scent remaining on skin

Saltysteele · Sep 6, 2009

the soaps i've made (the oldest is now about a week or 2 old now), while smelling delightful, don't really leave any fragrance on the skin.

while I don't mind this, my wife is comparing my soap to soap she's purchased at a local craft fair (how dare she!! :lol:

). the soap she purchased was a M&P soy soap, and the fragrance does stay on your skin like it does with, let's say, coast or irish spring (a perfuming-type soap).

what lends to the scent remaining on the skin? is it my soap? is it the type of soap/EO/FO?

just curious. i'm sure people that bought my soap (as it would seem even though i'm not selling any yet, my list of customers is building - what have i gotten myself into - have a hard time saying "no"

) would also like to have their skin smelling of lavender and sage, or whatever.

artisan soaps · Sep 6, 2009

ChrissyB · Sep 6, 2009

Some fragrance oils tend to stick better than others too, don't know why, just the way it is.
Green irish tweed is one of those ones that I can always smell on my skin.

carebear · Sep 6, 2009

Karma will stick - some notes are very tenacious. Most less so.

Guest · Sep 6, 2009

Sweet patchouli mixed with cedarwood sticks. Also pearberry sticks too. Depends where you get them though and how much you use.

Tabitha · Sep 6, 2009

It's hit or miss, and just because apple from supplier X remains, it does not mean pear from the supplier will remain. Nor does it means if vanilla from 1 supplier lasts, that vanila from all suppliers will last. It is all trial & error.

Guest · Sep 6, 2009

Some scents with vanilla stick IME .

wookie130 · Sep 6, 2009

I find that some lavenders will stay on the skin as well...

honor435 · Sep 6, 2009

ive made 75 batches(wow!), and the only ones ive found that stay on skin are wild mt honey(peak), black canyon(peak) lovespell(wsp). If you really love a scent buy some plain base lotion and add your fo to it! It stays on, millcreeks honey butter is awesome in lotion and scrub.

Saltysteele · Sep 6, 2009

thanks, honor!

i have actually been contemplating doing just that, but it's very overwhelming, having to choose a lotion/butter base.

first, i had to decide where to get the FO/EO, from the millions of places out there, and now to have to figure out which is the best lotion/butter? Oye!

Thank you for your recommendation!

Milla · Sep 6, 2009

Frankincense & Myrrh II (Lebermuth) definitely lingers on my husband's skin. It is a great scent.

Layering is the way to go for fragrances. I have lotions and solid perfume things I made. I just love smelling good!

honor435 · Sep 6, 2009

wholesalesuppliesplus has good lotion base, i bought a gal of satin/silk, i like it. they also have a sampler package,so you could try a little of all there lotions? They also have fos, although i have only tried one, so far. I like peakcandles for fos, or brambleberry has good fos and may have lotion? it IS overwhelming, ask people here, we all have our fav places for stuff! :lol:

Saltysteele · Sep 7, 2009

no kidding, there! :lol:

i actually just put in an order last night. I like the FO's I've gotten from them thus far, and there other stuff I've gotten has been really nice, as well.

Dang! wish i would have decided to do this before i placed the order. i don't want to pay shipping again.

for some reason, i always forget to check out peaks selection. i need to try them sometime, too

Rosey · Sep 7, 2009

the iced oatmeal cookie stays from WSP. The cucumber aloe one also does (can't remember where I got that one, either snowdrift or wsp) I made a eucalyptus, chamomille, lavender (i think, i'm tired) and it's really nice and sticks too.

dandelion · Sep 7, 2009

Tabitha said:
It's hit or miss, and just because apple from supplier X remains, it does not mean pear from the supplier will remain. Nor does it means if vanilla from 1 supplier lasts, that vanila from all suppliers will last. It is all trial & error.

I would agree, to date none of my BB fo's or eo's have lingered on the skin then I used an eo combo from another soaper and it stuck (he says he orders from Snowdrift Farms of which I am not familiar).

Guest · Sep 7, 2009

Scent staying on your skin isn't really a good thing if a person is going
to use a special perfume/aftershave.

I'm torn as to which way to go.

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