I just love the bee soap! It is adorable! I appreciate your understanding HowieRoll. Like I told you, and I want everyone else to know, we try our best to keep in the confines of the rules we put forth. We, personally, have been in situations where rules are not enforced, and it was extremely frustrating. It was especially frustrating to us that were new soapers wanting to participate in something bigger and who wanted to be envolved in a soapy community.
That is why we hosts sometimes end up picking apart our rules to make sure everything fits within them. It is also why we scrutinize our rules down to the letter, and we always appreciate it when participants come to us concerned whether or not their soap qualifies.
As I told you before, I sincerely appreciate your understanding, I appreciate you coming to me immediately, and I hope the rest of the community that participates understands as well.
NOW
Onto the idea of low water...
Both of my challenge soaps were made with 40% lye concentration. I rarely, and I mean rarely, use higher water. I have grown to loathe higher water, in fact.
In lieu of the aforementioned fragrances that work in low water, I did a search for an old thread newbie and I posted on with good low water fragrances. I found the thread and copied our responses. Here are some good low water fragrances we recommended (for those interested).
For those unfamiliar with company acronyms, bb is brambleberry, wsp wholesale supplies plus, mo mad oils, fb fragrance buddy, ot Oregon trail soap supplies, ng natures garden etc...
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I like bb neroli Shea blossom, kumquat, lychee red tea I think it is, Summer fling A on me in low water, fresh snow behaves very well (if you like it, newbie can't stand it...love hate thing), BlackBerry sage went well, moonlight pomegranate clumps a little (ricing) and A, but smells good, champagne behaves, tobacco bay leaf though I don't think I used low water on it, i was able to do a butterfly swirl so behaves enough for that. Lavender forest is perfect.
OT fragrances in low water that behave, green Irish tweed, silver mountain water, but not made to measure, it says on the site it's a pale cream, no, it's a D to rich milk chocolate and A. Mysore sandalwood is supurb in low water.*
Fragrance buddy black cedarwood and juniper behaved well in low water, patchouli passion too.
Looking at my notes from previous soaps, here are more suggestions...
Almond from rustic escentuals worked in 40% lye, toffee sugar crunch from daystar, pomegranate black currant (from bb i think, can NOT remember, newbie would probably know) blended with earl grey from mad oils, black amber musk from wsp, oakmoss sandalwood did ok from wsp, be delicious blossom wsp, the perfect man from ng...
Several of those did happened to discolor unfortunately, but they did work in low water.
NEWBIES QUOTE (from the old thread)
I can tell you that Champagne, Blackberry Sage, Lemongrass, and Kumquat work well. Most Sandalwoods and straight Patchoulis work well. I think Espresso works well in low water.
(I *think* these are predominantly bb fos, but I am not certain.)
