Fragrance refresher?

[jean1C]

I read on the boards where someone suggested putting the soap bars in a box and adding a cotton ball with FO to help with a scent that has become weak. Anyone tried this?

I have some bars of soap(for personal use) that seemed to have lost their scent after only a few months. I don't know if it was the scent I used or if I underscented ( I weigh and use 1 oz PPO...so that is doubtful). Other soaps that I made around the same time smell great and were made/stored the same way.

Jean

 

[Relle]

It works give it a try.

 

[judymoody]

I've never tried this trick but it can't hurt.

Sometimes bars that seem to have lost their scent revive once you begin to use them and new surface area is revealed.

 

[dcornett]

I'll have to keep the cottonball in mind...interesting!

I have had the scent revive once you use the bar before.

 

[pamielynn]

I would think that *might* only refresh the surface of the soap. I don't see how it would penetrate the bar?

 

[jean1C]

I'll let y'all know. I cut the bar in half crosswise and it didn't seem to matter. Just don't feel the scent is there anymore. Right now I have 5 bars in a box with a cottonball. I didn't write things down and this was a "garage" soap with pumice/poppy seeds, so I am thinking I probably scented it only slightly as I didn't want it to be too perfumy,