I made the salt bars and everything behaved nicely. I think I was over prepared for a fast moving soap, but it didn't move fast for me. I soaped at room temp (80 degrees) I stick blended until medium trace and added the geranium and lavender eo blend and 70% pink himilayan salt. I then found that the salt kept sinking. So I hand stirred and stirred and stirred...still sinking. Then I stick blended until the salt stayed evenly distributed in the soap batter. I then poured the batter into single cavity molds and placed that into a makeshift heating pad "oven" to try to gel the bars; although, I don't know if they gelled because I never noticed a color change when I peeked on them. After about 2 hours the soaps were nice and hard and popped right out of the silicone mold. They are so pretty and girly; however, I ended up using 1/4 oz geranium eo and 1/4 oz lavender eo for a total of 1/2 oz of eo in 20 oz of oil. This amount of scent is too overpowering for me. For this reason I am considering rebatching but I don't want to mess up my darling little rosy smelling soaps. Any chance that the scent will mellow out as the soap ages?
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