Goat milk soap and vanilla essence oil???

[MsCleanCat]

I am about to cook up my first batch of soap this week. I will be following a step-by-step video from an experienced soap maker. However, she uses Oatmeal, Milk & Honey fragance during tracing, but I am interested in using Vanilla 5th Dark essential oil. Will it work on goat milk soap? Has anyone ever tried this recipe? Should I add the oil during tracing? I am a little nervous and need all the help I can get.

Thank you all in advance!

 

[Sunny]

I'm not sure what Vanilla Dark 5th essential oil is! I do know that vanilla absolute is extremely expensive (like $150 per ounce) and probably not affordable or practical for a new soaper to use (or anyone for that matter).. so what you have may be mixed with something or not an essential oil at all?

So while I can't answer your exact question, I would say that most fragrance oils and essential oils would be fine to use in place of another.

You should usually add fragrance or essential oils at trace. yep!

 

[Hazel]

I've used WSP's Vanilla Bean Noel in goat milk lotion and it smells wonderful. I decided to try it in CP but I didn't have goat milk so I used coconut milk. It came out fantastic smelling (but very brown ). Even the lather was brown - not pleasant looking.

So my opinion is that any vanilla is going to smell great in goat milk. I do recommend you use a vanilla stabilizer unless you really want brown soap.

I hope this helps you a little.