NEWBIE: Can you make your own fragrances for soaping?

[kyliecoast]

Can you take things like vanilla pods, cinnamon, fresh mint etc and add it to some olive oil and add that to your soap instead of using store-bought fragrance oils/essential oils?

 

[Marilyna]

Not if you want to be able to smell it.

 

[mel z]

There are many kinds of home distillers for making essential oils. They are all very expensive, with the exception of the microwave one, but still it is expensive. Much more trouble than it would be worth to me as I don't have a lot of free time, and you get so little oil out of the process. Youtube has some videos on them and how to use them, there you can see how little you will get for the effort.