PEAK - 40% off sampler packs

[judymoody]

Irena, my experience was pretty much the same as prairiecraft. I'd give it a go at 1% PPO and see what happens. Especially since you generally don't gel, it might be stronger for you. And for me, if it did discolor, it was very slight - a very light creamy/beige.

 

[judymoody]

The strawberry rhubarb has a plastic fakey smell to it in my soap. Really yucky.

I got this one as a free sample and it was the only one that I've gotten from Peak that I thought smelled awful OOB. I'm afraid to use it.

 

[scouter139]

Judy,
I wouldn't even try..it's not worth the soap unless you do a one bar batch or something small. I do a small batch and seperate it into plastic cups and then drop the fragrance in using a straw and then stir to mix. I make about 12 1 oz soaps to sample the fragrances. It has helped me alot not to waste the time and money on something I don't like. I now have about 60 little 1 oz soaps in little half plastic cups in all phases of curing. It allows me to see acceleration and discoloration and how the soap fragrance matures from days to weeks to months. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Here is one of my first sample batches...actually I think there are 2...I mark the cup with the name and maker, make a batch to light trace and have all my bottles already in order of the cups, with lids off and straws cut and I put 28 drops per 1 oz I think then mix well and note. Then I go onto the next...by the end of the batch it gets a little thicker but I can do 12 in about 5 minutes now. I used styrofoam but now use plastic cups. Actually, next time I'm looking for the little cups Agriffin used for her latte soaps.

 

[Jeanna8]

this might be a dumb ? but who is haveing the sale? I googled peak and nothing came up that said soap and fo's. Sorry kind of new here. Would like to get some great fo's that are on sale.

 

[Jeanna8]

I think I found the site peak candle supply

for bath and body fo's what do you guys think of these?
Wanted to ask before I click the pay button. If you can help me real quick.

Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 apple jack and peel
#2 cool citrus basil
#3 cucumber melon
#4 french vanilla and amber
#5 fruit slices
#6 georgia peach
#7 honeysuckle
#8 hyacinth
#9 sage and lemon grass
#10 twilight woods

Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 wild mountain honey
#2 vanilla passion
#3 sweet pea
#4 strawberry
#5 patchouli patchouli
#6 mango peach salsa
#7 mango papaya
#8 lavendar
#9 jasmine
#10 ginger passion blossom

 

[judymoody]

I think I found the site peak candle supply

for bath and body fo's what do you guys think of these?
Wanted to ask before I click the pay button. If you can help me real quick.

Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 apple jack and peel
#2 cool citrus basil
#3 cucumber melon
#4 french vanilla and amber
#5 fruit slices
#6 georgia peach
#7 honeysuckle
#8 hyacinth
#9 sage and lemon grass
#10 twilight woods

Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 wild mountain honey
#2 vanilla passion
#3 sweet pea
#4 strawberry
#5 patchouli patchouli
#6 mango peach salsa
#7 mango papaya
#8 lavendar
#9 jasmine
#10 ginger passion blossom

For reviews try here:

http://soapscentreview.obisoap.ca/index.php

And this wonderful spreadsheet generated by this forum:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... tswL#gid=0

I've used Apple Jack & Peel and loved it. The Wild Mountain Honey is also really good. I have a bunch of the ones you mention here but haven't soaped them yet.

 

[judymoody]

Judy,
I wouldn't even try..it's not worth the soap unless you do a one bar batch or something small. I do a small batch and seperate it into plastic cups and then drop the fragrance in using a straw and then stir to mix. I make about 12 1 oz soaps to sample the fragrances. It has helped me alot not to waste the time and money on something I don't like. I now have about 60 little 1 oz soaps in little half plastic cups in all phases of curing. It allows me to see acceleration and discoloration and how the soap fragrance matures from days to weeks to months. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Here is one of my first sample batches...actually I think there are 2...I mark the cup with the name and maker, make a batch to light trace and have all my bottles already in order of the cups, with lids off and straws cut and I put 28 drops per 1 oz I think then mix well and note. Then I go onto the next...by the end of the batch it gets a little thicker but I can do 12 in about 5 minutes now. I used styrofoam but now use plastic cups. Actually, next time I'm looking for the little cups Agriffin used for her latte soaps.

This is a great idea!!!! I will have to try it.

 

[PrairieCraft]

Scouter thanks for reminding me of this great way to sample FOs. I thought when you posted it last time that I should try it and then promptly forgot about it. :roll:

Jeanna8-
cucumber melon-not great in soap

twilight woods- great

wmh-nice

lavender-smells like laundry detergent-realized today that it also smells like the lavender in the yankee candle lavender vanilla. So I blended it with vanilla, just soaped it last night.

 

[soapbuddy]

Irena, my experience was pretty much the same as prairiecraft. I'd give it a go at 1% PPO and see what happens. Especially since you generally don't gel, it might be stronger for you. And for me, if it did discolor, it was very slight - a very light creamy/beige.

Ok, thank you.

 

[honor435]

lemon pound cake doesnt discolor, no need for stabilzer.
Paris twilight- major dis, so sad, it did look good!


Jeanna
mango salsa, I didnt like it smelled perfumey to me?
citris basil, very light use at least 1oz pp or more
french van amber- awesome, does acc and dis( very dark brown)

wild honey didnt discolor for me.

 

[honor435]

I bought two packs, I adore peak.
I have never used these: ocean, sandalwood, white lily amber, tuscan nights,mandarin plum, anyone like or dislike these????

 

[jcandleattic]

I bought two packs, I adore peak.
I have never used these: ocean, sandalwood, white lily amber, tuscan nights,mandarin plum, anyone like or dislike these????

LOVE the ocean scent and it's a perfect soap scent. It took me about 3 tries to get it to work right in my soap. I had hear others saying that it soaped great, but mine kept ricing and acc. on me until I finally got it right. I just had to soap a little cooler.
I need to find my notes on the mandarin plum... I can't remember it at all, and I haven't tried the rest. I did try Asian Sandalwood - not sure how it compares to the straight sandalwood, but the AS soaped like a dream and stayed true. (I still have about 4 bars that are well over 3 years old that still smell great!)

 

[PrairieCraft]

I have the mandarin plum and keep passing it over when pulling something out for a test batch. It smells nice but nothing special and so many of the peak FOs smell like they would be great in a candle but most don't have enough interest to me for soap. Like the ginger peach, smelled awesome oob but in soap it was just blah but I bet in a candle it would smell amazing. I have a few peak FOs that I don't want to use. I've made so many batches with an FO that smelled just ok to me, hoping it would be better in the soap and have been disappointed almost every time. So now if it doesn't grab me right away I'm not wasting the oils in it. If anyone is interested I have...

Mandarin Plum
Beach Daisies
Botanical Orchard and Nectar
HollyBerry and Ivy
Sugar Plum Berries
StormWatch
Jamaica Me Crazy
Moonlight Path
Strawberry Rhubarb

All 1oz all from Peak. Some of these I really like the smell of oob but just don't want soap out of. I'm not a fruity person so idk wth I was thinking when I ordered the fruity ones. I may have some more that I don't want . If there is anyone who would like to take all of these off my hands I will give them to you for $1 a piece, I would rather not have to go to the trouble of mailing only 1 out though. PM me if you want and I will check through my other peak FOs to see if I have anything else I could add to this list. I have some other FOs from DS, CS and TC that I will put up on a different thread.

 

[newbie]

I know someone else said the mandarin plum was nice and citrusy and had good staying power. I mixed mine with some neroli. It soaped well, but the scent isn't on my list for a re-do. However, I didn't soap it alone.

THe Lily Amber faded away and two months later isn't back, for me.

I have to say that I really dislike their Sandalwood, although others have said they love it. To me, it has an element in there that I've smelled in no other sandalwood, although I can't identify it. It's a very deep smell and although it's not anise, I don't think, I keep thinking of licorice or something when I smell it. Of course, it has had excellent staying power. And it did soap well. But I have to give it away soon- the smell is very bothersome to me.

I soaped Jamaica me Crazy, which also soaped well and I think it's fruity and fine, a touch sweet, but when I've put some out for people to pick from (my give-aways), I haven't had a single person pick it! And it's not that the soap itself is ugly. It just is constantly passed over and I'm not sure why. Others have people not like it?

 

[cwarren]

this is what I ordered
Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 f1004 Apple Jack & Peel
#2 f1005 Asian Sandalwood
#3 f1011 Blackberry Sage
#4 f1139 Cucumber Melon
#5 f1030 Coconut Banana Blast
#6 f1140 Coconut Lime Verbena
#7 f1031 Coconut Milk
#8 f1045 Freesia
#9 f1052 Fruit Slices
#10 f1056 Georgia Peach Shipped $11.97 1 $11.97
F1133 Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 f1064a Heather
#2 f1068a Honeysuckle
#3 f1072 Jamaica Me Crazy
#4 f1072 Jamaica Me Crazy
#5 f1076 Key Lime
#6 f1080 Love Spell
#7 f1080 Love Spell
#8 f1084 Mango Papaya
#9 f1088 Midsummer Night
#10 f1056 Georgia Peach Shipped $11.97 1 $11.97
F1133 Fragrance Sampler Pack: Choice of 10
#1 f1089 Moonlight Path
#2 f1149 Orange Blossom
#3 f1094 Orange
#4 f1156 Paris Twilight
#5 f1147 Passion Fruit & Guava
#6 f1110 Storm Watch
#7 f1098 Pink Sugar
#8 f1101 Purely Peppermint
#9 f1105 Sage & Lemongrass
#10 f1105 Sage & Lemongrass

 

[scouter139]

Honor,

Here is my picture of the bundt cake I made with Lemon Pound Cake, I can't believe yours doesn't discolor...or the wild mountain honey. If you don't want to list your ingredients on the board, would you pm me and tell me what you are using? Please?

 

[newbie]

I did the Wild Mountain honey and boy, did it discolor. One of the ugliest soaps I've made, so far. I also would love to know what people did that prevented that. Smells great,though!

 

[cerelife]

newbie, the wild mountain honey discolored to a medium tan for me...actually kind of looks like a solid block of honey since I gel. I add oatmeal and it's quite a pretty combination, and I love the smell. When I have soap overload and take some to work to give away, this is the first one my co-workers grab! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, lol.

 

[shteph]

Hi! I know I am a bit stupid...but i could't find those FOs in the website. I saw no shp on that http://www.lovinsoap.com/. could you pls give me adirect link to it, of help me find where i can order? thanks

 

[NancyRogers]

http://www.peakcandle.com/