nframe
Well-Known Member
I have had my worst soaping experience today. I made a nice recipe which I found on the forum:
Castor oil 6%
Coconut oil 27%
Apricot kernel oil 12%
Olive oil 35%
Mango butter 15%
Cocoa butter 5%
I added some sugar, salt, sodium lactate and vitamin E oil. Then I decided to add fragrance and I think this is what caused my problems. I added fennel EO, rose EO and sandalwood and rose FO in equal quantities. The whole thing seized up immediately. I had this happen to me before but this time it had what looked like lumps of a lighter colour in it. I was not sure if it was a false trace or a real fast trace so I decided to cook it and do HP. This was my first HP experience – very traumatic! The end result is very disappointing: coarse, flaky and not nice at all. I fail to understand how some people can like HP! Unless I am doing it badly of course, which is a real possibility. I would have read up about it beforehand if I had known.
Anyway, all this leads me to ask whether there are any EOs/FOs which do NOT accelerate trace – apart from lavender. My husband tells me just to use lavender from now on but this would be too boring. Surely there must be other FOs/EOs which behave! I am not sure where to look and would appreciate people's experiences on the subject. Thank you.
Castor oil 6%
Coconut oil 27%
Apricot kernel oil 12%
Olive oil 35%
Mango butter 15%
Cocoa butter 5%
I added some sugar, salt, sodium lactate and vitamin E oil. Then I decided to add fragrance and I think this is what caused my problems. I added fennel EO, rose EO and sandalwood and rose FO in equal quantities. The whole thing seized up immediately. I had this happen to me before but this time it had what looked like lumps of a lighter colour in it. I was not sure if it was a false trace or a real fast trace so I decided to cook it and do HP. This was my first HP experience – very traumatic! The end result is very disappointing: coarse, flaky and not nice at all. I fail to understand how some people can like HP! Unless I am doing it badly of course, which is a real possibility. I would have read up about it beforehand if I had known.
Anyway, all this leads me to ask whether there are any EOs/FOs which do NOT accelerate trace – apart from lavender. My husband tells me just to use lavender from now on but this would be too boring. Surely there must be other FOs/EOs which behave! I am not sure where to look and would appreciate people's experiences on the subject. Thank you.