Peeps, I want to make a soap using honey and colloidal oats. Any recommendations for an essential oil and/or blend? I'm thinking floral and/or fruity?
good blend for a honey & oat CP soap?
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I always vote fruity. Your post made me think of these tea bags I have that are Blueberry Citrus Basil that is delish with a touch of honey….. 
Orange patchouli. Fruity but warm and comforting too.
Apple and cinnamon
For that soap I use WSP's original Oatmeal Milk & Honey. And yes, it has colloidal oatmeal, goat milk and honey in it. It's very popular.
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That is a favorite of mine, also. The only trouble is that the soap turns light tan after the cure. If you don't mind discoloration, then this is my favorite.
This sounds great. I'm lovin' my recent lime patchouli. Question, do you use essential oils or fragrance oils? I use essential oils. The orange 10x is dark orange and the patchouli is dark brown. I may have to add a lot of titanium dioxide.
The patchouli I get from Camden Grey is dark brown but does not seem to discolor my soap. I mix it with lavender. The soap is an off white. I think I read in another post where you use EOs from Camden Grey.
I use essential oils for this blend, 2:1 orange 10x : patchouli. I haven't found the discoloration to be much, but the soap isn't white. Maybe split it in three and leave some uncolored, some with TD and some with cocoa powder?
Orange Patchouli is wonderful. I put colloidal oatmeal in all my soaps so I didn't think of that blend especially for oats and honey. Dark Patchouli EO helps a lot of soaps!
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Every bar of oat and honey I've seen for sale is clove scented. Not sure why but it seems popular. Maybe adding a touch to the patch and orange would be nice.
Zany_in_CO
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Not an EO/blend but may "stick" the scent if you come up with a compatible EO... in your spare time, of course. 
https://www.thesage.com/products/oatmeal-milk-honey-fragrance-oil
https://www.thesage.com/products/oatmeal-milk-honey-fragrance-oil
What about an orange patchouli blend with some cardamom? Or the Dusk blend in EO calc smells interesting in my mind.
Zany_in_CO
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https://www.eocalc.com/blends/dusk/
FWIW: I keep a dropper bottle of Cinnamon Clove on hand to spice up blends. A little goes a long way.
Mix 1 part Clove Bud EO + 3 parts Cinnamon Bark EO then add 1 part of this to your blend.
3 oz. Cinnamon Bark 85g
1 oz. Clove Bud 28g
4 oz. TOTAL 113g
28g 1 oz. Cinnamon
9g 0.3 oz. Clove
37g 1.3 oz. TOTAL
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Yum, I like this idea! I have benzoin and haven’t used it much.@Zing do you still have any benzoin that you've used for a vanilla scent? You could mix that with a smallish bit of patch and some cardamom and/or cinnamon for a bakery-type smell that would match what I think of with OMH, which is oatmeal cookies.
I totally love cardamom! I used it once in my early days of soaping when I may have added all of three drops of EO, and of course I couldn't smell it. That was before I realised how much fragrance you need to actually scent a batch of soap.
