Fargood
Active Member
I used essential oil Patchouli (rather than a fragrance oil) because I did HP. I used strawberry seeds as an exfoliant. I didn't do anything different with this soap. I used kaolin as a scent binder, along with my usual HP recipe.
I like to use at least one bar of all my soaps in the shower before I sell/give them away. My BFF asked me to make a patchouli soap for her, because she's hippie like that . I made the bar at the beginning of Dec 2018 and started using it in the shower about mid-Jan. Now that the bar is about 2/3 of the way used up, there is no scent. The soap smells like saponified HP batter right before you put the scent in and mold it. Basically, it smells like hot lard and oil. The Patchouli EO was from a regular (big) soap distributer that I use a lot. I won't post the name, because if I recall right, that's against forum rules.
Has anyone else experienced this with patchouli essential oil? Is it just not worth using in soap because of the quick fade? Or should I combine EO and FO to make the scent last longer?
I like to use at least one bar of all my soaps in the shower before I sell/give them away. My BFF asked me to make a patchouli soap for her, because she's hippie like that . I made the bar at the beginning of Dec 2018 and started using it in the shower about mid-Jan. Now that the bar is about 2/3 of the way used up, there is no scent. The soap smells like saponified HP batter right before you put the scent in and mold it. Basically, it smells like hot lard and oil. The Patchouli EO was from a regular (big) soap distributer that I use a lot. I won't post the name, because if I recall right, that's against forum rules.
Has anyone else experienced this with patchouli essential oil? Is it just not worth using in soap because of the quick fade? Or should I combine EO and FO to make the scent last longer?