Soap peeps,
I recently got an awesome gift of ravensara essential oil which I've never heard of and, Lord, it is wonderful, intoxicating, and transporting to exotic places! I searched this forum and Google but found little on usage rates. In general, when I make lotion bars I use essential oil at 1% of oil weight (eocalc in general uses 1% also). So I did 1% in my lotion bars (1/3 each of beeswax, jojoba oil, and mango butter) -- but the scent is very faint to none at all. Hit me up if you have a recommendation. Everything I read is that it's good for skin and hair so I'm thinking of re-melting the batch and upping it to 2 to 3%.
I recently got an awesome gift of ravensara essential oil which I've never heard of and, Lord, it is wonderful, intoxicating, and transporting to exotic places! I searched this forum and Google but found little on usage rates. In general, when I make lotion bars I use essential oil at 1% of oil weight (eocalc in general uses 1% also). So I did 1% in my lotion bars (1/3 each of beeswax, jojoba oil, and mango butter) -- but the scent is very faint to none at all. Hit me up if you have a recommendation. Everything I read is that it's good for skin and hair so I'm thinking of re-melting the batch and upping it to 2 to 3%.