would these work together?

[CaliChan]

I was wanting to make a "Smokey water" soap and I was wanting to scent it with white thyme and Rosemary EOs
Do you guys think they would go well together?

 

[lsg]

White thyme and rosemary are supposed to blend well together, however they are both have very strong scents, so I would go easy on them. Black tea f.o. has a somewhat smokey scent.

 

[CaliChan]

Thank you

 

[lizflowers42]

Unrefined shea butter certainly has a smokey smell! Wonder if it holds up through the lye monster though.

 

[houseofwool]

Nope, the smell of unrefined Shea doesn't make it through.

 

[Serenity]

I'm not sure what you mean by smokey water but I imagine this blend would have quite a medicinal smell. They're both strong anti-bacterial oils too. Just put a drop of each onto a cotton wool ball and see how it smells.

I made a rosemary and tea tree soap at 0.8oz ppo (I don't know why I did it that strong) and the day after I made it I thought I'd made a terrible mistake as it smelt disgusting and was very strong. However, now that it's cured it's faded to a nice strength and smells okay, although it still has that medicinal smell. It was for a mechanics' soap so I figured that anti-bacterial oils would be appropriate. You may want to try it at 0.7oz ppo.

 

[CaliChan]

"Smokey water" to me represents an Indian sweat lodge.
After my good friend died I went to several sweats for a spiritual cleanse. And when your in the sweet lodge your sitting in a circle around a deep pit dug in the ground that is filled with rocks that have been in a fire for a long time and durrig the sweat they throw herbs (rose marry, sage, thyme, lavender, etc. ) and periodically throw water over the rocks and it steams up.