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Feb

Cold Process Soap Making Supplies

Deborah Ward February 28, 2020
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Cold Process Soap Making Supplies

We at Natures Garden would like to share with you the supplies and materials needed when making cold process soap! We know that the majority of our customers are familiar with the soap and candle making industries. However, we think that it is important to provide educational blogs, videos, and recipes for beginners and anyone looking to learn or expand their knowledge. There are many different classes and recipes on our website that help guide our customers when making homemade projects. One of the main topics that these center around is cold process soap. We will dive into the process, some of our classes, and mention multiple recipes we have. Let’s get started!

Cold Process Soap

In general, soap crafters consider cold process soap to be one of the most common methods for soap making. This method has been termed “cold process” because there is no outside heating source applied to initiate the process of saponification. Hot process soap uses different types of heating sources, such as the stove or a crock pot. On the other hand, in cold process soap, the lye mixture creates heat and saponifies the oils by itself. The lack of a heat source unfortunately means that this type of soap will take a lot longer to cure. The typical curing time for cold process soap is between 4 and 6 weeks. Although lengthy, this curing time is necessary to allow the soap to harden. The longer cure time will also help your soap to be more tolerable on the skin.

After creating your soap, you can decide whether or not you want to insulate it. A lot of the research we read suggests insulating, but it is mostly up to your personal preference. We have written a blog in the past about how you can insulate soap to promote gel phase. After pouring the soap into your mold, surround it with layers of towels or blankets. The layers will absorb the heat while your soap undergoes saponification. This process is the gel phase, where the fats in your soap become hardened. The key to this process is evenly heating the soap in order to prevent a partial gel from occurring. If you insulate, it will accelerate saponification and the finished look will look slightly shiny. By deciding to put your soap in the fridge instead, saponification will slow down and the finish will look more matte.

Ingredients in Cold Process Soap: Lye

Now that we have discussed the process of insulation, we should mention ingredients that are important for cp soap. In order to get your bars of soap to turn out correctly, measuring the ingredients to a tee is very important. Starting with the main ingredient, sodium hydroxide, which is also known as lye. This is completely necessary to make cold process soap. Lye is an emulsifier, which allows oils and butters to mix with water and make soap. Without it, these ingredients would not mix which would prevent any soap being made. By adding too much lye, it can result in your soap having a higher PH level, which may end up causing burns and irritation to the skin. On the other hand, if the lye is not balanced properly with the oils, it can interfere with the reaction, which can lead to greasy and oily bars of soap.

Ingredients in Cold Process Soap: Oils

Palm oil, coconut oil, and olive oil pomace are all commonly used when making cold process soap. They contribute different qualities to your soap depending on their main properties. We have a chart on our website that breaks down the soaping oil properties for each type of oil. The properties we looked at are hardness, cleansing, conditioning level, bubbly lather, creamy lather, and sap value. Also included in the chart is some miscellaneous information to provide you with more knowledge about each of the oils. Palm oil is high in its hardness, conditioning, and creamy lathering elements. Coconut oil contributes to hardness, cleansing quality, and bubbly lather. Olive oil pomace is very high in conditioning, which is definitely an ideal quality for soap. The combination of these three oils would create a soap that cleanses thoroughly, lathers nicely, and is gentle on the skin all at the same time.

Ingredients in Cold Process Soap: Colorants

Some other ingredients that are commonly added to cold process soap are FUN soap colorants, soap dyes, and mica pigments. We have many different color options to choose from in colorants, dyes, and beautiful diamond dust and 24K gold micas. When it comes to adding colorants or pigments, some may cause color morphing, which could affect the appearance aspect of your soap. To save yourself the frustration of ruining a batch of soap that discolors to something you do not like, you can test this out before hand. This can be done by taking a small amount of soap dye or mica pigment and adding it to a little of the lye mixture. You will be able to see your results quickly.

Cold Process Soap Testing

We have taken the time to test each of our fragrance oils in cold process soap. This way, our customers are able to see the results before they decide to use them. When we tested them, we were specifically looking for acceleration, discoloration, ricing, separation, and scent retention. We have the results for each of them on the website in video form as well as a chart. These videos can be found when you search by the individual fragrance oils. Over 300 of them did not cause any discoloration. A few included in these are the Aromatherapy Energizing, Blueberry, Egyptian Musk, and Magnolia. Some of the ones that caused discoloration include Absinthe, Blue Cotton Candy, Cream Soda, and Pomegranate Cider. If you would like to see the rest of the criteria we tested like ricing and separation for each fragrance, use our soap testing results chart to find out!

Cold Process Soap Class 101

We have a couple of classes on the website that are good for beginner soap makers. The first one is our Cold Process Soap Class 101. It is easy to follow along with this class, but you will need to get your ingredients ahead of time. As we mentioned before, the most important one you need to create cold process soap is lye. You will also need distilled water, vinegar, some soaping oils, a fragrance oil that is body safe, and colorant(s) that are body safe. There is plenty of equipment you will need to safely make cold process soap, a list of which can be found in our Soaping 101 Class.

Doing your research before making cold process soap for the first time is extremely important. For example, if you have never worked with lye before, you will need to learn about it before hand. Your top priority when making soap should be practicing proper safety because accidents may happen if precautions are not taken. Another thing when it comes to lye is that it cannot be stored in or combined with any containers or other products that are made out of aluminum or tin. The reason for this is that the combination will cause a violent reaction. For these reasons, we implore you to use the safety gear that is provided by Natures Garden including safety goggles, a safety mask, and gloves. One last thing to remember is that the materials and equipment used when making soap should never be used for food again. By keeping these steps in mind and being cautious, making soap can be both easy and fun!

Beginners Cold Process Soap Recipe

Another one of our cold process classes for beginners makes an easy to follow cold process soap recipe. This is the perfect recipe to start with if you have no experience making this type of soap. Natures Garden sells each of the items featured in this recipe. This makes it possible and convenient to get your products from a single source. This soap uses Rain Barrel Fragrance Oil which is a fragrance oil that is original to this company! It has notes of leafy greens balanced with lavender, cedar, musk, highlights of lemon, and fresh water. You will also need some pieces of equipment including a thermometer, a stainless steel mitre box with a cutter, and disposable pipettes. Also remember to always use your safety glasses, gloves, and a mask when preparing your recipes.

Thirty Free Cold Process Soap Recipes

For a blog that we wrote in the past, we created a list of thirty cold process soap recipes. Many of the homemade recipes on our website are for melt and pour soap and cold process soap. We want to share with you some of our favorites for you to try out for yourself! In this list of thirty, we have our Hot Fudge Brownies CP Soap, Caramel Custard Soap, Energized CP Soap, and Peppered Poppy Seed CP Soap. The ones in this compiled list are fun and easy recipes to create, are homemade and original to us. The two classes that we mentioned above are sure to help you get started on making your cold process soap.

Bastille Cold Process Soap Recipe

One specific type of soap that you can make is called bastille. The term “bastille” commonly refers to a type of cold process soap but it can also be made as a hot process soap. There is a very high percentage of olive oil in this soap, 70% or more. We like and prefer to use olive oil pomace in many of our recipes, in addition to other types of oils. Olive oil will increase the lathering quality of your soap and helps it to cure faster. We want to share this recipe for Bastille Soap from Natures Garden, which will make about three pounds of soap. It is an easy to follow recipe and can be made into your own by adding in a soap colorant or mica pigment!

More with Cold Process Soap

If you would like a more in depth description of making this type of soap, check out this blog page about The Cold Process Method to Make Soap. This recipe comes from a business called The Spruce Crafts and was written by David Fisher. This page walks you through a step by step tutorial on how to make your own cold process soap. He explains the ingredients and equipment you will need, how to create your soap mixture, and allowing it to set up and complete saponification. This is another great source you can use in order to learn more about cold process soap!

Natures Garden is not responsible for the performance of any of the recipes provided on our website. Testing is always the responsibility of our customers. If you plan to resell any of the recipes that we provide, it is also your responsibility to follow all FDA regulations. For any products and ingredients listed in recipes that are not sold by Natures Garden, we can not offer advice on where they can be purchased. When you use Natures Garden recipes and/or raw ingredients, you are agreeing to indemnify Natures Garden against any liability of performance, any lack of performance, or any problems that you encounter with the finished products..

Jun

Soap Making Terms

Soap Making Terms

If you want to learn about different soaping methods and get help for potential problems, then it helps to know common soap making terms. Whether you are a beginner or experienced, you are likely to come across something new with your batches at least once. So, we are here to help you understand what to do and how to solve any soap-making issues.

Soap Making Terms: How Much Fragrance Oil Can I Add to Soap?

While you should always check the usage rate for each individual fragrance, the maximum that we recommend is 5%. Sometimes you can a scent where the IFRA sheet allows more and you can do more if you’d like. After you know the usage rate, you just need to do some simple multiplication to figure out how much scent you need.

Formula: Weight of Soap x Usage Rate = Weight of Fragrance Oil
Example: 912 grams of soap x 0.05 (which is a 5% usage rate) = 45.6 grams of fragrance

Soap Making Terms: Why Did My Soap Turn Brown?

Often fragrance oils that contains a high amount of Vaniilin will turn soap brown. Also, the color will be a darker brown with scented oils with higher amounts of Vanillin. We can use Vanilla White Color Stabilizer to reduce these effects and still use the scent. Since this ingredient is added to provide a vanilla scent, strong vanilla fragrance oils will almost always turn soap brown without the color stabilizer.

Soap Making Terms: Can I Use Essential Oils in Soap Making?

Yes, essential oils can be used to scent soap. We find that essential oils hold up better in MP soap than in soap made from scratch. This is because the saponification process can cook off the essential oil, which doesn’t have middle notes to anchor the scent. You may have some scent after the soaps cure, but it won’t be as strong as it is in MP soap.

Soap Making Terms: How Much Essential Oil Can I Use in Soap?

This can be different for each essential oil, so you will need to check the IFRA sheet for the usage rate. Then, you can figure out how much you need using the same method as you would for fragrance oils.

Soap Making Terms: How Do You Make Soap White?

You can add titanium dioxide to soaps to make them white. In fact, many of our white soap bases use this ingredient. If you wanted, you could use this ingredient to turn your clear soaps to white.

Soap Making Terms: What is Melt and Pour Soap Making?

Another option for soap making is melt and pour soap. This method starts with a soap base that has already gone through the saponification process. So, you cut need to cut and melt the amount your need before you are ready to add colorants, fragrance, or herbs. Then, you can pour the melted soap into a mold and spray the top with rubbing alcohol. As soon as the soap is hardened, it is ready to use!

Soap Making Terms: How Much Melt and Pour Soap Will I Need for My Mold?

For each ounce by volume in your mold you will need 31 grams of soap. Say the soap mold will hold 16 ounces, you will need 496 grams of soap

Formula: Constant Value for Soap Needed to Fill Mold x Volume of Mold = Weight of Soap
Example: 31 grams per ounce x 16 ounce mold = 196 grams of MP soap

Soap Making Terms: How Long Should Melt and Pour Soap Stay in the Mold?

This can vary based on the size of soap you are creating. Smaller soaps will take less time compared to bigger soaps. Just make sure that they are hardened all the way before you remove them. Also, you should be able to feel that the mold is no longer warm to touch.

Soap Making Terms: How Do I Get My Melt and Pour Soap Out of the Mold?

While you should be able to hold your molds upside down and lightly push, sometimes they get stuck. If you place your soaps in the refrigerator for a short amount of time, this should make it easier for you to remove your mp soap.

Soap Making Terms: How Do I Get Fingerprints Off My Melt and Pour Soap?

Sometimes when you are removing your soaps from the mold, you can transfer a fingerprint. Just use some rubbing alcohol to dampen a cotton swab and gently swab the fingerprint. It should begin to fade as you do this.

Soap Making Terms: Can Melt and Pour Soap Be Used Right Away?

Of course! The saponification process is already complete before you get your soap base. So, there is no active lye to worry about. This means that you can use your soaps as soon as they harden.

Soap Making Terms: Why Is My Melt and Pour Soap Sweating?

There are a few reasons why your soap would sweat. First, it could be due to adding too much oil. Whether it is fragrance oil or carrier oil, the soap can only hold on to so much before the oil begins to leak out to create beads on the surface. More often, it is due to the soap drawing moisture from the air. Since your soap base uses vegetable glycerin, a humectant, it will draw moisture to it. Although this is great for you skin, it can lead to your soap sweating . However, you can prevent the latter by wrapping your soap as soon as it comes out of the mold. This way it can’t pull moisture from the air.

Soap Making Terms: What is Hot Process Soap Making?

Another way to make soap from scratch is hot process soap. This process is very similar to cold process soapmaking. However, in this method you will have a heat source to speed up the saponification process. You can use a crock pot or stove top to heat your soap mixture. After, you can technically use the bars immediately. However, letting them cure a week will provide you with harder, milder bars.

Soap Making Terms: Does Natures Garden Offer Any Hot Process Soap Recipes with Shea Butter?

Yes, we have a few! For example, we have our Manly Soap Recipe, the Beard Soap Recipe, and more that you can find under the Hot Process Soap Recipes page!

Soap Making Terms: How Long Do You Have to Wait to Use Hot Process Soap?

Yes. Although you don’t have to wait as long for your soaps to cure, there is still some lye left that needs to react. Typically, you will need to wait 1-2 week(s) before using your hp soap.

Soap Making Terms: What Does Rebatch Mean?

If you want to redo a soap batch or add more ingredients, then this is a great idea for you! It is common to rebatch to correct issues like seizing or forgotten ingredients. Also, this can be done to add ingredients that wouldn’t react well during the saponification process, like natural exfoliates or essential oils. First, take the soaps that you aren’t necessarily pleased with and grate them into pieces. Place these pieces in a crock pot and melt them with milk, water, or another liquid to prevent scotching. Also, add any additional oils that you want in these soaps. Allow you batch to reheat for one hour at which point it will by thick. After, add the color, scent, and herbs before scooping this soap into a mold.

Soap Making Terms: What is Cold Process Soap Making?

This process is one of a few that are refereed to as making soap from scratch because in uses water, lye, and oils to create bars of soap. Another key characteristic of this method is that you don’t need outside heat, as the lye provide enough heat for saponification. Once trace occurs, you are able to add colorants, scented oils, and herbs can be added at this point. After 24 hours, you can remove the soap from the mold and cut. However, you must let your soap cure for a period of 4-6 weeks.

Soap Making Terms: What is Lye in Soap Making?

Lye is a caustic base that is a key component for soap, as it drives the saponification process. It is sometimes referred to as sodium hydroxide for bar soaps and potassium hydroxide for liquid soaps.

Soap Making Terms: What Does Saponification Mean?

This is the process of lye reacting with the oils/fats/butters to produce soap. Saponification will produce both the soap and the glycerin in the soap.

Soap Making Terms: What Does Cure Time Mean?

Cure time is the period where the soap finishes the soaponification process until there is no more active lye present in the bars.

Soap Making Terms: What Does the Term Trace Mean in Soap Making?

In soaping, trace is when the lye water and the oils/butters have been fully combined. You will know that you’ve hit trace because the batter will thicken to a pudding-like consistency. Also, you can check to see whether you are at trace by using a spatula to “trace” a line of soap in the batter. You will notice that the line will not immediately disappear and you can see a trace of the soap you drizzled in.

Soap Making Terms: What Does Light Trace Mean in Soap Making?

Light trace is the point right before your soap comes to trace. You will begin to see a trace, but it won’t stay for more than a few seconds. So, the batter is about to hit trace where it will be thick enough to see the soap for a bit longer.

Soap Making Terms: How Long Does It Take for Soap Batter to Get to Trace?

The time is takes to get to trace will vary between batches for a number of reasons. The ingredients in a recipe can lead to different times. Also, fragrance oils and some soap additives can accelerate or slow trace in your batch.

Soap Making Terms: What Does Seize Mean in Soap Making?

If your soap seizes, then it means that your soap has gone through saponification enough that the batter is beginning to turn from liquid to solid. While this isn’t bad on its own, it makes it impossible to pour soap that is still in the bowl. This hardening soap that hasn’t yet made it to the mold will be too thick to mix and, at best, will be chunky in the mold.

Soap Making Terms: Why Do I Have Lye Pockets in My Cold Process Soap?

If you use too much lye in your soap recipe, then you can
Lye pockets can form in cold process soap most often when too much lye is used. However, it could also be a recipe that wasn’t properly formulated, an oil was left out, the soap seized, or even when the lye solution was not fully mixed. If the lye was not completely saponified you can always rebatch the soap and hot process the soap adding additional oil. Also, it is possible that it could be used in recipes such as laundry soaps that can utilize soap with a higher pH level.

Soap Making Terms: Can I Change the Soap Making Recipes?

Unlike many other bath and body recipes, you can’t simply swap out oils in the Natures Garden formulated recipe. Each oil has a certain saponification value that determines how much lye it will react with. So, switching an oil could result in your batch being lye heavy. Even if you wait longer to cure, there won’t be enough oils to react with the lye and the bars will irritate the skin or even cause burning. Instead, use SoapCalc to determine what you would have to change to get the recipe that you want!

Soap Making Terms: Reach Out to Us

If you have any other questions or concerns about soapmaking, then please reach out to us! One easy way to ask us something is on social media. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Have fun soaping!

Sep

How to Make Soap White

How to Make Soap White

Homemade soap making is the perfect way to show off your creativity. While appearance isn’t everything in a bar of soap, it certainly is important. Sometimes the discoloration of your soap bar just doesn’t match the aroma and there may seem like there is nothing you can do to stop it. Or, you may just be trying to get your soap to be pure white, as no discoloration doesn’t mean that you will get a pure white bar of soap. In fact, uncolored and unscented cold process soap is naturally an off white hue. But, there are a few additives that you could use in certain situations to attempt to achieve the perfect white color for your soap bars. All you need to do is learn how to make soap white and we at Natures Garden would like to help you at as much as we possibly can!

How to Make Soap White Soap Making Options

We have three simple options for our lovely soap-makers that desire a whiter bar of soap. While there is no way to prevent discoloration in all cases, there are some options that you have for your soapmaking. First, we have the Vanilla White Color Stabilizer. This is a product that will actually prevent discoloration from fragrance. However, this ingredient is really only good for preventing fragrances with a vanillin content from discoloring. So, this additive will not always work to completely banish discoloration and may not work at all on some fragrances. Next, we have two types of titanium dioxide. While these ingredients are designed to change the appearance of the natural color of soaps. However, these additives will not prevent any fragrance discoloration. This ingredient is simply for turning the off white bars into a pure white hue.

How to Make Soap White Vanilla White Color Stabilizer

One easy method that you can use to whiten your cold process soaps is to add in our Vanilla White Color Stabilizer! While this ingredient can’t completely whiten all kinds of discoloration, this product can strongly reduce certain types of discoloration. So, it is important to know exactly when to add this product. This ingredient will reduce the discoloration that is caused by vanillin. Also, this product will slow down this ingredient’s ability to oxidize, which would cause browning in the soap. If the fragrance oil contains vanillin or components that will oxidize, then adding this ingredient will absolutely be helpful!

How to Make Soap White Why Use Vanilla White Color Stabilizer

As a soap maker, it is important to know how to deal with discoloration. While many great aromas that don’t cause any discoloration, there are some fragrance oils with wonderful scents that just don’t perform exactly how you want. It can be heartbreaking to discover a gorgeous scent that just discolors too much. What is worse is when the discoloration doesn’t pair well with the aroma. This always happens with scents that have heavy vanilla notes. These fragrance oils often end up extremely dark, but smelling like a pure white vanilla dream! However, you can prevent it with Vanilla White Color Stabilizer. So, don’t give up on your favorite vanilla soap scents just yet.

How to Make Soap White Vanilla Fragrance Oils

While there are definitely some types of discoloration that Vanilla White Color Stabilizer can’t help with, this product is perfect for reducing discoloration from vanillin. This ingredient is what creates the vanilla aroma that we all know and love! This means that this color stabilizing agent is perfect for vanilla fragrances, and any fragrance that has a vanillin content. So, darker shades of soaps that are caused by vanilla fragrance oils can be tackled by this product. Although it is possible for a fragrance oil to have other discoloring agents, the Vanilla White Color Stabilizer is great for whitening discoloration due to vanillin. So, you should add this ingredient when the vanillin content is above 1% to prevent discoloration.

How to Make Soap White Oxidation Impact on Color

Over time, certain ingredients in the fragrance oil may begin to oxidize. While this is just a natural reaction some ingredients, like vanillin, have with the air, this could lead to a change in the color of your homemade soaps. Oxidation has the potential to cause a darker color for your soap, so you could potentially have discoloration after the soap has been created. Although Vanilla White Color Stabilizer can’t completely prevent this reaction from occurring, it is perfect if you would like to slow down this natural process. Thus, you can delay this discoloration and, if you use your bars quick enough, may never even have to see it!

How to Make Soap White Impact on Scent

Since you are attempting to save this fragrance oil for your soap making, you don’t want anything impacting the scent. Luckily, vanilla white color stabilizer can reduce discoloration without negatively impacting the fragrance oil that you enjoy. Although the aroma of this product is strong out of the bottle, the scent is completely unnoticeable in the finished soaps. So, you won’t smell a thing in your soaps! This means you can have the appearance in your soap that you want without sacrificing the integrity of this fragrance oil’s scent.

How to Make Soap White Using the Whitener

Now, you know exactly how Vanilla White Color Stabilizer will work in your soap! All you have left to do is to learn how you can incorporate the color stabilizer into your soap making. While it is not super difficult, you need to know what you are doing to make sure that the ingredient is actually incorporated. So, make sure to add this ingredient to aqueous bases as it is designed to stabilize water based formulas. This is because the vanilla white stabilizer can’t be added to the oils until the saponification process.

How to Make Soap White How We Use Vanilla White Color Stabilizer

If you’d like to see exactly how this whitener product works, then check out our amazing Peppermint Fluff Soap Recipe! This is a quality soap recipe that required the base of the soap bar to be pure white hue. Otherwise, the design on our soap wouldn’t look like a peppermint! So, the soap had to be red and pure white. However, this soap uses a fragrance with a vanillin content. In fact, the Peppermint Fluff Fragrance Oil includes a 6% vanillin content. So, we needed something to help with the inevitable discoloration. Otherwise, we would have ended up with a brown and red bar of soap that really wouldn’t look like a peppermint at all. Instead, we used this ingredient and created the soap you see to the left!

How to Make Soap White Titanium Dioxide Water Soluble

Also, you have another perfect option for making homemade white soaps. You can use Titanium Dioxide to create a whiter bar of cp soap. While this ingredient won’t reduce discoloration that is caused by some fragrance oils, it is perfect for whitening. If you have a bar with light or no discoloration, then you can add this powdered colorant to create a whiter bar. Instead of the typical off white soap color, the Titanium Dioxide will create a more pure white color in your bars. Thus, you can have decorative soaps with a pure white hue. Also, you will be able to still use your personal cold process soaping recipe.

How to Make Soap White Amount to Add

First, it is very important for you to know how much titanium dioxide that you can add to your homemade soaps. While this whitening powder is perfect for soap making, you don’t want to add too much of this product to your soap. However, not adding enough of this product could leave you with a bar that isn’t as white as you would like your soaps to be. So, we would suggest for you to include no more than a single teaspoon per pound of soap colored. All you need to do is add the right amount of this whitening product to your soaps!

How to Make Soap White Using the Water Soluble Titanium Dioxide

Next, you need to learn how this ingredient needs to be used. Since this ingredient is water based, it needs to be added to the lye water solution. This means that you will have to add this white pigment to your whole soap bar. So, the water soluble version of Titanium Dioxide is perfect for coloring an entire bar of cold process soap. Then, you can combine your water and oils perfectly to create a whiter bar of soap. Although you can separate some of this white soap to color with soap dyes, the titanium dioxide won’t impact the color.

How to Make Soap White Titanium Dioxide Oil Dispersible

Alternatively, you can use a different type of Titanium Dioxide to create your soaps. This ingredient is perfect for whitening smaller portions of your cold process soap. This version of Titanium Dioxide will perform similarly to the water soluble version. Thus, both act as a whitening pigment for the uncolored portions of the soap. Again, this ingredient won’t fix any discoloration caused by fragrance oils. This is because this additive is designed to alter the color of natural soaps to a more pure white. The only difference between the Oil Dispersible Titanium Dioxide and the Water Soluble Titanium Dioxide is how it is incorporated into the soap.

How to Make Soap White Using the Oil Dispersible Titanium Dioxide

Now, all you need is to learn how to use this product in your soap making process! Since this ingredient is oil based, you need to add titanium dioxide to the oil portion of your soaps. So, you’ll need to take a bit of your cosmetic oils and mix your powdered pigment together. Then, you will need to mix up your soap batch. Afterwards, separate out the portion of soap that you’d like to be whitened. Then, mix together the separated portion and the titanium dioxide to create the perfect white color for your soap design.

How to Make Soap White How We Use Titanium Dioxide Oil Dispersible

Finally, take a peek at how we like to use titanium dioxide in our very own soap making recipes. The Sweet Orange Chili Pepper Cold Process Soap Recipe is one example where adding this ingredient is perfect for creating perfect designs. This soap recipe incorporates a perfect in-the-pot swirl with vibrant red, pure white, and gorgeous orange colors. Note that the white portion of this swirl is even whiter than the normal hue of cold process soap. Luckily, this fragrance oil causes no discoloration in homemade soap! This means that adding titanium dioxide is a perfect option for creating a pure white section in your soap.

How to Make Soap White Colorant Options

Now that you have whiter bars of soap, let’s talk about soap making colorants! You could add some fun colorants to your soaps that include some Vanilla White Color Stabilizer. Now that you prevented the discoloration, you are able to add any colors that you would like! Also, you are going to need some fun colors to go along with your newly whitened bars of soap. If you would like to explore your soap coloring options, then check out our various Soap Colorants. These would be perfect to add to your newly whitened bars.

How to Make Soap White Share Your Creations

Hopefully, you learned a bit about how to control the color of your handmade soaps. Whether you have discoloration issues or want a whiter bar of soap, using additives can be helpful for some of your soaping issues. Now, you are prepared to create all kinds of fun soap designs. If you would like to share any of your soaping successes, then share pictures or your story on either our Facebook or Instagram pages! We would love to see your homemade creations!

Jun

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils

We would like to present the Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils available at Natures Garden! These fragrances are the most amazing vanilla scents we have ever come across and we just have to share! Any of these aromas would be perfect for creating strongly scented candles, the most fragrant soaps, long lasting vanilla perfume, and many more fantastic homemade products! If fact, we have so many vanilla varieties you would think you were at the Vanilla Festival!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Tahitian Vanilla Fragrance Oil

Our first vanilla aroma is the Tahitian Vanilla Fragrance Oil. If you enjoy sweet vanilla aromas, then your are going to love this fragrant oil! This fragrance oil by Natures Garden has the aroma of a creamy, caramel, fruity vanilla that is perfect for scenting your homemade creations!

First, you can use this vanilla aroma to create a long lasting scent in soap, as the fragrance is retained very well. Plus, there is no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. While there is discoloration in many vanilla scents, you can use Vanilla White Color Stabilizer to reduce this color change. Although this is not guaranteed to provide you with an entirely white bar, it will reduce all the discoloration that is caused by vanillin, which produces a vanilla aroma. So, high content vanilla scents such as this will reduce in discoloration significantly.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Tahitian Vanilla Fragrance Oil Candle

When using our lovely Tahitian Vanilla Fragrance Oil in scented candles, we suggest leaving the candle wax pure white. Since this fragrance oil has a strong vanilla scent

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils NG Vanilla Lace and Pearls Type Fragrance Oil

This gorgeous fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a blend of French vanilla with African vanilla on a dry down of sweet flower and musk. You will love this aroma in your handmade crafts. Plus, this aroma is one of our best selling fragrance oils!

Further, you can use this lovely aroma to scent your handmade soaps! This fragrance performs fairly well with no ricing and no separation. Plus, the fragrance will be strong in your cured soaps!

The NG Vanilla Lace and Pearls Type Fragrance Oil is a beautiful scent with strong vanilla notes that are perfect for scented candle making. Also, we suggest adding no color to this candle as it is will have a lovely vanilla aroma.

Also, you could use this scent to create the V anilla Liquid Potpourri Recipe! If you are looking for new things to put in your wax warmer, then this room scenting craft is a perfect choice for you!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils NG Vanilla Sandalwood Type Fragrance Oil

Next, we have the unique NG Vanilla Sandalwood Type Fragrance Oil! The beautiful fragrance is the combination of luscious, rich vanilla, and earthy Indian sandalwood. So, try out this unique vanilla aroma in your scented products!

First, you can use this aroma in your cp soap. This scent performs well all throughout the soaping process! There is no acceleration, no separation, and no ricing. Further, the scent remains strong in your soap! While the soap discolors, which is expected for vanilla scents, you can use vanilla color stabilizer to correct this minor issue.

Additionally, you can use this fragrance perfectly to create your own scented candles! We think that this scent would go very well with a light tan tinted candle, so add two drops of brown with a drop of yellow liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of a brown and yellow color blocks into your melted wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils NG Warm Vanilla and Sugar Type Fragrance Oil

The NG Warm Vanilla & Sugar Type Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden is a warm vanilla aroma with a musky back note. Additionally, this aroma is a best seller!

This warm scent is perfect for creating lovely handmade soap! There is no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Plus, the discoloration for this vanilla aroma is very slight! Further, the scent retention for this fragrance is good!

We recommend creating a light colored candle for this warm vanilla scent. So, add in a tiny bit of yellow liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded yellow color block per four pounds of wax.

Next, check out our fun Vanilla Sugar Scrub Cubes Recipe! These individual use sugar scrubs were made to resemble real sugar cubes, as inspired by the vanilla and sugar fragrance oil. Plus, this recipe has real vanilla power added along with the nourishing butters and oils. Truly, this is an amazing recipe!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils NG Coconut Vanilla Type Fragrance Oil

Now, take a look at our NG Coconut Vanilla Type Fragrance Oil. You can compare this fragrance oil by Natures Garden to a popular name brand coconut vanilla. But, our coconut vanilla fragrance begins with top notes of coconut, cream, and sugar that is followed by middle notes of rose and lily of the valley and finishes off with base notes of cedarwood and vanilla. This aroma is delicious and perfect for making your own room scents!

This fragrance oil is perfect for creating simple and beautiful scented candles! We suggest using no color in candles that include this strong vanilla aroma, as we find that a white candle would pair best.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils NG Vanilla Lavender Type Fragrance Oil

Also, we have our NG Vanilla Lavender Type Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden. This fragrance oil has a relaxing and tranquil scent that is truly unique and memorable. It is a well-rounded combination of fresh lavender, fresh vanilla beans, with orange zests and patchouli.

Plus, this vanilla scent is perfect for making soap from scratch! There is no ricing, no acceleration, and no separation. The discoloration is not super dark and the scent remains strong in the cured soaps. Obviously, this vanilla fragrance oil is a perfect scent!

Further, this aroma is gorgeous in homemade candles! This unique blend of two adored aromas is perfect for crafting. Also, we suggest using a drop purple liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded purple color block per four pounds of wax in this candle.

Further, this fragrance is a perfect fit for the Delicate Laundry Soap Recipe. This light, gorgeous scent leaves your clothes smelling fantastic!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Sweet Pea Vanilla Fragrance Oil

Next, we have the lovely Sweet Pea Vanilla Fragrance Oil! This vanilla fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a harmonious blend of ripe red berries, juicy Bing cherries, floral sweet pea, and sweet creamy coconut drizzled with vanilla create the recipe for this decadent treat.

You can use this nice scent perfectly in your own soap making recipe. This scent is a wonderful vanilla fragrance as there is no acceleration, no ricing, no separation, and it only discolors to a yellow tan hue. Plus, this fragrance is very strong after the soap cures!

If you would like to use this lovely scent in your candles, we suggest using two drops of red plus a drop of purple liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred an ample amount of a red and purple color block into your melted wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla SPECTACULAR Fragrance Oil

This spectacular vanilla fragrance oil by Natures Garden is indulgence at its best. In this aroma, Vanilla Creme blends with buttery, rich caramel and sparkling brown sugar that will wrap you in snuggly warmth and comfort. This NG Original Scent is a must have for your products!

One amazing way to use this fragrance is cp soap. This aroma has no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Plus, this fragrance is very strong in cured soap!

Of course, this strong vanilla aroma would pair perfectly with a pure white candle that has no colorant added.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Black Raspberry and Vanilla Fragrance Oil

Next, we have the scrumptious Black Raspberry and Vanilla Fragrance Oil. This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is an enticing blend of blackberries and raspberries, with middle notes of white floral greenery, and bottom notes of musk and vanilla. Further, this vanilla scent is one of our best selling fragrance oils!

You can use this yummy scent to create your own soaps! This vanilla aroma is the most perfect scent for soap! There will be no ricing, no acceleration, no separation, and no discoloration. Plus, this fragrance has a great scent!

Alternatively, you could make some strong scented candles! We recommend using this candle with six drops of purple liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of a purple color block into your melted wax.

This Black Raspberry Vanilla Body Butter Recipe is perfect for making homemade skin care! This homemade recipe is perfect for nourishing your skin and providing the moisture your skin needs.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Champagne Fragrance Oil

In our Vanilla Champagne Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden, effervescent citrus notes and sweet vanilla combine to make this festive fragrance! This aroma has sparkling aldehydic accent creates a fizzy effect for the citrus top notes of lime and orange to open this blend. Hints of green floral and rum liquor notes from the fragrant heart. Clear woody tones combine with earthy accents while a base of vanilla bean surrounds the fragrance. So incredibly unique and fun! Plus, this is an NG Original Fragrance!

Also, you can use this glamorous scent to create lovely cp soaps. The performance is great with no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Plus, the scent remains very strong after cure!

If you use this elegant aroma for candles, then you can follow our color suggestion of one drop of brown liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of brown color block into your melted wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils French Vanilla – ORIGINAL Fragrance Oil

Next, check out our Original French Vanilla Fragrance Oil! This best-selling Natures Garden scent has a rich French vanilla aroma! This pure scent is the perfect choice for crafters that like vanilla scents!

Also, this fragrance works nicely in soaps. There is no ricing, no acceleration, and no separation. Plus, the aroma has good soap retention.

Next, you can create your very own vanilla scented candles! If you do, then try using a single drop of brown liquid candle dye or a very small amount of shredded brown color block per four pounds of wax.

Also, you can use this scent in the creation of the Fourth of July Triple Layer Candle Recipe! This recipe uses a different aroma for each layer to create a perfectly patriotic candle!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils French Vanilla – NEW IMPROVED Fragrance Oil

Alternatively, you can try out our new and Improved version of the French Vanilla Fragrance Oil. We at Natures Garden have created a New Improved French Vanilla fragrance oil that is not as thick in consistency as our Original French Vanilla fragrance. But, this scent still has a rich French vanilla aroma!

If you want to use this rich vanilla aroma in soaps, then you are in luck! This fragrance oil will perform very nicely! There is no acceleration, no separation, and no ricing. Also, the scent remains as a light vanilla.

This aroma would pair perfectly with a candle that uses one drop brown liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded brown color block per 4 pounds of wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Happy Birthday Vanilla Cupcake Fragrance Oil

This delicious fragrance oil by Natures Garden was inspired by the news on the street that cupcakes are a hot commodity! In order to expand your product line, we have worked closely with our perfumist to develop an entire cupcake line of fragrances! You are going to just love our Happy Birthday Vanilla Cupcake Fragrance Oil! This aroma begins with top notes of creme fraiche, lemon, and butter; followed by middle notes of honey and buttercream; and well rounded with base notes of vanilla bean and powdered sugar. This NG original scent is truly amazing!

Plus, you can use this yummy vanilla cupcake scent in your cp soap recipes! There is no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Also, the soaps retain a nice vanilla aroma!

Additionally, you can use this fragrance to create some awesome vanilla cupcake scented candles! If you chose to create this candle, then we recommend using a single drop of yellow liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded yellow color block per four pounds of wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Extract Fragrance Oil

The Vanilla Extract Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden has vanilla that is crisp and fresh and not at all buttery. The fragrance smells just like real vanilla extract that is true and pure.

Next, try out this vanilla extract scent in your one soap. There is no ricing, no acceleration, and no separation. Plus, this scent will remain strong in finished soap!

Or, you could use this fragrance to make a vanilla extract candle scent for your home. This scent would be perfect with a candle that used one drop of yellow and a tiny bit of brown liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded brown and yellow color block per four pounds of wax.

Additionally, you could use this scent in our Vanilla Brown Sugar Scrub Recipe! This sugar scrub smells amazing and really cares for your skin. It is a perfect recipe to remedy dry hands!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Jamaican Vanilla Cafe Fragrance Oil

Now, try out the delicious and awakening Jamaican Vanilla Cafe Fragrance Oil! This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a harmony of rich roasted Jamaican coffee and sweet vanilla beans that make this scent a delightful temptation. Furthermore, this aroma is an NG Original Fragrance!

Luckily, this cafe scent is perfect for cp soap! There is no ricing, no acceleration, no separation, and a good scent retention.

Now, try out this tasty scent with your homemade candles! We suggest using a small amount of brown and yellow liquid candle dye per 4 pounds of wax or shred an ample amount of a brown and yellow color blocks into your melted wax. Also, you can use a toothpick to add this small amount.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils French Vanilla COFFEE Fragrance Oil

Also, we have another cafe scent that you can try, which is the French Vanilla COFFEE Fragrance Oil. This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a sugary, vanilla aroma with just the right amount of freshly brewed coffee.

You can try out this scrumptious scent in your cp soaps! The batch will have no ricing, no acceleration, and no separation. Also, the fragrance will leave behind a nice, subtle scent in the soap.

Additionally, you can make some perfect cafe candles with this fragrance. To match this vanilla coffee scent we suggest using two drops brown liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded brown color block per four pounds of wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Buttercream Fragrance Oil

The Vanilla Buttercream Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden is a blend of Tahitian Vanilla, powdered sugar and butter rum that is whipped with sweet churned butter to create the perfect fluffy and decadent confection. IF you like sweet scents, this id that fragrance oil for you!

Plus, this fragrance is a perfect vanilla scent for soap! You will find no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Plus, there is a strong scent in soap after curing!

Of course, a delicious vanilla buttercream candle is perfect for scented candles. We suggest leaving your candle white to better match the vanilla aroma.

What better way to use the Vanilla Buttercream Fragrance than in our Vanilla Foaming Body Frosting Recipe? There has never been a body frosting this sweet!This is a fluffy soap recipe that will leave you skin feeling soft and refreshed.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Insanity Fragrance Oil

The Vanilla Insanity Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden is an aroma for those who are insanely in love with vanilla scents! This fragrance oil is the strongest vanilla fragrance we have ever smelled. So, hats off to the perfumist! Vanilla Insanity begins with top notes of French vanilla and whipped cream butter; followed by middle notes of cotton candy, chestnuts, and maple sugar; all sitting on a dry down of vanilla beans. Further, this scent is an NG original scent!

If you like vanilla scented soap, then try out this soaping scent! It has no acceleration and no ricing. While there is slight separation, the scent will reabsorb as it cures. Also, the scent remains light in the finished soap.

Since this fragrance is a very strong vanilla, it makes perfect sense for it to be created in a pure white candle!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil

Next, we have the Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil! This sweet fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a sweet, sugary aroma of fresh vanilla beans.

This perfect vanilla aroma is great for soaping! This soap will have no acceleration, no ricing, no separation, and a good scent retention.

Also, this pure vanilla bean aroma would pair well with a pure vanilla white candle. So, don’t add any color to your wax.

Our Neapolitan Ice Cream Emulsified Sugar Scrub Recipe is such a fun idea! Each layer is scented exactly like it would be for real Neapolitan ice cream! So, the white layer is obviously scented with the vanilla bean fragrance.

Another way to use this aroma is the Candle Wax Tarts Recipe! These wax tarts are perfect for your warmer and will scent your entire house!

Further, you could create the Vanilla Rose Sugar Scrub Recipe with the vanilla bean aroma! This amazing scrub uses this delicious aroma and infuses real rose petals!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Pear Fragrance Oil

This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is one of our favorite fragrances! The Vanilla Pear Fragrance Oil is a sophisticated blend of French vanilla and juicy sun ripened pears. Outstanding reviews! Further, this NG Original scent is a best seller of ours!

This elegant aroma would go nicely in cold process soaps. There is no acceleration, no ricing, and separation that will reabsorb. Also, the scent is retained well after cure.

For this scent, we recommend combining a small amount of green, yellow, and brown liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded green, yellow, and brown color block per four pounds of wax

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils French Vanilla Oak Fragrance Oil

Also, you can try our French Vanilla Oak Fragrance Oil! This sensual fragrance oil by Natures Garden is the aroma of creamy vanilla and warm amber which mingle with oak moss and sandalwood, anchored by patchouli and musk. Truly, an amazing NG original scent!

While this scent takes some work, the aroma is worth it! This scent does not separate, and the scent is perfect! However, you will need to stick blend out the ricing and soap at lower temperatures to reduce the acceleration.

Alternatively, you can you this gorgeous scent in homemade candles! We would suggest using a drop of brown liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred an ample amount of a brown color block into your melted wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Musk Fragrance Oil

This Vanilla Musk Fragrance Oil is an amazing for scenting all kinds of products! This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is the rich aroma of creamy French vanilla with warm white musk.

Also, you can use this fragrance oil to create vanilla musk scented soap. This scent will have no acceleration, no ricing, and separation that will reabsorb. Plus, the soap has good scent retention.

Also, this would be a perfect vanilla room scent! If you create a vanilla musk scented candle, we suggest using a tiny amount of brown liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded brown color block per four pounds of wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Honey Vanilla Love Dust Fragrance Oil

Also, we have the delicious Honey Vanilla Love Dust Fragrance Oil. This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is the incredibly sexy aroma of raw honey, cocoa butter, and chocolate. If you can looking for a mouth watering scent, then you may want to get acquainted with this fragrance!

This sensual aroma is lovely in handmade soaps! There is no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. Plus, the scent retention is good.

Furthermore, this aroma would be perfect for creating deliciously scented candles. This sweet honey vanilla scent would be perfect in a golden colored candle with two drops brown and two drops yellow liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded brown and yellow color block per four pounds of wax.

One idea we have for this fragrance is our Scented Markers Recipe. This way you can have scented markers that smell exactly how you’d like!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Silk Fragrance Oil

The Vanilla Silk Fragrance Oil by Natures Garden is a perfect vanilla scent! This fragrant oil has a warm luscious aroma of true, creamy vanilla. No doubt, this fragrance oil is one of our very best selling scents!

This luscious vanilla aroma is perfect for soap makers! There is no acceleration, no ricing, and separation that will reabsorb. Plus, the scent retained is light and lovely.

Next, try out this luxurious scent in your homemade candles! This elegant vanilla aroma would be perfect for a pure white candle that is left uncolored.

The Vanilla Cinnamon Sugar Scrub Recipe flawlessly combines two scrumptious fragrances to create a deliciously scented scrub. Plus, this sugar scrub will exfoliate, moisturize, and soften your skin!

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Valentine Fragrance Oil

Next, we have the delicious Vanilla Valentine Fragrance Oil! This sweetheart fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a perfect blend of creamed vanilla bean and sensual musk that will stimulate the senses and arouse your passion for sweet, sugar goodness. Also, this scrumptious scent is an NG Original Fragrance!

This sweet vanilla scent is great for soaping! Although the typical vanilla discoloration occurs, everything else about this scent is perfect! These is no ricing, no acceleration, no separation. Also, the aroma after cure is a very strong vanilla scent and that is not too sweet.

This fragrance can be used to create some lovely scented candles. We at Natures Garden think that this aroma would be perfect in candles that use a tiny amount of yellow liquid candle dye or a small amount of shredded yellow color block per four pounds of wax.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Blossoms Fragrance Oil

Our Vanilla Blossoms Fragrance Oil is the perfect sweet floral aroma. This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is a harmonious blend of French vanilla, fresh air notes and summer flowers. This Vanilla Blossom fragrance begins with top notes of dewy fresh air, coconut cream, and ripe pineapple; followed by middle notes of ylang-ylang, star jasmine, and Moroccan roses; sitting on base notes of French vanilla, Egyptian musk, and exotic sandalwood.

This floral vanilla aroma is a nice aroma for soaps. While there is a slight acceleration, there is no ricing and no separation. Also, you can soap at room temperature to reduce the acceleration. Furthermore, the scent is pretty and light in the finished soap.

We suggest using a tiny amount of yellow liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of yellow color block into your melted wax in the vanilla blossoms scented candles.

Best Vanilla Fragrance Oils Vanilla Wafer Fragrance Oil

In our Vanilla Wafer Fragrance Oil fragrance oil by Natures Garden, a time honored recipe of sweet simplicity and goodness awaits. This fragrance oil has the aroma of creamy, freshly churned butter, Tahitian Vanilla beans and pure cane sugar that is toasted to perfection. All of this is combined to create this truly yummy fragrance.

This scent would be great for creating sweet scented soaps. This fragrance has no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation in cp soap. Bonus, the fragrance remains strong after curing!

If you enjoy sweet vanilla scents, then you will love creating vanilla wafer scented candles! Also, we suggest coloring these candles with a small amount of brown and yellow liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of a brown & yellow color blocks into your melted wax.

Sep

Balsam and Cedar Fragrance

Deborah Ward September 20, 2015
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Balsam and Cedar Fragrance Oil Spotlight

We already met our buddy the balsam fir- a.k.a. the Christmas Tree. So what’s the deal with cedar? Cedar wood is used in all sorts of amazing applications from building ships, houses, log cabins, fences, furniture, canoes, and even guitars, to bug repellent. Smells great, too! California incense-cedar is the primary type of wood used for making pencils. This kind of explains why I loved holding pencils under my nose as a kid- cedar wood smells fantastic. And pencil mustaches are cool, too. :{o (That’s a mustachioed smiley. Try holding a pencil between your upper lip and your nose to see what I’m talking about: pencil mustache.)

What Does Balsam and Cedar Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

A camphoraceous woody blend of pine, eucalyptus, cedarwood; finished with sweet balsam. This fragrance is composed of top notes of orange, raspberry, and plum; middle notes of lily, carnation, and hyacinth; base notes of balsam, pine, eucalyptus, and cedarwood.

How Do Our Customers Use Balsam and Cedar Fragrance Oil?

Candles! This fresh forest fragrance performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. It is gel wax compatible! That means you could make some gel candles with embeds (check out our Christmas tree embed molds). The maximum recommended usage percentage for this woodsy aura in vegetable waxes and paraffin wax is 10%. Our candle coloring recommendations are 5 drops green plus 1 drop brown liquid candle dye per 4 pounds of wax or shred a small amount of green and brown color block into your melted wax. Never color your candles with crayons; it will clog the wick.

Room scents! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this sophisticated scent in potpourri and incense is 50%. It comes across nice and strong in aroma beads.

Bath and body products! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this complex accord in soaps, bath oils, and bath gels is 5%. Our cold process soap testing found that this fragrance caused slight acceleration in CP soap, but no ricing and no separation. It retained a very strong scent and cured bars discolored to a lavender/tan color. The vanillin content of this fragrance is 0%, but there are over 40 ingredients used in fragrance manufacturing that can lead to the discoloration of products. Products with high vanillin contents tend to discolor to varying shades of brown, but this one has a tiny bit of purple (I personally think it’s a pretty cute color). Our coloring recommendations are to use green and brown soap colorant in the amount that satisfies you. If you’d like to go for a more earthy tone and add some extra nutrients- check out our natural soap colorants. Just be sure to read the descriptions because different soap processes cause different reactions with your herbs and can affect the intended color of your soap. Also- feel free to check out our tree-shaped soap molds!

Body products without the bath! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this interesting aroma in lotions and body-sprays is 5%. It performed perfectly in perfumes.

Cleaning products! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this evergreen aura in cleaning products is 5%.

Sep

Autumn Woods Fragrance

Deborah Ward September 18, 2015
This entry was posted in bath and body, bath products, candle fragrance oils, candle making supplies, cold process soap, Fragrance Oils, Natures Garden, Natures Garden Fragrance Oils, Soap making supplies, Uncategorized, wholesale fragrance oils and tagged aroma beads, autumn aromas, Autumn Leaves Potpourri, autumn potpourri, autumn woods, blackberries, bodyspray, candle colorant, carnation, cedarwood, cold process soap testing results, color block, cute fall decorations, diy bath and body, earthy aromas, eucalyptus leaves, fall fragrances, fragrance oil, free recipe, freshly fallen leaves, gold mica, homemade candles, homemade soap, lemon, lime, liquid candle dye, lotion, maximum recommended usage percentage, muguet, natural soap colorants, natures garden, orange, patchouli, perfect pour, pine, rose, scented candles, scented soap, soap colorant, soap discoloration, soap from scratch, soapmaking, vanilla white color stabilizer on September 18, 2015 by Deborah Ward.

Autumn Woods Fragrance Oil Spotlight

It’s almost Autumn and I am elated! Fall is by far my favorite season. One of the best things about this (soon-to-be) time of year is the changing colors and falling of the leaves. And what’s better than taking a walk through the woods on a brisk autumn day? I love the crunch, crunch, crunch of the leaves underneath my feet. It’s also easier to breath. Take a deep breath of that cool, crisp autumn air and you basically have this fantastic fall fragrance!

What Does Autumn Woods Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

This fragrance is a walk in the woods with the smell of crisp leaves under foot and fresh pine with berries falling off the trees.

Top Notes: Lemon, Orange, Lime, Blackberries
Mid Notes: Carnation, Rose, Muguet
Base Notes: Pine, Cedarwood, Patchouli, Eucalyptus leaves

How Do Our Customers Use Autumn Woods Fragrance Oil?

All kinds of creative ways! Firstly, they make delightful decorative candles. This earthy aura performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. It is not gel wax compatible. The maximum recommended usage percentage for this fall fragrance in vegetable waxes and paraffin wax is 10%. Our coloring suggestions for candles are to use 4 drops of yellow plus 1 drop of brown liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax, or shred a small amount of yellow and brown color block into your melted wax. As cool and creative as it may sound, do NOT color your candles with crayons–it will clog the wick!

Secondly, they make some super room scents. The maximum recommended usage percentage for this full-bodied fragrance in incense and potpourri is 50%. This autumn aroma comes across nice and strong in aroma beads. We’ve also got an awesome Autumn Leaves Potpourri Recipe made with Autumn Woods Fragrance Oil, cute little leaf molds, and shiny gold mica pigment! A beautiful fall decoration that exudes a wonderful scent.

If you’d like to do some autumn-cleaning, the maximum recommended usage percentage for this seasonal scent in cleaning products is 5%.

Thirdly, bath and body products! The maximum recommended usage percentage in soaps, bath oils, and bath gels is 5%. Our cold process soap testing found that this complex accord results in no acceleration, no ricing, no separation, and nice, strong scent retention. It discolors CP soap to a tan color. This is possibly due to the 1.84% vanillin content of the fragrance. Vanillin has the tendency to discolor bath and body products. If you’d prefer, you can try to combat this with Vanilla White Color Stabilizer, but please remember you are responsible for the results in your finished products. Our coloring suggestions for bath and body products are to use yellow and brown soap colorant in the amount that satisfies you. You can also try natural soap colorants for some truly earthy tones, but pay close attention to the information on the page- some soapmaking processes can alter the desired color of your final soap. Experimenting is always okay! But never color your bath and body products with candle colorants- that is one experiment to avoid.

And finally, body products outside of the bath! This fragrance performs perfectly in perfumes and its maximum recommended usage percentage in lotions and body-sprays it 3.95%.

Wear this fragrance on your body or use it to fill rooms with scent- you will certainly feel all the fragrant fun of fall!

Sep

Apple Butter Caramel Fragrance

Deborah Ward September 8, 2015
This entry was posted in bath and body, bath products, candle fragrance oils, candle making supplies, cold process soap, Fragrance Oils, Natures Garden, Natures Garden Fragrance Oils, Soap making supplies, wholesale fragrance oils and tagged 3D apple mold, apple aromas, apple butter, Apple Butter Caramel, apple butter pie, apple fragrances, bakery scents, bath gels, bath oils, bodyspray, brown liquid candle dye, candlemaking, caramel, caramel candy, cleaning products, color block, fragrance oil, fresh nutmeg, fruit fragrances, incense, lotions, mcintosh apple, natures garden, potpourri, pure sugar, red liquid candle dye, room scents, savory scents, scented candles, scented soaps, soap colorant, soap discoloration, soap from scratch, soapmaking, soft musk, spicy scents, steamed milk, strong scent retention, sweet scents, toffee pudding, vanilla bean, vanilla white color stabilizer, vanillin content on September 8, 2015 by Deborah Ward.

Apple Butter Caramel Fragrance Oil Spotlight

We’ve got alluring apple aromas in abundance. Apple butter is an incredible spread made by slow cooking apples with cider, sugar, and spices until the delicious mixture reaches a butter-like consistency. I’m drooling just thinking about it. You can spread it on toast, eat it straight out of the jar, or bake it into a mouth-watering pie. Caramel is made by heating a variety of sugars, a bit of cream, and vanilla–another taste-bud-tempting treat. Mix the two together and you have sugar, spice, and everything nice. Tempt your tummy (don’t eat fragrance oil) and satisfy your sense of smell with this savory scent.

What Does Apple Butter Caramel Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

This fragrance is an amazing combination of the following aromatic notes to make apple butter caramel fragrance truly fantastic: McIntosh apple, steamed milk, pure sugar, caramel candy, toffee pudding, apple butter, fresh nutmeg, vanilla bean, and soft musk.

How Do Our Customers Use Apple Butter Caramel Fragrance Oil?

Candles! This amazing apple aroma performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. It is not gel wax compatible. The maximum recommended usage percentage for this savory scent in vegetable waxes and paraffin wax is 10%. Our coloring suggestions for candles are to use six drops of red plus two drops brown liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax, or shred an ample amount of red and brown color block into your melted wax. Attempting to color your candles with crayons will clog the wick.

Soaps! This delicious bakery scent has a maximum recommended usage percentage of 5% in soaps, bath oils, bath gels, and cleaning products. The vanillin content of this fruit fragrance is 6.7%, so it will likely discolor your bath and body products. Our cold process soap testing found that cured CP soap made with Apple Butter Caramel fragrance discolored to brown. Otherwise it had a perfect pour: no acceleration, no ricing, and no separation. The scent retention is strong. If you’d like to try to prevent discoloration in your bath and body products, try using our Vanilla White Color Stabilizer. It may help prevent discoloration due to vanilla, but you are responsible for the results in your final product. Our coloring suggestions for bath and body products are to use red soap colorant in the amount that satisfies you. (Never use candle dye in any body products.)

We’ve got this cool 3D Apple Mold that you could use to make soaps or candles. If there’s one thing I know about our customers, it’s that they’re creative, crafty! See what kind of fun things you can come up with; share pictures with us on Facebook if your heart desires.

Lotions and perfumes! This sweet scent performed perfectly in perfumes and the maximum recommended usage percentage for perfumes and lotions is 5%.

Room scents! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this awesome apple aura in incense and potpourri is 50%. The delicious scent comes across nice and strong in aroma beads.

Sep

Apple Pecan Sage Fragrance

Deborah Ward September 3, 2015
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Apple Pecan Sage Fragrance Oil Spotlight

Again, another amazing apple aroma. After some brief research on Wikipedia, I can tell you that “pecan” comes from a Native American word meaning ‘a nut that requires a stone to crack.’ No stones needed to open this fragrance oil. (There’s a lot of cool information on that pecan page; learn something new!) Pecans, much like our friend the almond, are drupes- not technically nuts- but in my experience, the more you try to convince someone you’re not nuts, the more nuts you seem. The important part is that the nutty scent of pecans goes well with apples and spicy sage. Sage is a natural deodorizer and has many additional uses that you can read about in our Sage Class. (Our fragrance oil is for smelling purposes only- but we do sell sage leaf, sage incense smudging wands, and white sage leaves for all of your sage needs!)

What Does Apple Pecan Sage Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

This fragrance oil by Natures Garden is the aroma of sweet, freshly picked apples with aromatic spices and a wonderful nutty flavor.

Top: Apple, Pear, Banana
Mid: Cinnamon, Sage, Clove, Cardamom
Base: Pecan, Vanilla

How Do Our Customers Use Apple Pecan Sage Fragrance Oil?

They create candles! This spicy, nutty, apple aroma performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. It is not gel wax compatible. The maximum recommended usage percentage of this spicy sweet scent in vegetable waxes and paraffin waxes is 10%. Our coloring recommendations for candles are to use four drops of red liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax or shred a small amount of red color block in your melted wax. (Coloring with crayons will clog your wick; don’t do it!)

They make savory soaps! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this bountiful bouquet in soaps, bath oils, bath gels, and cleaning products is 5%. Our cold process soap testing results found that CP soap made with this fragrance had perfect pour with plenty of time to play. (I smell swirls!) There was no ricing, no acceleration, and slight oil separation, but it absorbs back into the soap. The scent stays very strong, and the soap discolors to a brown color. This might be due to the fact that this full-bodied fruit fragrance has a vanillin content of 3% (but truthfully, over 40 ingredients can cause discoloration). Vanilla White Color Stabilizer may help prevent discoloration due to vanilla. Testing will need to be done by the customer with all fragrances they choose. Our coloring recommendations for bath and body products made with this awesome apple aroma are to use red soap colorant in the amount that satisfies you.

How about lotions and perfumes? The maximum recommended usage percentage of this savory scent in perfumes and lotions is 5%. It was found to perform perfectly in perfumes.

And room scents? Sure! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this autumn aura in incense and potpourri is 50%. It comes across nice and strong in aroma beads.

Aug

Apple Happy Camper Candy Fragrance

Deborah Ward August 31, 2015
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Apple Happy Camper Candy Fragrance Oil Spotlight

Try saying that three times fast; it’s a mouthful! Apple Happy Camper Candy is fun to say, delicious to eat, and makes a great fragrance oil for use in all of your homemade products! You probably already know, but remember to never eat fragrance oil, and keep this away from your kids in case they mistake it for actual candy. It does smell just like the real thing- so that could be an easy mistake to make. But now you can take this sweet scent and use it in your home decor and fantastic bath and body products. Feel the joy of eating delicious green apple candy whenever you light a candle or use homemade soap!

What Does Apple Happy Camper Candy Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

Tempt your taste buds with the aroma of tangy yet sweet green apple goodness that will remind you of the sour green apple candy you enjoyed during childhood.

Top Notes: Tart Green Apple, Pineapple, Peach
Middle Notes: Juicy Pear, Nectarine, Strawberry
Base Notes: Banana, Apple Blossoms, Vanilla Bean

Best of all- it’s a Nature’s Garden original scent!

How Do Our Customers Use Apple Happy Camper Candy Fragrance Oil?

Candles, of course! This appetizing apple aroma performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. Unfortunately, this fun fragrance is not gel wax compatible. The maximum recommended usage percentage in vegetable waxes and paraffin wax is 10%. Our coloring recommendations for candles are to use one drop of green liquid candle dye per 4 pounds of wax or to shred an ample amount of green color block into your melted wax. The childlike wonder that this scent inspires may ignite the desire to color your candles with crayons- but don’t! Coloring with crayons will clog the wick- for best results use dye or color block.

Soaps, silly! This energetic essence performs well in bath and body products. Use them in the shower to awaken that inner sugar rush without the tummy ache! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this overjoyed odor in soaps, bath oils, bath gels, and cleaning products is 5%. Our cold process soap testing results found no acceleration, no ricing, no separation, very strong scent retention, and slight discoloration to a light tan. To see exactly what I mean- check out the fragrance oil page or watch our CP soap testing video– results included! The vanillin content of this fragrance is 0.4%, so it may have a tendency to discolor your bath and body products. Vanilla White Color Stabilizer may help combat this problem, but you are ultimately responsible for the results. Our coloring recommendations for soaps are to use green soap colorant in the amount that satisfies you.

Lovely lotions and pretty perfumes! This fun fragrance performs perfectly in perfumes. The maximum recommended usage percentage in lotions and perfumes is 5%.

And finally, refreshing room scents! The maximum recommended usage percentage for this amazing apple aura in incense and potpourri is 50%. The sweet scent comes across nice and strong in aroma beads.

Aug

Apple Crisp Fragrance

Deborah Ward August 29, 2015
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Apple Crisp Fragrance Oil Spotlight

Why not warm up to a freshly-baked apple aroma just in time for autumn? We’ve got plenty of them, and they all smell awesome. Apple Crisp- the food- is baked apples topped with streusel. If you click the link in the title, there’s a sweet free Apple Crisp recipe on our Apple Crisp Fragrance Oil page. Mmm. Remember to never ever eat fragrance oil. Also remember that once you use a baking pan, measuring utensil, or any other kitchen supplies to make soap, candles, anything with chemicals, fragrance oils or dyes, don’t use it again for baking. It’s no longer food safe. Even if you wash it, chemical residue may still remain, and can get into your food. Blech. So buy two adorable kitchen sets- one for making your delicious apple crisp, and the other for making your delicious-smelling Apple Crisp-scented candles/soaps/lotions/perfumes/room-scents.

What Does Apple Crisp Fragrance Oil Smell Like?

The aroma of a red juicy apple combined with buttercream and cinnamon with a base note of a baked oatmeal cookie.

How Do Our Customers Use Apple Crisp Fragrance Oil?

Candles? Of course. This alluring apple aroma performs perfectly in joy wax and wow wax, and is nice and strong in soy wax. The maximum usage percentage in vegetable and paraffin waxes is 10%. It is not gel wax compatible. Our coloring recommendations for this sweet spicy scent are to use 3 drops of burgundy, plus 3 drops red, plus one drop brown liquid candle dye per four pounds of wax. Or if you prefer to use color block, we suggest shredding ample amounts of burgundy, red, and cinnamon into your melted wax. Never color candles with crayon- it will clog your wick!

Soaps? Certainly. The maximum usage percentage of this bakery scent in soaps, bath oils, bath gels, and cleaning products is 1%. Cold process soap testing results show that this apple aura is ideal for CP soap: no acceleration; no separation; no ricing; good scent retention. The vanillin content of this freshly-baked fruit fragrance is 3%- so it may have the tendency to discolor your bath and body products. In fact, our cold process soap testing results found that it discolored soap to a very light tan color. If you wish to combat this- try our Vanilla White Color Stabilizer. It’s not a guarantee, but it may help. Ultimately, you are responsible for the results in your finished product. Anyway, we recommend coloring your bath and body products scented with Apple Crisp fragrance by using burgundy soap dye (on clearance!) in the amount that satisfies you. But in case we run out of that by the time you read this blog post, perhaps mix a little Red Oxide and Brown Oxide FUN soap colorant to create an apple cinnamon-y color.

Can I rub it on my body? Sure, if you make lotions or perfumes. The maximum recommended usage percentage in such applications is 0.5%- measure carefully. This fragrance performs perfectly in perfumes.

Can I rub it on the WORLD?! Uh.. sure. Just be responsible about it. The maximum recommended usage percentage for incense and potpourri is 50%. and this scent comes across nice and strong in aroma beads.