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Oct. 15th, 2014 02:43 pmLooking at various soap molds today, since a design other than 'sliced rectangle' probably holds more visual appeal. I'm kinda tempted to get one with bees on it for future batches of honey-beeswax soap, assuming that works out well for the people who use it. Not sure what I'd do for a shampoo bar, though. Maybe just oval.
Also going over various sites about perfuming and essential oil blends and whatnot, just to see what I can find about the best way to sort these things out. For something like the honey-beeswax soap it's simple- HERE HAVE ORANGE and oh yeah cedar. For something like the shampoo, I need to work the details out a bit more. Most people who've sniffed the cinnamon-clove-ginger shampoo very much liked the smell, but I've had one report of it smelling awful after a trip through the post. Don't know if that's the case all around or if it's a case of personal biochemistry being different, but either way tweaking the balance of cinnamon versus clove should alter that, plus I may want to put actual ginger essential oil in instead of ginger powder or grated ginger. The other shampoo bar has pine, cedar, and eucalyptus and the end result was weirdly anise for me, so I wanna balance that scent out properly...
dear high school AP chemistry teacher who was the worst AP teacher I have ever had for anything ever, screw you. I've decided to be an alchemist instead.
Also going over various sites about perfuming and essential oil blends and whatnot, just to see what I can find about the best way to sort these things out. For something like the honey-beeswax soap it's simple- HERE HAVE ORANGE and oh yeah cedar. For something like the shampoo, I need to work the details out a bit more. Most people who've sniffed the cinnamon-clove-ginger shampoo very much liked the smell, but I've had one report of it smelling awful after a trip through the post. Don't know if that's the case all around or if it's a case of personal biochemistry being different, but either way tweaking the balance of cinnamon versus clove should alter that, plus I may want to put actual ginger essential oil in instead of ginger powder or grated ginger. The other shampoo bar has pine, cedar, and eucalyptus and the end result was weirdly anise for me, so I wanna balance that scent out properly...
dear high school AP chemistry teacher who was the worst AP teacher I have ever had for anything ever, screw you. I've decided to be an alchemist instead.
