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The essential oils arrived yesterday. I'm gonna try and get the shampoo made tonight. Since I'm planning on a trip into Cambridge for early Christmas shopping this weekend, I may also stop off at Cambridge Naturals and get some beeswax (Whole Foods doesn't always have beeswax other than candles) and possibly cocoa butter if I run out on the shampoo; once I've taken the shampoo bars out of their molds to age I can use the same molds for another batch of honey-beeswax soap for people's Christmas gifts.

Scents for the honey beeswax soap will probably be sweet orange oil plus some cedar unless Cambridge Naturals has a different base note that works better or for some reason has a sale on sandalwood or patchouli essential oil or something. Bear in mind that there will only be a tiny bit of the other scent- in a recipe with 44 ounces of saponifying oil, there'd be like 2 ounces of sweet orange essential oil and 1/4 ounce of whatever the other EO is. (The original recipe calls for frankincense EO, but frankincense is hellaciously expensive, whereas patchouli and sandalwood are merely ridiculously expensive.)