Teach Soap

Ok, so I successfully made and gifted soap for christmas! Now I would like to make myself some soap. I want to use honey, but I also want it to smell like honey. Any advice? I was also going to add lavender and jasmine eos and iwas hoping the honey would be a nice warm undertone.

Honey has a lot of sugar which can make the soap overheat. People normally use 1 teaspoon per lb. of soap, but at that rate, not much of a scent will come through. You can use a honey fragrance oil instead.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I would use a fragrance oil for the honey scent, but I don't recall seeing a straight honey scent. Usually it's honey almond or honey mixed with something else. I'm sure there must be something out there though.

I've used honey in a few loafs of soap. I like to use raw honey, I heat up a small amount of distilled water and melt the honey into it before adding to the soap so it mixes in easier. I tried adding honey to one of my hot process batches and it instantly turned a medium brown shade, then cured to a dark brown. It also had oatmeal in it and I really liked the look of the dark soap bar with light colored oats in it. It smelled wonderful, but not really like honey, I don't think the honey scent comes through without adding a synthetic fragrance.

Like the others said, just using honey won't give your soap any honey scent. I've used Honey *L'Occitane Type* FO from Elements Bath & Body and it smells just like fresh honey.

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Genny

Try fragrance from Nature's Garden. Once saponified I find it smells a lot like honey! Straight out of the bottle it doesn't, but it does once the soap is cut-able!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist