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Essential Oils for Soap Making

Cooling Soap cold process soap recipe

Cooling Soap: Cold Process Soap Recipe

Skin cooling cold process soap recipe using essential oils

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Soap Making: How to Combat Scent Fading

Soap Making: How to Combat Scent Fading

Five ways to keep scent in cold process soap: use the right amount, anchor the blend, pick oils that last, add clay or starch, and cure it cool and dark.

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Holiday Soap Recipes

Holiday Soap Recipes

Three holiday soap recipes for gifting, a foaming hand soap, a melt and pour bar and a lye soap bar, plus two extra seasonal scent blends.

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Lavender Essential Oil for Soap Making

Why soap makers reach for lavender, with four recipes: cold process oatmeal soap, a melt and pour swirl, a shampoo bar and a body wash.

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Spring Soap Recipe Ideas

Spring Soap Recipe Ideas

Five spring soap ideas, each with an essential oil blend in parts and a design technique that works in melt and pour, cold process or hot process soap.

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Easter Egg Soap Recipe

Easter Egg Soap Recipe

Egg shaped melt and pour soaps with a pastel lavender and yellow swirl, scented with chocolate and vanilla cream fragrance oils.

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Lucky Shamrock Soap

Lucky Shamrock Soap

A green shamrock shaped melt and pour soap scented with lime, lemongrass and rosemary essential oils.

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Tea Tree and Activated Charcoal Soap

Tea Tree and Activated Charcoal Soap

A simple melt and pour soap made with shea butter soap base, activated charcoal for gentle exfoliation and tea tree essential oil.

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Essential Oil Soap Making Glossary

Plain definitions of the terms soap makers meet in recipes and guides, from acceleration and cure to soda ash, superfat and trace.

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Essential Oil Blends for Soap Making

A guide to blending essential oils for soap using top, middle and base notes, with three simple starter blends given as percentages.

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