Here are some more EO blends from The Manual of Toilet Soap-Making by Dr. C. Deite.
The amounts given in the book are for scenting a soap batch using 50 kilos of oil; I’ve adjusted them down so the amounts shown below are for a soap batch containing 5 kilos (11 pounds) of oil. The names of the soaps are as given in the book.
11 gr. ginger-grass oil
21 gr citronella oil
7 gr lemongrass oil
7 gr cassia oil
Back around the turn of the (last) century, synthetic fragrances were just making their debuts. Soapmaking manuals and books for the time still gave recipes for scent blending based on essential oils.
My Manual of Toilet Soap-Making by Dr. C. Deite lists a number of scent blends for what were “traditional” toilet soaps at the time.
Winter Spruce Soap - www.thesoapsmith.biz
Making cold process soap is a combination of art and science.
Making swirled soap is particularly tricky. It’s quite a skill to get the colors to swirl in together and still keep them distinct. Every swirled bar is different - not only different from soapmaker to soapmaker, but different from batch to batch and every bar within a batch will be unique.
Soap made by Marie Gale
As with most people, making soap wasn’t something I planned to do. I didn’t have a driving urge to become a soapmaker. In fact, up until about 12 years ago, I never really thought about where soap came from. True, I didn’t like using “traditional, store-bought” soap, but it never occurred to me that there were other options.
Then, in the late 1990’s I had major changes in my life. Most of them weren’t very pleasant, and all of them resulted in the necessity to regroup, restructure and reorganize. Sparing the gruesome details, at the end of it all I was living on our family ranch in a 90-year-old house wondering what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
