Hey y'all! I just realized i haven't blogged in over a month (Yikes!). If you have followed my blog long enough you know I was homeschooled for migraines for a year and a half and this is my first year back at a "normal" school. We started late August and it has been a bumpy ride. I have been at school but I also have stayed home with awful migraines at least once a week, but averaging 2 days missing. So as a result I have spent every waking hour doing home work, in bed sleeping off a headache, and/or making up missed school work. Long story short I am so sorry I haven't blogged in a while, and I missed y'all so much! On to what you all are here for, my test results for the SOAP panel scents! (HERE is my first impression post)
I will start us off with the recipe I used for each test, all the variables are identical except for the fragrance oil and the mica swirl on top (which corresponds to the fragrance use).
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All the bars are gelled but the little pumpkins are not gelled, Sadly not all of my tests got a pumpkin (don't ask what happened to them, even I am not sure where the went) also all the batches had .5 oz of the sample fragrance added into it, with nothing else but lye, water and oils.
Mystery Fragrance #1
Trace Speed- Slow to average, very easy to work with.
Color of Bar- Tan to light brown.
Post Soaping Scent Fading- stayed strong at 1/2 oz per pound of soap.
Summery- It is a defiantly a sweet, vanilla, bakery type scent. In the soap it developed more and into a snickerdoodle-y scent.
Mystery Fragrance #2
Trace Speed- Average, easy to work with.
Color of Bar- a light beige
Post Soaping Scent Fading- Stayed strong at 1/2 oz per pound of soap.
Summery- It still rings Christmas forest to me. Not as christmas tree like as it was out of the bottle but just a nice pine forest, maybe with a touch of sugar.
Mystery Fragrance #3
Trace Speed- Average, again easy to work with.
Color of Bar- a very, very light yellow.
Post Soaping Scent Fading- stayed strong at 1/2 oz per pound of soap.
Summery- I still think is ylang ylang, it has lost some of its herbal-iness and the floral notes are more upfront.
Mystery Fragrance #4
Trace Speed- Slow to average, very easy to work with.
Color of Bar- tan to light brown,just a tinge darker than mystery fragrance #1.
Post Soaping Scent Fading- stayed strong at 1/2 oz per pound of soap.
Summery- This is a very sweet, fruity type fragrance. It has mellowed out in to a b=much more pleasant scent than it was out of the bottle. I would guess it is a cherry candy inspired fragrance.
Final rating for the first four fragrances
1. Mystery Fragrance #2
2. Mystery Fragrance #3
3. Mystery Fragrance #1
4. Mystery Fragrance #4
Tomorrow I will post the second set of data and the final ratings. Can you I really am trying to make up for my absence? Three posts in two days and hopefully a post at least once a week from here on out as long as I'm not making up 50 different assignments! Then coming this week the Soap Queen blog should have a post combining pertaining to the SOAP panel!
Thanks for stopping by and happy soaping!
Sounds like you've got a lot going on lately! I hope the transition back to school is going well. So sorry to hear about the migraines - they must make things difficult. It looks like your testing is going well, though. I think #2 and #3 sound like they would be my top two favorite scents from this group, too.
ReplyDeleteThank you! 2 and 3 were defiantly in my total top 4,but I liked pretty much all of them though!
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