Play Doh soap :-(
by simplysoap
A couple of days ago l posted this pic on facebook. New soap with a new Magnolia fragrance oil that l hadn’t tried before. I was quite excited, because it looked soooooo pretty, and l was hoping it wouldn’t be one of those fragrances that turned the soap brown like vanilla does.
A quick aside – l always buy my new fragrances in 100ml bottles – there are smaller 15ml or 25ml ones available, but l figure l just can’t be bothered – most of them work out fine once you’ve learned the initial fragrance temperaments and how they behave in soap, so l am usually willing to ‘risk it for a biscuit’ so to speak. Because the odds are if that l only bought a small bottle the tiny batch of soap it was used in would turn out fabulous and then l’d be wishing l had just bought the bigger bottle and made a huge batch to start with. It’s a bit hard getting excited about the design possibilities of three bars of soap LOL.
So l used a good 30 mls of fragrance in this 1kg soap loaf, as well as some pretty blue and pink colours and some red soap bits on top. lt turned out lovely if l do say so myself.
Here’s another pic with my Peppermint Rose christmas soap on the right hand side. The middle loaf is a lemon shampoo soap, and there is a log of Snow Candy on the left of the pic.
So can you imagine my horror when l sniffed it after cutting the bars, and it smells like NOTHING. Nothing whatsoever. Nothingy nothingly nothingness.
If l had to hazard a guess, it has a slightly ‘play doh’ kind of smell, not even a whiff of the nice soapiness you get from an unscented soap. lt’s like the Magnolia smell just morphed into a fragrance sucking monster and took all of the nice bits out of my soap and left it with a sort of rubbery dull after smell.
Not happy Jan!
This one will be going in the grater *sighs* or maybe l will have a go at making some of those little soap balls l see everyone using these days.
You live and learn hey. l will be paying much more attention to those 15ml bottles from now on.
Oh no, what a shame. This one is so very pretty, and the effort you went to with all those curls. I think I’d be having a word to the supplier about that one as I would typically have soaped the fragrance at just 1.5% and expected a damn fine result.
what a shame it’s so pretty – but to cheer you up i’ll still buy it ‘cos i only care about looks
Oh no! I totally dislike it when that happens. I say go for the soap balls as you can make some really cool soaps with soap balls!
It sure is a pretty soap!
Very frustrating when that happens, especially when it is such a pretty soap.
Gorgeous looking soap! Love the gallery too. Wow you have so many pretty soaps! Too bad about the fragrance… I was doing an experiment the other day and completely forgot to put my Essential Oils in… You are such a great photographer! xo Jen
Hi Gabrielle.I’m not sure if I am a lurker I like to think I’m an avid fan. Luvvv the play doh bar, maybe try a more tried and true E/O? would make a fantastic limited edition with Christmas comming up soon. Ouch! did I really say that?
Hmmm, I wonder if the smell would come back, you know, like those goat’s milk soaps that smell awful when you first make them. What a shame, it’s gorgeous!!! Your swirls are amazing on that one (too)… but with these nice colours, it’ll make great inclusions in an all white soap! How inspiring is your blog!!! Might give digiscrapping a bit of a holiday next weekend and make a couple loaves! Got heaps of fragrance I need to use up (not to mention oils!!!)
xx