Final Testing - Spring 2013 S.O.A.P. Team

This is the final post of the Spring 2013 S.O.A.P. mystery fragrances, for Bramble Berry.   I will say that I have enjoyed this experience.  It has been so much fun!  I hope I get to have the chance  to participate again in the future. 

For my final post I wanted to see how the fragrances changed the color of the soap.  I decided to use a basic Soy Bean Oil recipe and no colors.  Just plain, natural soap.  Now I wanted to force gel and ended up warming up my stove to about 170 degrees, stuck the soap in the oven and turned it off.  Now I came back and noticed that my soap was starting to bubble!  I started to freak out and ended up taking it out.  I sure hope my fragrances did not burn off during the cooking :)

Here is what I came up with (don't ask why I started the numbering at the bottom...I was obviously not thinking!):

I hope you are able to see the differences in soap.  I don't think the pic is all that great. 

Fragrance #1 Stayed pretty light.  A nice white color.  This one is the fragrance that smelled like apples to me :)
Fragrance #2  Had a tiny bit of darkening to it.  Not enough to see much difference.  This one was the one that had a scent of men's cologne.
Fragrance #3 Also stayed pretty light.  This one was the floral fragrance.

Fragrance #4 is the fragrance that had the scent of Cool Sea Spray.  This one had a little bit of discoloration but not enough to see much difference.
Fragrance #5 is the Pineapple scent fragrance, and it's my favorite!  This one also stayed pretty light and it's a for sure winner for me!
Fragrance #6 Has a Coconut/Vanilla scent to it and it did discolor.  Of all the fragrances this is the one that discolored the most.

 



Fragrance #7 was my least favorite...the scent was like Dirt :)  ...wet forest.  No discoloration to it as well.

All in all, the fragrances behaved really well.  I soaped with just about all of them at about 95-100 degrees.  I had no problems with ricing or acceleration with any of them.

Thank you once again to Bramble Berry for such an awesome experience!  I look forward to the big reveal!

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Happy Soaping!!!

Roxana