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In my recent  Review of the Aroma Zone (AZ) soap making workshop  I've been complaining about a peachy fragrance I bought on the day of the workshop. Before buying it, I've asked if the fragrance was going to work well in Cold Process and the alleged expert said "YES, sure!"  When I got back home, I read on the AZ's website that this fragrance is not great for CP and got quite p****d off. Needless to say, that there's no explanation concerning this statement (does it fade over time? does it affect soap color? Does it ACCELERATE trace?!?) and therefore I had to find out myself... I didn't have much choice in terms of raw materials and I didn't want to invest in new stocks in case something went wrong. Few precautions: 1) I scaled down the amount of total oils in the recipe (325 gr instead of 800 gr) 2) I used silicon moulds (didn't want to spend time lining the wooden mould) 3) I added the fragrance at the very last moment...

I recently went to a soap making workshop  organized by the French company Aroma-Zone ( AZ ) and this blog post is a review of the workshop.  Here you have the full description (in French) of this 1 hour and a half class:  Cet atelier a pour objectif de vous enseigner la technique de la saponification à froid en réalisant une recette de savon surgras. Vous pourrez ainsi repartir avec votre réalisation et tout le savoir-faire Aroma-Zone !  Vous apprendrez à maîtriser les points importants de la réalisation d'un savon saponifié à froid, les diverses astuces de fabrication, la maîtrise des ingrédients, leur mise en oeuvre, leurs bienfaits sur la peau. BRIEFLY , the class should teach you the basics of cold process soaping (soaping tips, management of the critical steps of soap making, control of ingredients and their features), you should make a soap  and bring it home . Everything in 1 hour and a half 😮 !!! I'll review  the workshop by assigni...

This is  SA VA GE LA UR EL   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  40% Coconut oil  25% Palm oil (organic)  20% Bay laurel berry oil 11 % Castor oil  4% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Bay laurel berry oil is from  A roma Z one Scent:  naturally coming from the bay laurel berry oil Colours : 1) arctic pearl metallic mica 2) silver grey metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 1 day as whole bar outside the mould before cutting!