Fragrance Oils Review

Blueberry Surprise (www.thechemistrystore.com)

I have to say that I love this one from The Chemistry Store. It does smell sweetly of blueberries but not in a saccharine cloying way. The oil is a slightly brownish color so it will discolor your soaps should you use it. Thankfully, it doesn't accelerate trace in your cold process soaps.


Arabian Spice (www.brambleberry.com)

This has a subtle clove and nutmeg scent. It is warm. I have used this with my sugar scrub soaps and it is divine!!! 1 tsp to a 30 ounce rebatch is strong.


Turkish Mocha (www.brambleberry.com)

I love this fragrance in my coffee soaps. It is warm and delicious without overpowering the coffee scent of the soap. It doesn't accelerate trace in soap, thankfully.

Lia's Natural Soap Review

Hello Rose Garden!! I have posted new videos showing how wonderful Lia's soaps are. Check them out.
http://youtu.be/VUTXxVIRSBo
http://youtu.be/QoRqzLBxmU
http://youtu.be/4ydgCo8KGJo


I love her soaps and I believe the Romantic Vanilla Sandalwood is my new favorite. Thanks Jarmelia!!

Fractured Faerie Tale: Briar Rose

Hello Rose Garden!! This month's mailing is for Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty as most of you may know her. This month's soap is a beautiful yellow color, almost flaxen if you look at it in the correct light. I am taking the story from Italy by Giambattisa Basile's "Sun, Moon and Talia".


*** Mature Content Follows. If you are not at least 18 years of age please stop reading now!!!!!!***

Talia gets a piece of flax stuck under her fingernail and falls down dead. A king finds her, has sexual relations with her and abandons her. (Yeah, necrophilia in a tale?! is what I thought as well but it gets weirder). Nine months later her babies are born and one sucks the flax from underneath her nail and Talia awakens. She names her babies Sun and Moon. The queen finds out (how I have no clue) and cosigns Talia to death but instead the queen herself dies (again, the story doesn't say how) and the rest live happily ever after. Honestly, would you want  to marry a sicko who knocks you up and leaves you because he thought you were a corpse?! Yeah, me neither. Anyway, the soap smells divinely of lilies, lavender and gardenia. I tried to sweeten the smell because the story stinks. ;) :)

Next month is the last, Cindered - Ella and I can promise no babies out of wedlock or any necrophilia.

SALE

Hi everyone!! I just wanted to tell you about the sale that I am having on www.thechandlersrose.weebly.com. You will receive 2 free bars of soap with every purchase. There is no minimum purchase amount. Just order through the website and receive the bars. I am unloading soaps to make way for more fragrance oils. I need the space. :) :)

On another note, I will continue with my soap reviews. Just a reminder, if I have a problem with a bar of soap I will not write a full review. So if you notice that some reviews are sparse it is because I found more issues and pluses. Don't forget to go to the website and purchase.

Soap Swap 2014 Part 1

Hello!! I have been gone for a while but I have had so much stuff going on! But all of that will be part of a different post. This is about the soap swap from the Swaptember page on FB.

 This is the second one that I have tried. I love the colors. The scent reminds me of an Oriental bazaar. The spices in the air at the market, incense burning and some kind of wood stain.

 This was the first that I used and it has a spicy woodsy smell to me. I cannot place it but I love it.

 It lathers really well in lukewarm water. The scent lingers on the body as well. I love the packaging.

 I don't have a tub so I have passed the blue flower bath bomb on to my dad to try out. Hopefully he will remember to tell me what he thinks of it, The Golden Jojoba lotion scented Honeybee is delicious. Too delicious. My daughter actually bit my arm the first day that I wore it!! Crazy child.

 

 

I will eventually try out the rest. When I do I will create a vlog and post on my YouTube channel. Stay tuned.