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I just made my first HP beer soap tonight. I scented it with Vetiver and Cedarwood e.o. Everything went very well and the gel was total : no zap at all, etc.

Therefore - maybe I have been too much "into it", but I find that my (still hot) soap has a yeast smell, apart the ones of the e.o.

I used (unfortunately) a 8.4% beer. It was very flat and I heated it a bit.

What about your experience with beer soap ? Is there a kind of beer we should avoid ? I want to make another batch tomorrow with Guiness, just to try...

Anyway, I cross my fingers, hoping that this bad smell has faded away tomorrow morning ! I musts say that I never drink beer : I don't like the smell.

edited : this morning, the smell is better. I read in many places that the beer soap does not smell beer but this is not totally true (IMO).

Give it some time. That smell will mellow out.

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Irena
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Thank you Soapbuddy. I see that it mellows... Anyway, in the future, I will save my precious Vetiver for something else !
I found a very interesting link that greatly helped me : http://www.natural-skincare-made-easy.o ... -soap.html
I had it on my screen while working. Probably everybody knows it, but then...

I use Guiness to make my beer soap and scent it with patchoulli. After the bar is fully cured ( 6 weeeks ) any hint of the beer seems to be gone and 6 months after the batch was made it is the same. Maybe the patchoulli is covering it but any hint of a beer smell is gone as far as I can tell.

shame, I like the smell of beer.