Teach Soap

I usually stay away from FO's with vanilla... first because many of them don't appeal to me and second because I don't like to battle the color change vanilla brings.

But recently I wanted to make a brown soap and it just worked out that the FO's I wanted to use were high in vanilla... and it worked... I got a great smelling batch that was a nice dark chocolatey brown! But the one thing I didn't expect was that I also have brown lather. It's not terrible but more than I expected.

Aside from vanilla stabilizers (which would impact the color) is there something else that can be done to keep the soap from lathering brown? Or does it just go hand in hand with vanilla scents?

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- Mickey!

Most vanilla fragrances will get brown suds. It's just the nature of the beast. There is also non-discoloring vanilla, but it doesn't quite smell the same.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks... that's kinda what I thought but it never hurts to ask.
Aside from the brown suds (which are mixed with white suds) it's a really cool soap... so I can live with that.

I'm building a light box and when that's done I'll post some pics.

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- Mickey!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Hi Vinca !!
Good to see you. I hope all is well with you.

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- Mickey!