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I have been reading how some FO behave in CP and was wondering if someone could explain what the difference behaviors mean when in CP.

Morphing means the fragrance oils smells very differently than what it smells like in the bottle. Some of them change into a plastic-like smell.

Ricing means that after mixing in your fragrance oil, the soap has little rice size particles in it. That can sometimes be fixed by continued mixing or throwing it in the crockpot/double boiler & HP'ing it.

Acceleration is when you put the fragrance oil in and your soap goes from not traced/light traced/medium traced to thick trace or sometimes so thick that it's almost solid.


For fragrance oils that are known to rice or accelerate, I add those fo's in my soaping oils & mix them in good, then add my lye water. It works for all the fragrance oils I've ever tried that with.

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Genny

Great, that helps a lot. I understood the acceleration but had not tried putting those FO in the oils before adding the lye, I will try that next time. Thanks for your information and help.

I always put my scent into the cooled off oils. It's another way so you don't forget to add them.

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Irena
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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Some FO's make your colors morph. For instance, anything with vanilla in it will turn brown as it is cures, most nice pretty purples (natural ones) will turn grayish, and many natural red/pinks will turn gray or brown. These are permanent changes, while some will turn your lye bath an interesting color (usually orange or green) and then will morph back as the soap saponifies.

Scents can also morph. All fragrances smell differently out of the bottle than they do when they are used in a product. That is not really a morph, but more a fact of nature. The bottle is highly concentrated and will naturally smell differently when diluted. A morph happens with some FO's when the scent changes. This change is not just from the bottle to the soap batter, but from the batter to the cured soap, and from the soap at the beginning of the cure time, to the soap during and after the cure. A scent may completely fade at a few days, only to reemerge later in the cure. Or maybe not come back at all until it "blooms" in the shower.
A morph is just a change. Some, like vanilla turning brown, are permanent, and some are transient. This is why soapers usually take notes during the entire soaping process, especially when trying a new fragrance. You should be able to look back and know that the blahblah fragrance fades at 1 week, comes back at 5 weeks, but totally goes flat at 3 months never to reappear, or any other variation thereof.

Enjoy the journey~

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Tammy

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I do this, too. Some will still accelerate, but it's much less when the FO is added to the oils first.

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

is it also recommended to skip gelling?

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!