When it comes to scenting handmade soap, the possibilities are endless. There are so many amazing scents to choose from — so many that it can be overwhelming. Learn about the difference between essential oils and fragrance oils to help you choose the best option for your recipe. If you prefer natural scents, essential oils are a great choice. That involves heating the components until a gas is released, then condensing the gas back into a liquid.
Learn more in our Essential Oil Philosophy. You can choose from tea tree, lavender, peppermint, and more. Find out how much to use in your recipe with our Fragrance Calculator.
If you like more complex scents, you can blend the essential oils. That means there are fewer options to choose from. Fragrance oils are synthetic. Just one fragrance oil can be made up of materials — luxury perfumes are often made with 5 times that number. We choose all our fragrances based on how they smell after 6 weeks of curing in cold process soap.
Like essential oils, make sure to read the descriptions. Some fragrances accelerate cold process soap and others discolor. Not all of them work for certain designs.
Espresso Fragrance Oil discolors, so we chose a brown color palette for this Coffee Soap. Which option you choose comes down to personal preference. We recommend experimenting with both — you may find you prefer one or the other, or you like using fragrance oils and essential oils. Bramble Berry Inc. Search Catalog Search. Shop by Product. Additives and Lye.
Essential Oils. Fragrance Oils. Bath Bombs. Body Care. Many people apply essential oils directly to skin or use it during their baths. Others may apply it through an olfactory system, such as a humidifier. Nature is complex and essential oils are made of more than just scent components, which is why they are so difficult to recreate. When we isolate only the natural aromatic components from a plant, we miss out on the potential benefits the plant could offer.
However, fragrance oils do enhance the aroma of many cosmetics and perfume products, as well as candles they hold a better scent in hot temperatures. It is important to note that every individual is different and there are cases where individuals may be still allergic to components from an essential oil.
Just because it is all natural does not mean it works for everyone. Essential oils have recently become more popular due to the "all natural" trend. It's important to know that the quality of essential oils can vary widely.
The quality of a batch of essential oils can be impacted by:. Essential oils are typically pricey and vary depending on the type of oil, the season of the year, and the availability of the product.
We typically expecte essential oils to be more expensive than their fragrance oil counterparts. This is because it is costly to plant, grow, harvest, and distill the plant for essential oils. We want to emphasize that it takes an enormous amount of plant material to produce even a small quantity of essential oil.
Take rose essential oils for example, which is priced quite high because it requires a precise and timely extraction process, where around rose petals are required to make just one drop. Citrus essential oils, on the other hand, are normally cheaper because they are a lot easier to extract. Fragrance oil, unsurprisingly, its much cheaper due to the ability to manufacturer it and no need for extraction often a very expensive process.
When we started in , we committed to using only essential oils. We only began looking into natural fragrances after receiving high volume customer requests to create a unique, delicious berry scent that could not be found through essential oils. Jubilee Jam is one of our most popular bars, but we are still very careful and slow in how we choose to expand our new scents through natural fragrances.
However, one important aspect to consider is the impact on the Earth. As essential oils are agriculturally intensive to produce, we need to examine whether natural fragrances can provide the same benefits but with a more eco-friendly impact.
This is something that we are continuously re-evaluating as we need to balance the benefits and disadvantages of each approach. Candles typically use fragrance oils for good reason. Fragrance oils are able to hold a much stronger and longer scent. As essential oils are also very costly, it would take a significant amount of essential oils to scent a candle.
In our candles, we use a blend of essential and fragrance oils. Our primary requirement is that the fragrance is phthalate free. Phthalates are used to dissolve raw materials when making fragrance oils. Understanding just how different these two oils are from each other needs to start in how they are produced. Essential oils are produced with plants while fragrance oils are produced with chemical compounds. Yes, there is much more that goes into the actual manufacturing process, but the main difference between the two really does come down to essential oils actually requiring the plant in order to have the scent created.
Fragrance oils do not require any plant matter to create the scent you are experiencing. If you are looking for the most intense scent per unit, fragrance oil candles win.
That is to say, if you take a single drop of essential oil and a single drop of fragrance oil and you put each in a different candle, the candle with fragrance oil will have the more intense scent 9 out of 10 times.
Fragrance oils are manufactured specifically for the purpose of delivering a strong scent that makes an impact. For this reason, specific scents can be pinpointed and delivered in high concentrations. If you want to see an example of a candle with strongly concentrated scent, check out our Espresso Stout Camping Candles ; these are strong scented, and would be difficult to replicate through an essential oil candle.
Essential oils have a difficult time providing the same scent profile per quantity of oil. This means essential oil candles often require more oil to achieve a similar scent intensity. This is primarily due to the fact that essential oils are not diluted with a benign carrier oil.
Since they are being presented to you in their purest, non-diluted form, essential oils are more concentrated. How long do essential and fragrance oils hold their scent? There is no easy answer because so many variables impact the shelf life of either, but when used in a candle the shelf lives tend to be pretty comparable. Since every fragrance oil is comprised of different molecular compounds that dissipate at different speeds it is difficult to say with absolute certainly how long each will last.
The industry standard for candle makers using fragrance oils is to assume the fragrance oil has an approximate shelf life of 12 months. This shelf life translates pretty consistently to candles made with fragrance oils.
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