{"id":6166,"date":"2011-06-02T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2017-09-25T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:58:24","slug":"honey-almond-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/honey-almond-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Almond Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of April, I wrote a post about bitter almond essential oil<\/a> and whether or not it should be used in skin care products because I was searching for something natural to use in my Almond Milk lotions. I discovered several products from WSP that smell like bitter almond, but have no actual bitter almond in them. One of them is made with cassia essential oil, which Robert Tisserand, one of the essential oil experts, warns against using on the skin. The other is called a Honey Almond blend which has natural ingredients that are not disclosed, but another soapmaker recommended the product, so I ordered it.<\/p>\n

I’ve made a batch of Honey Almond Hand & Body Lotions which have been raved over by my farmer’s market customers already. There are only 3 available<\/a> at the moment:
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Honey Almond Hand & Body Lotion <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I also made a test batch of Honey Almond soap with goat’s milk:
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Honey Almond soap in the mold<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSeveral of the reviewers mentioned that the fragrance disappeared in cold-processed soap, and the soapmaker who recommended the product said she was pretty heavy-handed with it. So I scented it at 1 oz. per pound of oils – my personal limit on how high I would care to fragrance soap.
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Honey Almond soap cut & cured<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIt’s a very mild milk-soap sort of smell. Pleasant enough, but I’m going to have my friend who LOVES the old Almond Milk soaps smell them and see what she has to say. Did I mention that she’s coming to visit me from Alabama this weekend? I haven’t seen her since our girl’s weekend in Nashville<\/a> about a year & a half ago. We are going to have so much fun!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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