Giving Vanilla Another Swirl

As I explained in my article, Using Vanilla or Vanilla Fragrance Oils in Your Soaps, vanilla, and vanilla-containing fragrance oils will turn your soap brown...sometimes a deep brown. And it's not just "Vanilla" scents that will do it. Many fragrance blends use vanilla as a component to help deepen and mellow the blend. Well, if you can't beat it, join it. In a batch I made recently, I embraced the vanilla, and actually used it in a nice swirl.