Vanilla Sandalwood

This vanilla & sandalwood fragrance turned the soap a darker brown than we'd anticipated, but it smells so luscious that we don't even care! (Discoloring soaps to brown is a "thing" with vanilla fragrance oils, so we really shouldn't have been surprised!). Anyway, the blend of creamy, rich vanilla with warm Indian sandalwood is really something special.  These cold processed soaps are made with saponified olive, organic coconut, sustainable palm, almond, and castor oils; shea butter; goat's milk; kaolin clay; mulberry silk; and sugar, formulated to offer a rich, creamy lather with pleasantly bubbly foam. Each bar weighs at least 4.7 ounces. The other ingredients, not related to lather, bubble type, and skin feel, are skin safe micas, phthalate free fragrance oils, and sodium lactate (the salt component of lactic acid, used for hardening soap). Sodium hydroxide (lye) is added to oils early in the soap making process. Lye and oils combine in the saponification process, chemically tra