The second most important thing is that there are 3 key ingredients to a perfume recipe: essential oils (extracts from various plants, organic or non-organic, that combined, give you smell of your perfume), pure grain alcohol and water.

Another thing you should know about oils, plant extracts is that there are 3 different types of oils which will ultimately influence smell of your perfume in time. The base notes will be scent that will stay longest on your skin and that is why it is usually added first in mixture. The middle notes will also influence smell of perfume for a pretty long time, although not as long as base notes, while top notes will give perfume its specific scent when just applied. The top notes will be added to mixture after middle notes and may be followed by some other substance to bridge scents. It is very important that you mix extracts in given order and that you use a sufficient quantity of each type, usually same for all three.

Last, but not least, here’s a list of most easily found oils that may lead you to your dream perfume:

1. Base notes – sandal wood, vanilla, cinnamon, mosses, lichens, ferns;

2. Middle notes – lemongrass, geranium, neroli, ylang-ylang;

3. Top notes – orchid, rose, bergamot, lavender, lemon, lime.

One more thought to take into consideration above all… have fun!

Let this set for 24 hours covered, unmold your soap, cut, and you should have a nice tri-colored bar of soap with a triangle to side. I have found these soaps to be much sought after by customers as they are a nice novelty for their bathroom decor.

Another way to put nice designs in your soap would be to use a mold that makes individual bars of soaps instead of blocks.

First, make a plain white base to fill your mold. Then remove a cup or two from your batch. Add colorant to cup of mixture, and then pour this into a cake-decorating bag. Use this mixture to write colorful designs onto bottom of your mold.

Once you have completed this, then CAREFULLY spoon your white base mixture on top of this, being very careful not to disturb your writings.

Once you have spooned a few inches over your writings, then you can carefully pour rest of your soap into your mold (do this in one corner so that should your writing be disturbed only one section will be messed up). Let this set for 24 to 48 hours. Unmold and cut into bars.

When you unmold your soap, bottoms will have your designs permanently embedded into your bars of soap. This is yet another intriguing method used to decorate your soaps.

Be creative and above all, have FUN!