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detergent’s smell in my shower gel !!
hi, i ve been facing some issues with my shower gel, i don’t know why adding up to 0.8% of the FO to the formula won’t completely mask the “detergent smell” whereas adding only 0.2% of the same Fragrance oils to a hand wash formula is sufficient. Note that they have roughly the same formula, but the shower gel also contains Plantacare 818, Lamesoft po65 and Polyquat 7 (and NaCl since the handwash is water thin)
Any thoughts? TY!!
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Perfuming is not an easy science to learn. I started off with making essential oil perfumes which almost everybody across the board did not like. But after a few years of experience I formulated a widely beloved proprietary scent. My friend who was a professional perfumer’s only advice was to experiment. After years of trying to improve my perfuming skills, I agree that experimenting is the simplest and possibly the only practical thing you can do. Scents are so delicate that there’s no way to judge what will work or why its different in different products. Do you by chance have a scent in mind? For instance certain FO’s or EO’s compliment or mask scents. Geranium is an excellent masking scent. Vetiver, benzoin, vanilla, are powerful anchors. If you’re using a premade FO blend, it is often made with strength in mind, basically it’s supposed to work. I’ve only had to use 1% or more FO’s in products with ingredients that are incredibly strong smelling even in small quantities like coco butter.
If you can let me know what scent profile you’re trying to achieve, I might have an idea.
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This is excellent advice !!!!
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Perfuming wasn’t my thing so I never got good at it.
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Hi,
Some things come to mind:
1. the fragrance gets somehow “trapped” as the addition of NaCl changes the CMC, and a much larger % of fragrance is needed to overcome that;
2. I would do an knock-out experiment in regards to the three added ingredients- one of them might exacerbate the detergent smell in your formula.
3. I’m still learning, so maybe @ketchito can chime in with some real ideas🙂
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