I finally got around to making this and I used every single trick I could think of. First I melted my oils and made sure everything was cool. I even refrigerated a few oils so it would cool the room temp oil further. Then I mixed in my fragrance into my base oil. With it evenly dispursed before adding the lye water this seems to make things move slower. I also made sure my lye water was completly cool (I refrigerated it!) and I also did not use a water discount. I havent soaped at 100% full water since my very first batches of soap. I also kept my stick blender in the cupboard and stirred by hand. I also added my color into the oil rather than at trace. I stirred and stirred it seemed, trace didnt happen too fast at all! If I do this again I will do the same techinique only I will do a swirl, now that I know I can handle this oil with a few tricks! The color turned out spot of perfect, a nice bright cheery pink. I added a sparkley swirl on top of deep pink. It is still a bit soft but hardening up very nicely. The full water is why it is still soft, after about 3 weeks it could still be a little soft but eventually it will be rock hard like my other soaps. Im very happy with how this turned out!
I usually order sampler sizes in the more expensive fragrance oils so I dont get stuck with a very expensive bottle of something I find revolting but for some reason I ordered a full size of Vanilla Pear it sounded great and when I got it I was very pleased. I think this could be a very good seller. This fragrance oil discolors brown like most other vanilla containing oils. That was a major drawback for me. I didnt want brown soap that smelled like pear. I wanted green and yellow soap that smelled like Pears!! So I went very very heavey on the titanium dioxide for 2/3s of the batch and only scented that part. I took the other third of the batch and split it in two and colored them in green and yellow. Im a week into the discoloration and as it stands the uncolored/fragraced portion has discolored to a light tan, it looks GREAT with the yellow and green swirls in it. I have to admit I am over the scent already though, I made this at the tail end of my first trimester in pregnancy and the scent just got to be too much for me. I do think its a very pleasant scent though, very light, summery and fresh!