Whether you make melt-and-pour, hot process, or cold process soaps, adding fragrances boosts their value and appeal for customers. If you want to create custom scents based on your customers’ preferences, explore masculine and feminine scents. Bulk Apothecary carries a wide range of soap making supplies and fragrance oils that allow you to customize your homemade products.
Masculine Scents
Masculine scents are commonly categorized as woody, earthy, and spicy aromas. Soaps with masculine scents have rich, fresh notes that come from herbal ingredients, creating an outdoorsy atmosphere. Here are some masculine fragrance oils you can incorporate into your next batch of soaps:
1. Sandalwood and Amber
Our sandalwood and amber fragrance oil brings a warm, woody aroma to soaps. Sandalwood bark offers a leathery and subtly sweet scent, making it ideal for creamy, high-lather soaps. Amber contributes a deep warmth to the overall aroma. This rich fragrance oil is compatible with bar and liquid soap formulations.
2. Patchouli Cedarwood
Patchouli cedarwood oil has a fresh, natural scent. This fragrance is inspired by the outdoors and is a great soap additive for customers who prefer slightly minty and smoky scents. The herbal notes of the patchouli blend well with the soft, warm cedarwood to create a therapeutic fragrance.
3. Tobacco Vanilla
The deep, warm aroma of tobacco combined with the sweet, smooth notes of vanilla create a timeless masculine fragrance for soaps. Tobacco vanilla pairs well with a blend of aromatic spices, like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, that complement the main scents and create a relaxing bathing experience. This rich, smoky fragrance oil is a good soap additive for customers who enjoy sophisticated scent profiles.
4. Bay Rum
Our bay rum fragrance oil is a blend of jasmine, rum, and citrus. Its musky scent is complemented by spices like cloves and bay leaf. Adding other fresh spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, creates a warmer fragrance. This masculine scent is ideal for seasonal summer and fall soap products.
5. Mint and Lemon
This clean, citrus scent is crafted with natural ingredients like crushed mint leaves and lemon zest. Other soap additives, like dried lemon verbena leaf and lemon peel granules, help create an exfoliating product that leaves the skin feeling fresh. The warm brown sugar included in our mint and lemon oil blend creates a more intense masculine aroma.
Feminine Scents
Some of the main feminine scent categories are fruity, floral, and sweet. Soaps with these aromas are light and leave a lasting fragrance on the skin. These are some feminine scents to add to your collection of soap making supplies:
1. Buttercream Icing
Our buttercream icing fragrance oil has a sweet, buttery scent that is similar to a gourmet pastry kitchen. The hints of vanilla and lemon add a lighter element to the aroma. Adding this sweet, feminine fragrance oil to melt-and-pour, cold press, or hot press soaps creates a luxurious bathing experience.
2. Apricot and Peach
The apricot and peach fragrance oil is a mix of several fresh fruits, including pear and plum. Notes of jasmine make this fruity scent more floral and musky. This is a sweet, feminine scent that works well with melt-and-pour soap bases.
3. Chamomile
Chamomile adds a gentle, calming fragrance to homemade soaps and pairs well with other therapeutic scents. Our chamomile fragrance oil includes a blend of lilac and rose notes that increase the presence of floral elements. This soft, deep scent is ideal for aromatherapy soap collections.
4. Oatmeal Milk and Honey
Our oatmeal milk and honey oil features a blend of sweet honey and soothing oats and milk. This fragrance oil is ideal for creamy, cold process soaps. Additives that boost the impact of this soap include colloidal oatmeal. This finely ground additive soothes and moisturizes dry, irritated skin, leaving it soft to the touch.
5. Rose and Peony
For a bright, light soap fragrance, use our rose and peony fragrance oil. It has citrus top notes that make it ideal for spring and summer soaps. This fragrance oil also includes jasmine and violet notes that deepen the sweet, floral musk. Dried botanical additives like rose petals and buds add visual appeal to cold press soaps and make your products unique to your brand.
Find High-Quality Soap Making Supplies
At Bulk Apothecary, we carry fragrance oils that are formulated specifically for bar and liquid soap products. The fragrances are tested to confirm their retention and compatibility with melt and pour and hot and cold soap processes. We also carry a range of soap bases and additives to help you create fully customized soaps for your customers. We carry melt-and-pour soap bases and liquid soap bases to help you match the preferences of your customers. Our additives range from dried botanicals and seeds to spices and natural exfoliants. Contact our team or explore our website today to learn more about our soap making supplies.
