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Searching for a New S.O.A.P. Panel!

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Do you love testing new fragrances in your soapy projects? Here at Bramble Berry, we receive hundreds of fragrance oil samples. To help choose the very best fragrances to add to our line, we are looking for eight new members to join our S.O.A.P Panel! As part of the panel, you will have the opportunity to test eight new mystery fragrances, and help us decide which new scents to add to our lineup.

Each member of the panel will receive eight 1 oz. bottles of fragrance oil. These fragrances can be tested in cold process, melt and pour, lotions or other bath and body products. To keep opinions unbiased, the fragrances will not have names, but instead will be labeled with a number. Not knowing the name is part of the fun!

At the end of the testing and reviewing process, each S.O.A.P. Panel member will fill out a survey regarding the fragrances. We then review this survey, and choose the very best fragrances to add to our line. While not a requirement, many S.O.A.P. (aka: Soap Opinion Awesome Panel) members share their opinions and test results on their blog, Facebook pages or other social media outlets. We love hearing your honest opinions regarding the fragrances, so an ideal member of the panel won’t hold their feelings back!

Previous S.O.A.P. panel fragrance winners were: Mandarin Oasis Fragrance Oil, Mahogany Fragrance Oil, Autumn Fig Harvest Fragrance Oil, Lavender and Cedar Fragrance Oil, and Heavenly Honeysuckle Fragrance Oil.

Note: S.O.A.P. Panel members have about 7 weeks to test the fragrances. Please make sure you will be able to commit to testing all fragrances before entering. Because these fragrances can’t ship internationally, we are not able accept international entries.

This old post is a great example of what previous S.O.A.P. panel members have done for testing, blogging and tweeting. If you’d like to see more examples of how S.O.A.P. Panel members have shared their opinions and test results, check out the links below!

Want to join in the fun? Entering is easy!

To Enter:

  • Tweet, Facebook, Pin, Instagram or blog about your favorite Bramble Berry product (including the links) and why you should be selected for the S.O.A.P. team.
  • Comment on this blog post, with links to your social media updates.
  • The last day to enter is August 28th. You can still post about your favorite BB product, but you won’t be considered for the panel!
  • S.O.A.P. Panel will be announced by September 5th and samples will be sent out by September 10th.
  • Completed surveys need to be returned by November 3rd. 

    Ready, Set … Apply! =)

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163 Comments

    • Hi Penny!

      It will be announced sometime this week. Keep your eyes peeled on our blog! 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  6. I thought I had submitted already but it’s not showing up…my apologies if I’m repeating myself !

    I forgot to mention, I am in Canada (right on the border across from Blaine, WA) but I get all my BB orders sent to a mailbox in Blaine – so no shipping concerns here!

    Many thanks,
    Kathleen Taschuk

  7. For your consideration: https://www.facebook.com/pakamper

    Bramble Berry is my favorite and first source for specialty soap supplies! I love sharing the joys of soapmaking on facebook with my friends. I know when I buy fragrances or oils from you guys, I can trust it’s a quality product! I would be honored and excited to be part of the team that assists in bringing that quality to market!

  9. I would love to try out mystery fragrances in my CP soaps…plus I am a real chemistry geek!

    I tried posting yesterday but I guess I did not submit!

    Below are my facebook posts about Bramble Berry…I talk about how AWESOME the rose clay is but everything I have tried has been fantastic!

    https://www.facebook.com/greenergirl2005/posts/835774899768215

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=835770583101980&set=a.325400277472349.85759.100000071398670&type=1

    • Hi Melissa!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for your submission. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel for sure. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hi Stephanie!

      We can’t accept international entries because these fragrances won’t ship internationally. Sorry about that!

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hi Melissa!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for your submission. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

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  21. Here I posted on my FB page where I make and sell soaps, etc. I would love to try new fragrances and review them!!!

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  24. I’ve loved every single product I have ever gotten from Bramble Berry, but your fragrance oils are my favorite. They are the best quality fragrance oils I have ever tried, hands down!! I would love to make videos of the S.O.A.P. mystery oils testing process to share on my soaping YouTube channel!

    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/bookmarklet/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fproductimages.brambleberry.com%2FFO250_TobaccoBayleaf_FragranceOil.JPG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brambleberry.com%2FTobacco-Bay-Leaf-Fragrance-Oil-P5801.aspx&description=Tobacco%20%26%20Bay%20Leaf%20Fragrance%20Oil%20%7C%20Bramble%20Berry%C2%AE%20Soap%20Making%20Supplies

    https://www.facebook.com/ShawneeBotanicals

    • Hi Jennifer!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for your submission. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel for sure. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hi Kevin!

      Hi Melissa!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for your application. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  27. I love all of your products but right now my favorite product is you Lotion Bar kit. I love your fragrances too! It would be such a treat to be part of your Soap Panel.
    [email protected]

  28. i would love to be on the S.O.A.P panel. Love trying new fragrances and testing to see what i like. New favorite. Tobacco and Bay leaf FO— Melissa Kenny (@mkenny00) August 23, 2014

    Love several Bramble Berry FO’s!!! Favorites are Fresh Snow, Tobacco and Bay Leaf, and Island Coconut. Relaxing is my all time favorite!!!

  29. i would love to be on the S.O.A.P panel. Love trying new fragrances and testing to see what i like. New favorite. Tobacco and Bay leaf FO— Melissa Kenny (@mkenny00) August 23, 2014

    Love several Bramble Berry FO’s!!! Favorites are Fresh Snow, Tobacco and Bay Leaf, and Island Coconut. Relaxing is my all time favorite!!!

    • Hi Melissa!

      Tobacco and Bay Leaf is my favorite! Thanks for your entry. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hello!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for applying. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel for sure. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hi Margaret!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for applying. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel for sure. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  38. I love so many products I get from Bramble Berry. The TD that mixes so well in oil or water is a life saver. The 9 small balls silicone mold, the silicone liners, all the fragrances, but I would say my most favorite thing about your company is the people who work there. I know they are not a product but the are the reason I keep coming back to order. I had problem with an order and they fixed it right away. Great customer service. If I have to pick a product it would be Energy fragrance oil. One of my top selling scents.

    I think if I was on the SOAP Panel I could bring fresh eyes and nose to the process. It my sound funny but I think the scents speak to me. I design my soap around the scent first. I smell the scent first and second build a design for the scent. I think the scent tells me what it wants to look like in the soap. Sometimes it’s the same as what I had in mind and sometimes the soap throws me a twist.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hill-Mail-Order-Company/171778559671851

    • Hello!

      Thank you so much for saying that, it means a lot to us. 🙂

      Also, thanks for entering!

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  41. It’s soooo hard to pick A product! I love my silicone molds, I love my lavender petals and jojoba beads, but because I am a fragrance hound then that’s what I will go with. The problem is that there are still soooo many favorites! Right now I will say my latest fav is Saffron and Honey…….oh my goodness!!! I used it in CP soap I call Pashmina……..it is so warm and inviting with just the right exotic touch. Because Bramble Berry products and tutorials gave me the instruction and confidence that I needed to make soap and now start my own little boutique in September, I think it’s only fitting to be picked for the next SOAP panel. And i would be so honored! https://www.brambleberry.com/Saffron-and-Honey-Fragrance…

  42. Hi,

    I should be selected for the S.O.A.P because I have a keen sense for selecting excellent fragrances.

    I been a BB customer for over 3 years now and it is by far my favorite supplier. I am in WPB, FL and I choose you guys over local suppliers. It would be an honor to be in your SOAP team.

    My FaceBook Link is,I added a comment about your amazing Fragrances!

    https://www.facebook.com/Moonlightradiancecouturesoapsmarket

    My website page is http://www.moonlightradiance.com

  43. I would love to be on the panel! I make a variety of bath and body products–just getting into soaping–but it would be so much fun to try these new fragrances and see how my customers like them!

  45. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Bramble Berry products!!!! – I would LOVE to be on the SOAP panel – All my soap’s are made with fresh goat’s milk, hand milked from our very own dairy goats! As a goat milk cold process soaper I feel I would give diversity to the SOAP panel! Thank you Bramble Berry for all you provide for your customers!

    https://www.facebook.com/NelsonFarmsTN

    • Hi Rae!

      Just to let you know, this comment got filtered and we just now found it. Sorry for the delay! We’re still getting adjusted to our new blog design.

      Thank you so much for your submission. We will keep this on hand for the next S.O.A.P. Panel for sure. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  48. What an honor to even be considered to be a fragrance tester! I would love to be one of your S.O.A.P. testers. I homeschool so I have a partner in crime that would be helping me to sniff and create soaps to try these possible new fragrances. Like others, I have a hard time listing just one favorite Bramble Berry item… I love the homeschool unit study which we are using now (it actually makes him want to “do school”!). I love my vertical mold and my 9 bar birch wood mold (it is so beautiful!) Can you tell we joined the spring and summer soaping clubs? I guess you can add that to my favorites… A soaping club! That is such a fabulous idea and I hope it continues!

    I also posted to everyone on FB about this opportunity. If I can figure out Twitter, I will tweet about it too. That’s just how excited I am!

    Again, thank you for this opportunity!

  49. I would love to be apart of this panel. I make cold process soaps, melt & pour (all my bases I get from BB–they are the best), fragrance oil (I get my fractionated coconut oil from bb and 3/4 of my fragrances from here also), and bath salts. Needless to say–this is my favorite place to shop for me right now….much to my husband’s chagrin (he wants me to go clothes shopping–boo). I wold really enjoy testing out each fragrance. Thanks!

    Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/Twenty8North/status/501591735571861505

    Pinterest:

    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/530017449869836381/

    • Hi Anna!

      They’re so good for soaping! Thanks for your entry. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  51. OOOOO!!!!! I wish I could… the timing isn’t quite right for me at this time but man this would be so fun!

    I start playing with this hobby once I move into my new place…. I have been holding back for 3 months to start making soap…. I am so ready to get on this adventure!

    • Hi Jordan!

      I understand, it does take some time! Look out for our next S.O.A.P. panel. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  53. Good morning/afternoon/evening,

    My name is Lisa and I am from Philadelphia, PA and I would love to be part of this wonderful S.O.A.P panel. Being creative is not only my passion but it is my life. I love trying and creating new items whether it’s a diaper cake, party favors, fragrances, whatever you name it. I would be a great asset to your panel because I would test the mystery fragrances not only just in soap, but in lotions, creams, body sprays and candles and give my opinion on how well the fragrances work for each body product. I hope to be one of the eight chosen for the panel because I love everything about Brambleberry. 🙂

  55. Hi guys! I would LOVE to be picked to be part of the S.O.A.P panel!! I love love LOVE your fragrance oils and I wish I could try them all! I would really appreciate the opportunity to try out the new scents in both cold process as well as some melt & pour projects. I love to see how a new fragrance oil will react to the cold process soaping!

    If I had to choose my favorite Bramble Berry item (oh that is SO hard!!) I would have to say it is the Coconut Citrus Sorbet. It smells so good that when I used it in my body butter, it made me want to stick a straw in it and slurp! It smells just like a Pina Colada and my brain immediately is in a beach chair under a big umbrella with a icey cold Pina Colada in my hand.. ahhhh…. Love that scent!

    http://lindseylathers.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/curing-selling-and-testing/

    https://www.facebook.com/SoapyStarfish

    I love all things Bramble Berry as you can see in my blog.

    Love & Bubbles,

    SoapyStarfish

  57. I love the fragrance oils from Brambleberry!!! They behave nicely in soap and stick very well. I have yet to find one that didn’t meet up with expectations. My favorite so far is a close call between the Vanilla Bean and the Southern Peach. Having some new fragrances to try would be an honor and a ton of fun! I do try to keep things natural as possible, but I also know that your fragrances are excellent quality.

  60. I so hope I get picked to be a panelist! I love BB products, esp the fragrances. I always have people begging for my CP soaps and lotions.

  62. BRAMBLEBERRY IS ONE OF THE BEST COMPANIES TO ORDER YOUR SOAPMAKING MATERIALS…THEY HAVE THESE AMAZING KITS THAT INCLUDE EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED FOR A PERFECT BAR OF SOAP…THEY ALSO HAVE OTHER KITS AVAILABLE SUCH AS PERFUME KITS. THEIR PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND THE QUALITY OF THEIR PRODUCTS IS OUTSTANDING…I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO BE A PART OF THEIR SOAP PANEL TO TEST NEW FRAGRANCES…BEING A PART OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS WILL ALSO HELP ME BE ABLE TO MAKE BETTER SELECTIONS IN WHEN I PURCHASE MY SUPPLIES…THERE IS JUST SO MUCH TO CHOOSE FROM THAT IT USUALLY GETS OVERWHELMING AND I WIND UP FALLING BACK ON OLD FRAGRANCES THAT I KNOW I LIKE.

    • Hi Melia!

      It is so hard to pick! Thanks for your submission. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  66. I would like to take this opportunity to share to my fan base my favorite company that I purchase products from. Brambleberry has terrific products and by far, has the best fragrances in the business. The scent holds up well in cold process soaps, lotions, bath bombs, and all the other products offered. Brambleberry is holding a contest for 8 contestants to sample new fragrances that will possibly be offered in the spring of 2015. I would be honored to be chosen as one of these testers. Pictures of products are on my page. Thank you for your continued great service.

    • Hi Kim!

      Thank you so much for your kind words, and thanks for your application! 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  68. This is what I’ve written:

    Brambleberry (one of my suppliers) is choosing some scent testers! I’m so excited, to hopefully be chosen because that means lucky people will receive a free bar of soap- and I’ll be able to donate extra to charity! BB is asking me to name my favorite BB product. And I have to say “JUST ONE?!” They also want to know why I should be selected as a product tester.
    My favorite product so far is the silicone liners for my soap molds. all of my soap- both CP and handcrafted glycerin come out absolutely perfect each and every time! Also, their fragrances are unbeat! Concentrated and strong, many last such a long time (hello, have you smelled my cherry jubilee?!)
    My reasoning for wanting to be selected for a fragrance tester this time would be because I love giving back. Because I have a policy of donating a bar to charity for each bar I sell, I would love to donate the bars I sell, as well as offer the bars as testers to get honest feedback from my friends, family and customers.
    But you tell me- why do YOU think I should be one of BB’s fragrance testers?
    https://www.facebook.com/HomesteadSoapery
    https://www.facebook.com/pinuprubyrose

    • Hi Heather!

      That’s such an awesome policy. Thank you for your submission!

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

    • Hi Christine!

      Fresh goat milk sounds awesome! Thanks for applying. 🙂

      -Kelsey with Bramble Berry

  71. Lychee Red Tea Fragrance Oil! Of the dozens of FO’s and EO’s I have purchased from BB, this one is my all time favorite! Exotic and unique, fresh and fruity! I would love the opportunity to S.O.A.P. to help inspire future generations of soapers!!!!

  74. Hey y’all, I was just wondering- you realize that says “spring 2014” right? Is that for 2015 or did you mean “fall 2014”? (I’m thinking 2015 considering it’s happening in November.)

    Thanks, Just wondering! Oh, and I am sharing this on both FB, and twitter! can’t wait!

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    Best of luck to everyone!

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