Fresh sounds good on the face of it Gina, but I've not had great success with fresh peel. It goes brown in the soap after a few weeks and then sometime later, gets an "off" smell to it. Has anyone else used fresh peel without problems? Maggie _____ From: soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:soapcraft-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soapcraft Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 4:33 p.m. To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [soapcraft] Re: orange peel Yes I would gring it but why didn't you just use orange peel fresh? Gina On 19/08/10 9:52 AM, "Rouse Pauline A" <Pauline.Rouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have sliced off and dried some orange peel to put in soap but it has gone quite hard and sharp so would it be best to grind it to almost a powder. Pauline