Thank you! Well, as far as the benefits of the carrot juice, or anything like it, I don't think we know WHAT is left, if anything after the lye. I've used carrot juice, pureed carrot, tomato juice, etc. in other soaps, and I think more than anything, there is the label appeal. Hey...if Burt's can do it...... MY reason for using the carrot juice was more for color, as I thought adding more pumpkin would make for a soft soap. While the combination of the carrot juice and the pumpkin temporarily stained my Kelsei mold orange, you can see that the resulting soap was NOT orange...so there went that theory too!