Thank you, Thank you, to anupaum!

Unchecking emitter did the trick.

You ask about the translucence channel (see the above screenshot of mat room), I use a somewhat unorthadox method of placing a top layer map in the diffuse channel @60% and a second off color layer in the translucence channel @ 40%, I think it gives a much more realistic skin tone across a wide range of lighting setups.

Render is with emitter unchecked, SSS and IDL run with HDRVFX Pond AO