I have made an unscented coffee soap with GM, lard, coconut oil, and olice oil. I would like to scent it with no FO's. I was lookg at coffee bean butter and it's kinda expensive. $31 for an LB. How much ppo would I use and would it scent it noticeably? Also, does it saponify? Thanks!
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also, I saw this listing on ebay for TD, which I want to use for the tops of my cappuccino soap. It's doest say if it's water or oil solulabl. Here is what the listing states.
1 lb. of 99% pure Titanium Dioxide Powder.
Can be used as a white pigment (Pigment White 6),
or sunscreen and UV absorber,
or as a colorant in sops and cosmetics.
and the link...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Titanium-Di...612?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2327d05f14
what do you guys think?
1 lb. of 99% pure Titanium Dioxide Powder.
Can be used as a white pigment (Pigment White 6),
or sunscreen and UV absorber,
or as a colorant in sops and cosmetics.
and the link...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Titanium-Di...612?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2327d05f14
what do you guys think?
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This is the coffee butter that I use. $26 a pound, and that's because coffee is expensive nowadays. It does saponify. You shouldn't use over 5% total imo in your recipe. To scent it noticeably, you may have to use a half pound for a five pound batch, which is slightly ridiculous given the price. Coffee butter doesn't generally retain it's smell through the saponification process though, so even that is a crapshoot
TD is both oil and water soluable. I wouldn't suggest using it the way you would glitter by dusting the top, because TD (and other oxides) will streak on the skin if you do that. It's a powder, so imagine taking some facial makeup powder and just sprinkling it on your soap-it won't last long and it'll make a mess.
Edit: Forgot to mention, you could use white jojoba beads instead for the tops! They're very nice looking and they add a gentle exfoliating quality, imo. I buy mine at BrambleBerry (it's easier for me to buy everything in the same place, haha).
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All TD is not water soluble. I have some TD that is water soluble only and some TD that is water & oil soluble. I've also seen TD that states it is oil soluble only. You could drop the seller a question about it's solubility and see what they say and/or ask them to the link from the original site they bought it from so you can read the description.
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Yep like Squigglz said, Coffee butter does saponify, so you need to run it through a lye calculator in your recipe and the smell doesn't really survive the saponification process very much.
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For 26-31 dollars per pound I would save the coffee butter for leave on products and use coffee f.o. for the soap.
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Coffee EO over at NDA:
http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/coffee-essential-oil-p-223.html
It's pricey, but so is coffee butter. Judging by the reviews, it's really strong too so you wouldn't need as much.
http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/coffee-essential-oil-p-223.html
It's pricey, but so is coffee butter. Judging by the reviews, it's really strong too so you wouldn't need as much.
I asked the seller and this was his response.
"I have both available. One is dispersable in water the other in oils, and hydrocarbons. The oil dispersable is the most widley used and is 99% titanium dioxide. The Water dispersable containes 94% titanium dioxide. Let me know which you would like. You can order both too."
Has anyone ever heard of this. I had no idea! I'm such a greenhooorrrnn!
