Yes. But non-coffee soap will do so just as well (unless off course it is garlic-flavoured by itself). AFAIK the coffee-against-smell legends is based on two factors: first coffee has a pleasant smell by itself, that is able to cover off-odours, and secondly the ground coffee (like recommended for fridge desodoration) has a large surface that can absorb stinky molecules. Coffee can't play off either of these two advantages particularly well in soap. That doesn't mean that it's bad, just that it is, like @Arimara has said, more label appeal (and profiting from hearsay) than anything else. That doesn't mean it's useless, just don't expect wonders from it.
SoapDaddy, tossing coffee around like that is very messy! I hope you cleaned up after bad self. Personally I hate cleaning up all the coffee stains my husband leaves behind in the sink, and I don't think he purposely 'throws' the coffee around.
But I neve said it couldn't work. Only stated it was never a concern. Coffee does a marvelous deodorizing things like a bathroom, your fridge, stinky shoes. So if it did work to at least cut that garlic smell, that would be amazing.
I wish all my husband's coffee mess was contained behind the sink. He's often carrying a cup around with him and leaves a coffee trail wherever he goes. May be time to buy him a tippy cupPersonally I hate cleaning up all the coffee stains my husband leaves behind in the sink, and I don't think he purposely 'throws' the coffee around.
Thank you! Just got home after a disappointingly slow market day and your note was a real pick-me-up.
I was only speaking the truth there. I don't know if caffeine's properties stick around in CP soaps (or HP for that matter.) I guess you'll find out after those soaps cure.Thank you! Just got home after a disappointingly slow market day and your note was a real pick-me-up.
LOL
Because I travel & stay in many various hotels & motels, I do periodically stay in smelly places. And because most of them provide a coffee pot with usually 2 packets of coffee (1 regular & 1 decaf), what I do with those packets is use them as odor absorbers. I open the packets to expose the coffee and put them in whatever spot might need it most. It has always helped, unless the room reeks of a horrendous odor or cigarettes, then I exchange rooms (I always ask for non-smoking rooms, but sometimes the clerk doesn't always catch that request).I dont know about how well coffee deodorizes when its in soap personally, but i can tell you that at the hospital the ER nurses put coffee next to stinky patients lol.
So if you happen to wake up in the hospital with a filter full of coffee grinds next to your bed, you might need to rethink your hygiene practices
Please do report back on the roast, er, I mean soap.This is indeed a mystery in need of a solution, so tomorrow I'm making a pot roast with loads of onion and garlic. In the name of science, I will thoroughly immerse my hands in the seasonings and then wash up with the coffee soap. It will only be a week old (the soap, not the pot roast), but this mystery is too intriguing to wait for a full cure. I will report back soon.
