Coffee soap

[judymoody]

DeeAnna, that soap is lovely and thanks for the photo of your "soap set". I've been using a handmade light box with Ott lamps but your set up looks more versatile

 

[squyars]

Here are my coffee bars. Partially gelled and an bit ashy, but not bad for my third batch.


Williamsburg, VA

 

[TVivian]

Those look nice!!! I seriously could look at soap all day!


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[Eve]

My first soap was a coffee soap - using strong black coffee as liquid for the lye, and the coffee ground from that added as trace for colour, smell and scrub. I think it was about 70% olive oil and 30% coconut oil, with some coconut cream. I use it, it's a hard bar with decent lather, but it smells bad... the coffee scent is gone, and it just smells a kind of sickly sweet - I think natural soap smell, or maybe from the coconut.

 

[DeeAnna]

Nice looking soap, Squyars. Thanks for sharing! The coffee part of mine looks pretty much the same as yours.

Mine had some ash too. I found it polishes off with a soft cloth. Or it dissolves with a quick dip in plain water -- just pat off the drips and let air dry.