Exfoliant add ins

[SoapSap]

What-add ins do you use in your soap for a mild exfoliant?

 

[KiwiMoose]

I've used pumice, poppy seeds, desiccated coconut...

 

[bohunk]

My favorite is ground vanilla beans/fiber.

 

[steffamarie]

My personal favorite is oat flour!

 

[Kamahido]

Ground oatmeal. I run oats through a coffee grinder.

 

[cmzaha]

Oat flour. Everything else is just too scratchy for my customers and me. In my men's fragranced soap I use oats I grind in my coffee grinder, but in the women's I use oat flour because it is ground finer.

 

[Obsidian]

I find almost everything scratchy with no exfoliating qualities. Oat flour or oatmeal baby cereal isn't scratchy but again, it doesn't exfoliate.
The only thing I found that does exfoliate and isn't scratchy is super fine pumice.

 

[MGM]

Coffee grounds! They and poppyseed are the most exfoliating and the messiest! (oh wait, you asked for mild....)
My favourite is a soap with finely ground oatmeal and ground hops, but I don't know which (both) is the exfoliant.

 

[steffamarie]

Just got out of the shower after testing a coffee ground soap...glad I didn’t make too much because it is SCRATCHY. Good for a heel scrub maybe or a booty scrub, but not for general exfoliation imo. I don’t have sensitive skin and I am an avid user of Korean Italy towels (not for the faint of heart) but the coffee was too scratchy and also left traces behind after using it as a booty scrub (and by that I mean...crack action. Yowwwchh).

 

[Dawni]

Activated charcoal, when it's not super fine. Just the right amount of scratchy for me n mine...

Basil seeds also, and chia seeds.

 

[KiwiMoose]

Ground oatmeal. I run oats through a coffee grinder.

oh yeah - I use this too