Fresh Banana in CP

[lizflowers42]

I have several bananas that are about ready to become banana bread...because that's usually what happens to bananas in the Flowers' Household. I would love to try adding them pureed into a beer soap (someone gave us some banana bread flavored beer, and neither my husband nor I enjoy it), so we've been housing this bottle of beer in the fridge for over a year, no one ever wants to try it when we offer it to guests (probably how we inherited them in the first place!). It has a slight banana scent and is a nice amber color, so it will look good in soap.

I'm thinking of adding the pureed banana at trace with some ground oatmeal too. Any suggestions on what percent of these 2 should go into the trace mixture? I am freezing the beer like I did with my last batch, after it has been left to go flat for a week.

 

[Scentapy]

Puree the banana to replace a portion of your water.

FYI - The banana will turn your soap a light brown color.

 

[Lindy]

Banana is going to add some fantastic properties to your soap. When reducing the water for the banana don't take more than 25% of the weight of the banana out as water because it is rather thicker than water....

I think this is going to be fantastic soap!

 

[lizflowers42]

Lindy, I am assuming this is one that I would encourage not to gel due to the sugar content?

 

[Lindy]

I would definitely be soaping very, very cool to keep the sugar content under control. If you're mould is small enough to fit in your freezer I would put it in there for about 48 hours. I usually let my soap gel, but that is just me. Banana Beer soap huh.... great idea! I've made soap with cheese and that was pretty wonderful and I have powdered banana but it hadn't occurred to me to try a fresh banana....

 

[lizflowers42]

Here's the beer: http://www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk/home/our-beers/ales/wells-banana-bread-beer

So adding fresh banana seemed to fit naturally with this one. I will probably make a small batch, and use a pringles can (lined) for the mold, and leave outside (it's a blisterly-breezy 7 degrees F today...)

Cheese soap? :?: A friend of mine wants me to make him "Cheese-It" soap, like the crackers. They sell a FO that's supposed to smell like it, but I really can't bring myself to doing it...unless he buys the FO. HA!

 

[Lindy]

Sounds like a plan to me....

 

[lizflowers42]

Sigh. I spilled the beer. So no more banana beer. Instead I will use some blackberry flavored beer that my husband bought for me thinking I would love it...fruit and beer don't mix...unless you drink Frambois...that's tasty stuff.

 

[Lindy]

Oh no :shock: Blackberry beer huh - that should be even more interesting. Just make sure all the alcohol and carbonation is gone and I think I would reduce it to 20% then add it at trace and use water for my lye. That beer will probably volcano with lye....

 

[lizflowers42]

I poured my beer into my blender (planning on whipping out that carbonation) , however I didn't secure the base, and I was showered in banana beer. So, plan onto plan B with "cooking" the beer to add at trace.

 

[Lindy]

Oh no! ROFL

 

[JennH]

Here's the beer:

Cheese soap? :?: A friend of mine wants me to make him "Cheese-It" soap, like the crackers. They sell a FO that's supposed to smell like it, but I really can't bring myself to doing it...unless he buys the FO. HA!

If you ever DO want to make a cheese soap, baby food carrots make a very cheesy color. Don't ask how i know...

 

[Lindy]

I used cream cheese and it made an amazing soap. A little hard to work with to get it to melt down properly but it had amazing lather and I scented it - wait for it - cherry so I made Cherry Cheesecake Soap ....

This was part of a challenge with some UK soapers and it was a blast! I still want to do a cheddar one and scent it with a wine FO so it can be my Wine & Cheese soap..... Hmmm maybe we could do that as a soaping challenge here.....

 

[melstan775]

I used cream cheese and it made an amazing soap. A little hard to work with to get it to melt down properly but it had amazing lather and I scented it - wait for it - cherry so I made Cherry Cheesecake Soap ....

This was part of a challenge with some UK soapers and it was a blast! I still want to do a cheddar one and scent it with a wine FO so it can be my Wine & Cheese soap..... Hmmm maybe we could do that as a soaping challenge here.....

Lindy that sounds amazing! YUMMY!@!!!!!!!! Tell me it smelled so deliscious???

 

[DWinMadison]

Does the beer or banana leave any residual scent in the soap or is it purely a texture thing?

 

[DWinMadison]

Got my wheels turning...hops EO would add to the beer scent. From there I would choose lime eo for Corona (my yard work in the summer go-to) or orange eo (btw, thanks to you all, I ordered ogange x5 yesterday...my soaping cabinet grows again) for Blue Moon, my new favorite/favourite beer.

 

[paillo]

Got my wheels turning...hops EO would add to the beer scent. From there I would choose lime eo for Corona (my yard work in the summer go-to) or orange eo (btw, thanks to you all, I ordered ogange x5 yesterday...my soaping cabinet grows again) for Blue Moon, my new favorite/favourite beer.

One of my best sellers is Corona with Lime (lime EO of course). I've also made Fat Tire with cedarwood and sweet orange, and have a batch curing now of Flying Dog's Raging B*tch ale (sweet orange, eucalyptus, patch). I'll have to call it I'm Nobody's B*tch or something similar LOVE soaping with beer, the hops really add something extra.

 

[paillo]

Does the beer or banana leave any residual scent in the soap or is it purely a texture thing?

Don't know about banana, but the beer definitely does leave a wonderfully yeasty residual scent that sticks.

 

[DWinMadison]

Don't know about banana, but the beer definitely does leave a wonderfully yeasty residual scent that sticks.

Do you add hops EO?

 

[DWinMadison]

I've also wondered about making "Elvis" soap with peanut butter an banana.