Horrible coffee soap disaster

[TheUser]

Decided to try my hand at making a coffee soap. A complex recipe (avocado oil, castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, beeswax, cocoa butter and shea butter) but I've made it before successfully. Everything went smoothly until I added the fragrance oil. I was expecting it to accelerate but not to this level. It literally looks like diarrhea.

I think I'm going to stick with regular soaps at least for a while. The coffee was also a pain to handle as I used frozen coffee so as not to burn it with the lye.

 

[Kari Howie]

Decided to try my hand at making a coffee soap. A complex recipe (avocado oil, castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, beeswax, cocoa butter and shea butter) but I've made it before successfully. Everything went smoothly until I added the fragrance oil. I was expecting it to accelerate but not to this level. It literally looks like diarrhea.

I think I'm going to stick with regular soaps at least for a while. The coffee was also a pain to handle as I used frozen coffee so as not to burn it with the lye.

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Give it a couple days to suck up the juice floating on top. I bet it turns out better than you think it will. If that doesn’t work you might be able to rebatch it.

 

[AliOop]

Ugh, that is a mess! Honestly, with that much oil floating, I'd put it in a crockpot, or a stainless pot on the stove, and hot process it with some additional liquid. You need to get all that oil mixed in with the rest of the soap, and to do that, you will need to get it softened up.

Which fragrance was this, btw? I think we will all want to make sure we don't buy it!

PS - if it is still soft, you may be able to stickblend it in a bowl, or right in the mold. I have done that once or twice, but I also have a stick blender with a very low speed that doesn't spatter. Use very quick bursts and make sure the head is at the bottom of the mold.