Kitchen / Hand Soap

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[IrishLass]

For my kitchen soap, I use my regular tallow/lard formula for the shower, but with the addition of either pumice or finely ground coffee grounds. I like to scent my soap with the coffee grounds with a coffee FO, and I scent the one with pumice in it with Lemon Geranium from ScentWorks.

IrishLass

 

[xraygrl]

I have done a couple of different kitchen soaps. The basic formula is the same as the shower soap, but the additives are different.

For one I did a coffee soap unscented...used coffee to make the lye water with and put coffee grounds in it. unscented

the other one I did with poppy seeds as the scrubby and added eo's of orange, lemon, and lemongrass. That one was really great as far as removing onion and garlic smells.

 

[jadiebugs1]

When you use coffee grounds, are you using fresh grounds or are they post pot?

 

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[Bubbles Galore]

The kitchen sink tends to be the first testing station for my bath soap so I will use whichever of the dozens of soaplets I have there but I did also make a soap specifically for the kitchen. I used no fragrance or colour other than coffee. A lemon soap might be nice for the kitchen. May do that next.

 

[MagiaDellaLuna]

I use recycled myself, but just because Coffee is my drug of choice and I'd rather get the most out of it

A woman after my own heart :wink:
Life without coffee is just not worth living.

My kitchen soap has either coffee grounds and vanilla or poppy seeds and Litsea.

I prefer my bath soap "unscrubby", but have some salt soap (first time ever) curing and waiting for my return home.

 

[ChrissyB]

The soap that I have at the kitchen sink at the moment is a 100% co with a 10% superfat, I like the cleansing power of that soap. I like to cook with onion and garlic and all that yummy stuff, and this soap leaves not a trace of those smells. This soap is unscented and uncoloured, I wanted to see how it would look and smell by itself, but I do like the idea of a lemon scented bar for the skin, and with pumic, or even a lemon scented salt bar might be nice for the kitchen sink? I have to make some soaps for xmas pressies, so might to that one this weekend. I think the salt bar would make for a nice scrubby soap at the sink.
In the shower, I use one type for my body, another for my face. And then there's another one in there that I use to wash the kids hair.

 

[xraygrl]

Yeah, I use recycled coffee grounds too. I make a strong coffee to use for the lye and then the grounds go into the soap at trace.

Oh and now that you mentioned Listea, I think that is what I used instead of the orange:

Listea, lemon, and lemongrass. smells GREAT.

 

[nickjuly]

Made one the other week for kitchen, lemon verbena scented with apricot seeds for scrubbies.

 

[Ollieblue]

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[dagmar88]

last week I made a coffee kitchensoap; 3 layers. The first two layers had coffee as liquid at 100%. The first layer was colored with cocoa powder, the second has a little TD, so it has a creamy color with some ground coffee added for texture. For the topping I made some white whipped soap. They look just like little cakes and made the hub hungry (But what doesn't)
Cause we both have very dry hands and the kitchen is the place where we wash our hands most, the soap has 7% SF.
If I remember right it is 25% coconut, 20% palm, 10% almond, 5 % castor and 40 olive.
Have tried the leftovers and it gets rid of all those kitchensmells.