ResolvableOwl
Notorious Lyear
I felt like I had to appease my Camellia sinensis caffeinist me, for selling my soul to coffee lately.
Long-time lurker for giving Tea causes boiling when adding lye? a chance. In the end I couldn't really tell if there was a heat difference to plain water, since I've added 1%TOW of citric acid in form of lime juice to the tea, prior to dissolving the lye into it in many small portions.
A few recipe/process details: 30% lye concentration, with two thirds of the liquid from a strong black tea (1 part leaves + 10 parts distilled water), a loose-leaf tea with caramel flavouring; I'm curious if I would detect anything of this smell after cure (in the brew it's a bit too strong for my taste, I either drink it with plenty of milk, or “diluted” with unflavoured tea). Currently the smell is mostly the weird earthy odour of tea in the alkaline (like when cleaning the thermos flask with soda).
The last third of lye liquid is lime juice. Unlike the vain decoration, it is diabetics-friendly sweetened with sorbitol (1.8%TOW). It's a tiny batch, cast into a PP measuring cup. I needed to soap quite warm (ye know, palm stearin struck again); not gelled, you can tell by the stearic spots, lol (or was the milk sour?). Easy to unmould after 12 h.
Ah yes, and stroopwafels!
Long-time lurker for giving Tea causes boiling when adding lye? a chance. In the end I couldn't really tell if there was a heat difference to plain water, since I've added 1%TOW of citric acid in form of lime juice to the tea, prior to dissolving the lye into it in many small portions.
A few recipe/process details: 30% lye concentration, with two thirds of the liquid from a strong black tea (1 part leaves + 10 parts distilled water), a loose-leaf tea with caramel flavouring; I'm curious if I would detect anything of this smell after cure (in the brew it's a bit too strong for my taste, I either drink it with plenty of milk, or “diluted” with unflavoured tea). Currently the smell is mostly the weird earthy odour of tea in the alkaline (like when cleaning the thermos flask with soda).
The last third of lye liquid is lime juice. Unlike the vain decoration, it is diabetics-friendly sweetened with sorbitol (1.8%TOW). It's a tiny batch, cast into a PP measuring cup. I needed to soap quite warm (ye know, palm stearin struck again); not gelled, you can tell by the stearic spots, lol (or was the milk sour?). Easy to unmould after 12 h.
Ah yes, and stroopwafels!
I read your dedication to international coffee day or whatever it was. That coffee soap looked amazing. I love coffee (hate coffee scrub but like coffee soap). 
