Using liquers in CP soap

[Guest]

I would like to try a batch of soap made with drinks harder than beers. Can this be done? How would prepare a liquor for use in soap? should they be left to sit out uncovered so that the alcohol would evaporate out or even heated up on the stove to remove alcohol? I had wanted to try an absinthe bar with real absinthe eo. I had gotten some EOs of absinthe and wormwood but they aren't labeled with anything other than a name, and don't specify what plant or part of the plant they came from. I don't think I should use them for something that goes on my body because I really cant be sure what I am working with. So I will go the route of using the beverage. The beverage has about 60% alchohol. how would you suggest preparing harder drinks for use in soap? Should I simmer out the alcohol and use what remains for all the water or use it as part of the water? Maybe even cut it with flattened beer? I am pretty confident in my abilities to safely use spirits straight up on the stove as I have done it before for other projects not related to soap.

 

[debbism]

There are several good threads to read - just search the term WHISKEY.

From what i did read, hard alcohol is harder to work with than beer or wine since you can't really boil all the alcohol out - beer or wine can be reduced a lot easier I guess, since there is less alcohol. Then there were seizing issues with whiskey BUT if you work with smaller amounts of absinthe, not replacing all the water, but some, it could theoretically be do-able - or combining it with beer sounds like it would be unusual.

Absinthe soap made with real absinthe has some serious label appeal so why not try a test batch? When you do, take lots of pics to share!!!

I am not as big a fan of absinthe myself, but I would love to see what chambord would be like.

 

[Fragola]

For absinthe, I would try to reconstruct the recipe from scratch, using oil instead of alcohol as a medium.

If you're boiling the hell out of real absinthe, you will lose a lot of flavor.

 

[Guest]

Thank you guys. I do also think that heating the liquers would *******ize the beverage itself. I found a blog talking about using spirits in soaps and it said that insead of substituting it for the water, to just reduce the lye water by 25% then add that 25% in liquor at medium trace (straight out of the bottle)... and that the HP method would work best as its more forgiving than CP. I tried it, and it came out wonderfully and the bars smell of the drink! I posted pics in the pic sharing category.

 

[judymoody]

Personally, I'd rather drink the stuff.

I liked the look of your absinthe soap though.