Cup of Coffee Soap using Fair-trade Organic Coffee
When it comes to coffee, tea and chocolate, I have one rule...Fairtrade! Organic is an added bonus, but my coffee, tea and chocolate must be Fairtrade. This lovely cold process soap is made from strong brewed coffee and coffee grounds. This is not an "all natural" soap, as it contains Fresh Coffee fragrance, and even though other people's soaps are still marketed as being "natural' when they contain fragrance, I do not make those same claims. For me, a natural soap must be just that...natural, and that means using only pure essential oil as fragrance.
This is a beautiful soap that smells wonderful! If you love the aroma of fresh brewed coffee with a hint of vanilla, then you will love this soap!
Note: Be Safe!
Wear your eye protection. Use gloves. Mix your lye solution away from children or pets. Mix your lye solution under the exhaust in your kitchen. No bear arms, feet or legs!
This is a beautiful soap that smells wonderful! If you love the aroma of fresh brewed coffee with a hint of vanilla, then you will love this soap!
Note: Be Safe!
Wear your eye protection. Use gloves. Mix your lye solution away from children or pets. Mix your lye solution under the exhaust in your kitchen. No bear arms, feet or legs!
You will need:
- Plastic or stainless steel bowl
- 2.5 kilo wooden loaf mould lined with greaseproof paper. For instructions on how to line your mould there is a video demonstration for you to view if you click here.
- long handled stainless steel spoon
- hand held blender
- gloves and eye protection
- spatula for scraping out the last of your soap
- plastic jug for mixing your lye and brewed coffee
- small plastic measure for fragrance
- digital scales
Ingredients
- 500g coconut oil
- 500g Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 100g Rice Bran Oil
- 100g Soybean Oil
- 100g Sunflower Oil
- 462g Strong brewed fair-trade organic coffee
- 209.3g Lye
- Coffee grounds
- 30g fresh coffee fragrance (optional)
Yields - 2071g soap
Method
1. On the day before you wish to make your coffee soap, make your strong brewed coffee and keep it in the fridge over night. It needs to be very cold when you are making this soap
2. After straining and pouring out your brewed coffee, keep the coffee grounds and allow them to dry over night.
3. Next Day: Weigh out your brewed coffee, lye and oils on a digital scale. Remember when making soap all measurements are by weight not volume.
2. After straining and pouring out your brewed coffee, keep the coffee grounds and allow them to dry over night.
3. Next Day: Weigh out your brewed coffee, lye and oils on a digital scale. Remember when making soap all measurements are by weight not volume.
4. Mix the brewed coffee and lye together stirring until all the lye is dissolved. Remember to pour the lye into the coffee not the other way around!
5. When the coffee and lye mixture is cool, pour into your oils and mix gently with your long handled spoon. Ensure that you mix slowly and thoroughly.
6. Using the hand held blender mix until a light to medium trace is reached.
7. Add the fragrance at light to medium trace.
8. Mix until smooth but still pourable. See pics below.
9. Pour into the pre-prepared mould. For instructions on how to line your mould click on this here.
10. Pour your first layer of soap batter into the mould and spread evenly across. Sprinkle on a layer of coffee grounds.
11. Pour another layer of soap batter and then coffee grounds.
12. Pour he final layer of soap batter and smooth or decorate into peaks using a spatula. Sprinkle lightly with coffee grounds and leave for at least 24 hours.
13. Un-mould and cut.
5. When the coffee and lye mixture is cool, pour into your oils and mix gently with your long handled spoon. Ensure that you mix slowly and thoroughly.
6. Using the hand held blender mix until a light to medium trace is reached.
7. Add the fragrance at light to medium trace.
8. Mix until smooth but still pourable. See pics below.
9. Pour into the pre-prepared mould. For instructions on how to line your mould click on this here.
10. Pour your first layer of soap batter into the mould and spread evenly across. Sprinkle on a layer of coffee grounds.
11. Pour another layer of soap batter and then coffee grounds.
12. Pour he final layer of soap batter and smooth or decorate into peaks using a spatula. Sprinkle lightly with coffee grounds and leave for at least 24 hours.
13. Un-mould and cut.
In the above pictures you can see the lovely creamy texture of the coffee soap batter. The strong brewed coffee gives this a natural coffee fragrance, but it will not be as strong after the saponification process. If you want more fragrance then use a fragrance oil at about 3-5% of the oil weight.
