I couldn't resist any longer. I
had to make a soap that used coffee for the liquid.
Nothing too unusual to report, procedure-wise. I did lift my stick blender a bit to much at one point, and some raw soap splashed out of my container. It splashed away from me, but it could easily have splashed at me. It just really reminded me why the safety precautions are so highly stressed to us new soapers.
With that out of the way, here is the recipe I used today:
Total oil weight | 1.5 |
Water as percent of oil weight | 38 % |
Super Fat/Discount | 7 % |
Lye Concentration | 26.612 % |
Water : Lye Ratio | 2.758:1 |
|
Sat : Unsat Ratio | 43 : 57 |
Iodine | 56 |
INS | 151 |
Fragrance Ratio | 0 |
Fragrance Weight | 0 Oz |
|
Ingredient | Pounds | Ounces | Grams |
Water | 0.57 | 9.12 | 258.547 |
Lye - NaOH | 0.207 | 3.307 | 93.752 |
Soap Bar Quality |
Suggested Range |
Your Recipe |
Hardness |
29 - 54 |
42 |
Cleansing |
12 - 22 |
20 |
Conditioning |
44 - 69 |
55 |
Bubbly |
14 - 46 |
24 |
Creamy |
16 - 48 |
27 |
Iodine |
41 - 70 |
56 |
INS |
136 - 165 |
151 |
|
Lauric |
15 |
Myristic |
5 |
Palmitic |
18 |
Stearic |
4 |
Ricinoleic |
5 |
Oleic |
42 |
Linoleic |
8 |
Linolenic |
1 |
|
I am just copying and pasting my soapcalc view recipe page, because I am too lazy to type. I think I may do this more often, because it has a lot of extra info I usually leave out when posting.
I also used
Cappuccino Frgrance oil because even though coffee was my liquid, I have read the scent usually doesn't make it through. It behaved well, no acceleration, and because the soap is already dark, I wouldn't notice any discolouration if it does. Hopefully it'll hold well.
And since a soap post is incomplete without pictures, here you go :)
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