Free Coffee Soap Recipe
This recipe uses cup measurements instead of weights. In my experience, everyone has a measuring cup but not too many people have baby scales laying around the kitchen!
Make the strongest pot of coffee you ever made. Really make it dark dark dark.
The coffee will be used in place of the water in this soap recipe.
1/2 cup Lye
1 1/2 cup water(cold coffee)
4 cups of oil consisting of 2 cups olive oil and 2 cups coconut and palm oils. If you don't have those on hand, just use crisco or any hydrogenated(solid)
cooking oil.
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Pour the coffee into a quart mason jar and add the lye carefully. Do not splash.
It will heat up fiercely and you will need to hold a towel over your mouth.
Stir it briskly with a wooden spoon just long enough to feel the grains
have dissolved. Then get out of the kitchen for 30 minutes.
Melt all the oils together in a big glass bowl
that will fit in your microwave. Just melt them until they are very hot.
If you have a glass candy thermometer check to see that the
temperatures of the coffee/lye mixture and the oils are around 100 degrees F.
If you don't have a thermometer, then put your hands on the
sides of the bowl and the mason jar and see if they feel
lukewarm to the touch. When they both feel lukewarm to the touch,
carefully pour the oil into a large glass or plastic mixing bowl.
Then carefully pour the lye/coffee mixture into the oils
and begin to stir immediately and do not stop for 30 minutes.
You must use a wooden spoon to stir the soap.
It will immediately take on the texture of thick gravy
and the smell will be heavenly. It will seem
somewhat grainy as it continues to thicken. Just keep stirring.
After 30-45 minutes of mixing, you are ready to pour into your molds. Whatever you have chosen for a mold, be sure it is not ALUMINUM or CAST IRON or anything but plastic, glass or wood.
You can use a cardboard box, a cigar box, a glass pyrex casserole dish. You can use jello molds if you have them in plastic.
Pour the liquid soap into the mold(s) and cover with a cloth and do not disturb for 24 hours. No peeking! After that time if the soap seems solid like hard butter you can tip it out of the mold. If it is still too soft just leave it alone for two weeks. In two weeks you can use your coffee soap!
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