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How to Make Organic Coffee Soap
This easy, quick soap recipe with antioxidant-rich shea butter and coffee provides skin rejuvenation that leaves it more vibrant than before. Incorporating both brewed coffee for color as well as spent grounds that provide gentle yet effective skin-soothing exfoliation makes for a wonderful first attempt at natural homemade soap making! Easily melt and pour this recipe for optimal results.
This organic coffee soap is created using shea butter, coconut oil and olive oil which are known for cleansing, moisturizing and antimicrobial benefits. Additionally, this recipe uses superfatting for extra softness, rich lather production and stable bar formation. Brewed coffee grounds add natural fragrance as well as light brown color – perfect for gift giving! This quick soap project makes a wonderful quick present.
For this melt and pour soap recipe, start by cleaning and drying a square silicone mold before spraying with rubbing alcohol. Measure and chop shea butter soap base into cubes, measure and weigh oils and butters separately and melt them together gradually on medium-low heat until reaching medium trace stage; stir in spent coffee grounds (if applicable), vanilla extract (if using), essential oil or any other desired additions until well mixed; pour quickly into prepared mold before it sets hard!
This simple, easy-to-make soap features shea butter and brewed coffee as a source of color and exfoliation, while kaolin clay provides excellent lather. Furthermore, its naturally fragrant formulation features both vanilla and coffee essential oils – providing a fantastic, natural product suitable for body or facial use!
Handmade soap containing coffee provides many skin care benefits, from increasing blood flow for healthier, more vibrant complexion to exfoliation to remove dead skin cells naturally. Coffee’s caffeine may even help diminish cellulite and stretch marks; plus it makes an ideal addition to natural hand cream for fresh scent and smoother skin!
To make this easy and quick cold-process soap recipe, mix together sodium hydroxide solution and cooled coffee water separately before slowly adding lye to the soap base, stirring continually. When reaching thick trace stage, stir in instant coffee grounds. Pour your soap into a mold. This recipe is ideal for beginners because its pre-made soap base has already undergone the saponification process making working with active lye much less challenging than working directly.