Coffee and cocoa powder soap

This is my coffee and cocoa powder soap.

I used natural colorants, for the Brambleberry cold process challenge.
Colorants I used: Coffee infused Olive Oil and Cocoa Powder.
I have put coffee grounds into olive oil, warmed the oil-coffee mixture over the lowest heat for 10 minutes and left it for two days. I filtered the coffee grounds using a small mesh strainer.

New Soap: Coffee and cocoa powder soap goo.gl/fb/l91yS
— FluffySoap (@FluffySoap) October 3, 2012

Salt Soap - Sea Salt in CP Soap

Yesterday I made sea salt CP soap.

These are the oils I used: 80% coconut oil, 10% olive oil and 10% corn oil, with 20% superfat. I used SoapCalc Lye Calculator.
After light trace I added my essential oils: mint, rosemary and orange, and blue oxide for the blue swirl.
Then I added fine grain sea salt and used 1:1 ratio of sea salt to oils.
I poured my salt soap into various silicone molds and sprinkled it with some coarse sea salt.
I tried it the next day and it had a creamy lather.

Here are some salt CP soap recipes from lovely soapers around the world:

Salt Soap Tutorial by Ladybug Soapworks
Pretty in Pink: Salty Cold Process from SoapQueen
Salt Soaps from Adventures With The Sage
Salt Bars from LovinSoap

New Soap: Salt Soap - Sea Salt in CP Soap goo.gl/fb/Nj2eR
— FluffySoap (@FluffySoap) June 14, 2012

Oatmeal milk and Honey CP Soap

This is my first Oatmeal milk and Honey CP Soap.

I used SoapCalc Lye Calculator to determine the exact amount of lye and water for my oils. I used palm, coconut and olive oil. Instead of a part of water I used cooled oatmeal milk that I made myself. The lye-water-oatmealmilk mixture got very thick.
At trace I added a teaspoon of ground oatmeal and two teaspoons of honey per pound of soap. Grounded oatmeal and honey give this soap it's natural color and natural scent.
At the end I sprinkled some whole oats on top of my soap.

New Soap: Oatmeal milk and Honey CP Soap goo.gl/fb/K8Sb3
— FluffySoap (@FluffySoap) March 2, 2012

How I made my Beer Soap

I recently made two batches of Beer CP Soap.

I used SoapCalc Lye Calculator to determine the exact amount of lye and water for my oils. For the first batch I used coconut, olive and palm oil, and for the second batch I used palm, coconut, corn and olive oil.
I used two brands of beer, so one is a little darker than the other.
They both smell like candy. One is scented with anise essential oil, and the other with lemon and orange essential oils.

I mixed beer with lye, and poured it in the oils, and then stirred the lye-beer-oil mixture with the stick blender, in short bursts.

After reaching trace, I poured the soap in my handmade wooden mold.

The whiter part is colored with white oxide.

 

Rubber Duckies

I bought some rubber duckies in preparation for a new soap.

I am not sure if I'll do this:


Or this:



In the meantime:

Color Swirls and the Cocoa Powder Experiment

I came to love the Basic Four-Oil Soap I from the Soap Maker's Workshop.
It's a soap made with coconut oil, olive oil, canola oil and palm oil.
I added blue, red and green oxide, and activated charcoal for color.
The soap is scented with three essential oils: peppermint, eucalyptus and lavandine.
I love the colored swirls.

For this soap I used a handmade wooden mold, that a friend made for me.

And then there is the Cocoa Powder Experiment. I added cocoa powder to my soap, at light trace, and made the swirl: