Kitchen Coffee Scrub Soap

Hi everyone! I have been taking a mini break from my blog since I have been overwhelmed with work and trying to get my garden/yard ready for the warmer weather. I finally had time this weekend to make some soap! I just ran out of my kitchen coffee scrub soap and decided to make a new batch. This soap is so great for when you are chopping onions and garlic and want to get their lingering scent off your hands. It is also useful for cleaning your hands after working outside or on your cars. One of my uncles keeps a bar to use to get all that car grease off his hands after a day of tinkering with his toys. This soap not only provides a scrub, it is also very moisturizing and has been made with some luxurious coffee butter.

Here is some eye candy for you! This first one is of me mixing the soap. It is at a nice thick trace and was poured into the mold just moments after this picture was taken.

Look at that nice thick trace!

 Here I am putting some texture onto the tops of the soap. I just love the ripples you get with a whisk.

Adding the finishing touches to the soap. Who doesn't love a textured top!

You can pick up a bar of this soap here.

Mochacchino Butter Sugar Scrub Tutorial

Need an extra boost to wake you up in the morning? This Mochacchino sugar scrub should do the trick. I like to scent mine with a mix of coffee, vanilla, and chocolate fragrance, but the butter already has a delicious scent so you could really just eliminate the added fragrance.

Ingredients:

2 oz Mochacchino butter

2 oz sweet almond oil

1 cup Demerara sugar

1/8 cup ground coffee

25-30 drops of fragrance or essential oil 

Procedure:

1. Weigh out the Mochacchino butter and melt in the microwave.

2. Weigh out the sweet almond oil and add it to the melted butter.

Melted butter and oil

3. Add the sugar and coffee grounds to the melted oils and stir.
4. Add fragrance to the mixture and stir.

Mixing up the sugar and oils

 5. Package it in a pretty container and then rush off to the shower for a nice scrub down!

Pretty and packaged

You may find that this needs more or less liquid oil depending on your taste. I would let the mixture cool to room temp and then modify it if needed.

Let me know if you try it and how it turns out!

New Soap Pictures!

Ok these are LONG overdue, but finally soap new pictures for you to drool over! Over the past year I changed the shape and design of many of my soaps. Finally some pictures to show you how they look. Enjoy!This one is my Ayurvedic Shampoo and Body bar. It has such a great later and an almost licorice scent (though it is scented with Basil and Lime essential oils).

This lovely is my Irish stout shampoo and body bar. It was made with Guinness which really helps to boost the lather.

This refreshing bar is Eucalyptus mint. It is a soothing and cooling soap. I love to use it on mornings that I just need a jump start to wake up.


This one is my Coffee Kitchen Scrub soap. It is chock full of coffee grounds which help to remove kitchen scents (think garlic and onion) from your hands. This is also a great soap to use after gardening or a mechanics soap.

This is our seasonal Apple Pie soap. Pick some up before they sell out! I LOVE this scent. The scent of apples and cinnamon just relax me.

Check back soon as I will be posting more eye candy!

Soaping with the family

I just showed my dad how to make soap. He was such a good helper, maybe we will have another soaper in the family soon. We made a yummie smelling coffee scrub soap. They are great to use in the kitchen to remove scents after cutting onion and garlic. To make the soap a bit luxurious, we added some coffee butter and shea butter. Can't wait to try it out! It looked like melted cookies and cream ice cream...yum.

More Soap Porn

Another teaser of soaps that will soon be listed on at my store. This first one is a chamomile soap. It is made with some chamomile infused oils, chamomile EO, and a bit of ground chamomile for texture. This soap is called chocolate espresso. I colored the bottom with cocoa powder and the top with titanium dioxide. I love this photo...part of my payment to Dylan for his photo skills was that delicious espresso I made for the picture. We got a nice espresso machine about a year ago and have since turned into coffee snobs.
On the theme of taste hot drinks...this soap is scented with green tea and cucumber. (Okay okay...I would probably never drink a cucumber tea, but it smells amazing with green tea!) The green swirls are made with my favorite colorant, french green clay. I also sprinkled the top with some clay, spirulina powder, and sparkles for a little pizazz.
This beautify soap looks a lot like the chocolate espresso, but it is lavender vanilla. The color is not quite what I was going for, but I think it looks nice anyways. I had been hoping for more of a lavender color instead of the brownish purple I got. Ah well...it smells great.

Productive Weekend!

After having spent all day Saturday at a renaissance fair that Dylan's kung-fu demo team performs in, I was feeling the need to make LOTS of soap. So, Sunday I made 5 batches of CP, rebatched some shampoo soap that was soft, and made a batch of cream soap. It was a lot of fun! For the cold process soap I made them all with a blend of shea butter, olive oil, castor oil, palm oil, and coconut oil. For scents I made a vanilla, lavender vanilla, black raspberry vanilla, lemon poppyseed, and chocolate espresso. They all smell marvelous. The cream soap contained coconut oil, cocoa butter, olive oil, jojoba oil, castor oil, stearic acid, palm oil, and glycerin. For additives I included hydrolyzed silk protein, hydrovance, panthenol, kaolin clay, and calendula petals. The calendula petals provide a light yellow color which should look very nice once the glistening sheen develops in the soap. I will post picture of all the new soap soon!

Vanilla Cafe Sugar Scrub

This is a scrub a made about a month ago and never posted about. I absolutely love this scrub...scent, texture, everything...except what it does to my tub. I don't think I have ever seen a tub get so gross from one scrub session. I think it is the mixture of oils sticking to the tub and then the fact that the coffee grounds are really dark and stick to the oil. Anyone have a suggestion...something to add to the scrub to prevent the oils from sticking to the tub? Maybe something like dryflo or natursorb?

Mocha Café Sugar Scrub

I am really loving sugar scrubs. I made this one with some ground coffee, vanilla FO, and vanilla frappuccino FO. I think it looks and smells really good. I modified my recipe again so that I got back the layer of oil when the sugar settles. I have decided that I prefer the extra oil in the end product. It helps to spread the sugar and I like to have some oil left on my body after I shower so that I do not have to use lotion. I will probably be listing a container of this product soon on my Etsy site. I just need to make some labels, but I think I need to get some waterproof labels first.