Coffee Soap, with a little ground coffee. Scented with a mix of coffee FO and biscotti FO.

Posted Feb 12, 2017, 11:37 PM UTC

Posted Feb 12, 2017, 11:37 PM UTC
I want to eat that!
It smells edible. I was worried my coffee FO would be too bitter (it was incredibly bitter OOB), but mixed with a little biscotti, which is a vanilla caramel smell, it's amazing.
Beautiful!
Thanks!
Love the swirls!!! Any techniques that were used?
It was a three jug ITP swirl. One section had ground coffee, one section had titanium dioxide, and then the rest was left plain.
Standard In-The-Pot swirl. I was hoping for a tri-colour swirl with the part with the ground coffee going darker again, but the FO seems to have darkened up enough to only give me the contrasting TD swirl section. I didn't want to add too much coffee (even though I love the speckles) because it's super scratchy for a body soap. Lovely as a hand scrub though.
Sorry everyone. I'm new to soap making. What does "FO" mean?
Sorry! It's Fragrance Oil. And please feel free to ask about any other acronyms we use regularly. It's pretty much like learning a whole new language.
I made some this weekend too! I used fine-ground grounds, Coffee Mocha FO, and cocoa powder to color it a chocolate brown. It smells amazing! Mine doesn't have the pretty creamer-like swirls though.
I used titanium dioxide in a portion of the batter to get the lighter swirls. I'm glad they held their colour as well as they did tbh. The rest of the brown is just from the vanilla in the FO.