Chocolate soap

[misskat22]

I was playing around with a no coconut recipe and decided to use cocoa butter instead, so when I made it I added some cocoa powder, soap turned out ok..maybe I'll like it better after it cures, I wasn't expecting too much of a chocolate scent which is good, because I didn't get any. It's kinda neat looking though.

 

[melstan775]

It is neat looking! I'm surprised it didn't get darker. Maybe it will oxidize in time.

 

[misskat22]

I only put 2 tsp of cocoa powder in a 1 lb batch, I didn't want it too dark as I've heard you'll get brown lather and I wouldn't want people to worry about it staining. (you know some people aren't too bright!)

 

[newbie]

Is it a reddish color? It's a great color but not what I expected when you said cocoa powder. I like the crinkle cut.

 

[WallFlower]

Very pretty! I love the color!

 

[misskat22]

It's not really red, kind of like a medium brown and a dark brown with beige around the outside. My camera kind of distorted the colour a bit. It's definitely a strange colour. Any ideas why the outside would be lighter than the inside? It was uniform when I put the towel over it..all my soaps have gelled so far, could it just be that this one gelled unevenly?

 

[danahuff]

Chocolate does funny things. It will probably get darker. It seems to morph in color a lot, and I learned it also bleeds, so it isn't the best choice for swirls or stripes.

 

[Ancel]

It looks great, a lot like the Turkish Delight candy you can get in the UK. I like the lighter edge, seen that in a number of soaps on smf, never worked out how to do it. Looks great, I wonder how much darker it'll get with only 2 tsps of cacao. Love to see a photo of it in a couple of weeks

 

[Badger]

Very cool It looks nice and it would be interesting to see what it looks like in a few days

 

[christinak]

It looks like Red Velvet soap Super cool!

 

[theath2010]

That's great looking I have never used cocoa but it looks good to me!