Thanks all for the tips! I'll take these to heart.
One more question: I've seen reference to keeping the coffee cold. Does this have to be the case? Or can it just be room temperature?
...and pour the lye into the coffee when it's time?
I'm going for something like this recipe here:
http://soapdelinews.com/2015/06/homemade-coffee-soap-recipe.html
It says, however, to add lye to water separately, and add coffee to the oils separately. It all sounds complicated. Is all of...
How does the color turn out that way? I'm aiming for this:
http://soapdelinews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/natural-food-soap-recipe-500x319.jpg
(The one on the left)
So I want to try this recipe:
http://soapdelinews.com/2015/06/homemade-coffee-soap-recipe.html
As you can see, it calls for
But I want to use a different fat profile (I've have success with equal parts coconut, olive, and palm), which throws all of the calculations askew.
My question is...
Oh. I wanted it to actually be in the soap, that's what the question is about.
So does anyone here have experience with that? Putting comfrey leaves in their actual lye soap?
Oh, darn. Didn't know that would be an issue. Is there any other issue than the leaves changing color? I can handle brown leaves, it kind of fits with the theme. But if they become useless, that might be an issue.
Anyone else here have experience with comrey leaves as well?
So I'm thinking about making a "Hobbit-themed" soap (with hemp oil, tobacco scent, and comfrey leaf - you know, the Halflings' pipe-weed).
I'm looking at using comfrey leaf for texture:
https://www.brambleberry.com/Comfrey-Leaf-P6443.aspx
My only thing is, don't these leaves get...
So is the freezer paper there to lift the soap out of the mold or is it there to prevent the soap from touching the steel?
Is rusting the main problem? Or does steel react poorly with soap period?
It would be regular steel.
...or will it react poorly with the newly-poured lye soap?
I ask because I might have the perfect soap mold solution staring me in the face, I'm just not sure how well steel would work.
I recently did a multi-colored soap which is looking great.
But there was one problem.
During the soapmaking process, I kept the fragrance oil in a red plastic cup so it was pre-measured. The fragrance oil turned red. Not sure if it had been red the whole time (someone else poured it), I...
In my latest batch, I used a soap mold (minimal soda ash) and an improvised soap mold (a square cardboard box lined with freezer paper) which resulted in thin bars. The real soap mold bars are mostly good with minimal soda ash, but there's a lot on the thin bars. I looked it up and saw that...