I want to make a chocolate and coffee soap, with cocoa in it and cocoa butter and other oils. but the recipes i have been finding have ACTUAL squares of chocolate in them. Something about this is kinda gross to me. yes, i know chocolate is cocoa butter + cocoa + sugar + milk. I guess its the sugar and milk that I'm leery of having in my soap.
If anyone knows of a recipe that would suit picky ole me, i'd love to know it. I was thinking also, maybe i could just plunge ahead and try a recipe that had cocoa butter in it and just dump in some cocoa in at trace? I'm thinking I'll put coffe with the lye water.
I'm not crazy about adding artificial fragrance oils to my soaps- at least just yet cos I'm a beginner and I've heard they can cause seizure and be tricky to work with- do you think just adding cocoa and the coffe as i have described will give much of an aroma? Or is it just gonna make the soap brown and not much else?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help.
If anyone knows of a recipe that would suit picky ole me, i'd love to know it. I was thinking also, maybe i could just plunge ahead and try a recipe that had cocoa butter in it and just dump in some cocoa in at trace? I'm thinking I'll put coffe with the lye water.
I'm not crazy about adding artificial fragrance oils to my soaps- at least just yet cos I'm a beginner and I've heard they can cause seizure and be tricky to work with- do you think just adding cocoa and the coffe as i have described will give much of an aroma? Or is it just gonna make the soap brown and not much else?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help.