Coffee Ground Soap

Microwave for 40 seconds stir then repeat in 10 20 second intervals until soap in fully melted.

Coffee ground soap. 1 lb shea butter melt and pour soap base. Add more coffee grounds if you d like the soap to be more exfoliating. Place in microwave safe bowl along with coffee grounds. This oil is both warming and invigorating and smells exactly like a freshly brewed cup of coffee.

Using coffee instead of water does not give soap a coffee smell. The melt and pour soap base i used has a slight smell so i wanted to enhance this coffee aroma with coffee essential oil. Once melted add 1 tablespoon of brewed coffee grounds for every one cup of soap. Keep stirring until the soap is around 125 130 f.

For melt and pour soap add the used coffee grounds to melted soap and stir well. The yogurt flavor isn t particularly important but plain or vanilla works especially nice with the natural coffee scent. They mix well in the soap and tend to settle to the top making one side of the soap better for exfoliating. It needs to be thick enough to suspend the coffee grounds evenly.

While the soap is melting lightly grease four rounds of a muffin tin and place a small spoonful of coffee grounds at the base of each. This is because the lye scorches the coffee resulting in a noticeable odor. 3 tablespoons pure vanilla extract. Mix 1 4 teaspoon spent coffee grounds finely ground with 1 tablespoon of another breakfast staple yogurt.

How to make vanilla coffee soap. Cut soap into smaller pieces. Then pour into your mold. Reusing your brewed coffee grounds is more eco friendly but it s also important to note that fresh coffee grounds will bleed into the soap.

Coffee is known to absorb food odors like garlic and fish which makes coffee soap a great product for home cooks looking to neutralize food odors on their hands. Cup used coffee grounds. If you re using plain brewed coffee don t worry about the soap overheatin because it doesn t have sugar. Once the soap has become liquid turn off the heat add the.

In cold process soap add the grounds at trace and whisk gently to combine. In fact when you mix lye with coffee it does not smell very pleasant. Remove and stir until soap begins to slightly slightly thicken add fragrance if you wish at this point and stir in. The espresso melt and pour soap bars are made with rich espresso fragrance oil.

Gently massage over your face and neck and let sit five minutes. The coffee grounds not only help the soap smell like coffee but they also work to exfoliate hands and scrub away odors. An additional benefit of making your own coffee soap is that it uses extra strength coffee and inexpensive coffee grounds both for its scent and as a natural exfoliant.