I made soap with the CP process only once before and it has been beginner's luck a success . OK, first time I used a recipe I found on a book and I made only a few minor changes (like using water instead of beer, and bamboo powder instead of kaolin clay). For my second time, I wanted to use the leftover oils/butter I had at home...I created the recipe myself, but I passed it through a lye calculator (twice), as textbooks require! Here you have my recipe (I'm not violating any copyright, I'd say :-) ) I wanted to add a personal touch to this recipe and I decided to use coffee to color and scent the soap bar. I prepared a medium Moka machine and kept aside the used coffee grounds. After having mixed the oils and the lye solution, I've hand-whisked the emulsion, split it in two and added coffee (3 espresso shots) to one part and coffee grounds to the other. I've poured the emulsion after reaching a very light trace and that's the res...
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