Homemade Brownie Soap Recipe
by
Rebecca D. Dillon
(IC: blogger)
12 Materials
1-2 Hour
Medium
This homemade brownie soap recipe is made with fresh strong brewed coffee, unsweetened cocoa powder and an entire egg for a luxurious feeling soap with a rich, thick lather. Makes a great housewarming gift!
Egg in soap? Really?! Yes, absolutely! Eggs are believed to offer many skin care benefits including tightening skin, shrinking pores, and calming redness and breakouts. When you use egg in cold process soap, the egg yolks are treated as a fat. This gives the soap a rich, thick lather. Egg whites, on the other hand, don't contain fat. However, they do contain protein which has an astringent effect on skin.
To make this soap, you should be familiar with the cold process soapmaking method. If you aren't, you can find my basic cold process soapmaking instructions at Soap Deli News blog here.
Weigh out the lye and slowly pour into the coffee in a well ventilated area. Stir until the lye has completely dissolved, then set the coffee/lye mixture aside to cool.
Now weigh out the soapmaking oils for this recipe using a digital scale. For my brownie soap recipe I used a combination of babassu oil, castor oil, unrefined cocoa butter, refined coconut oil, olive oil and safflower oil. Heat the oils until they melt then set them aside to cool as well.
Using measuring spoons, measure out the unsweetened cocoa powder for your soap. I recommend using a stick blender to incorporate the cocoa powder into the oils.
Now pour the lye/coffee into the soapmaking oils. Mix the soap with a stick blender until you reach trace.
If desired, you can add whole coffee beans to the top of each of your soaps as an accent.
Because it’s winter and much colder in my house right now, I got soda ash on the tops of my soaps. However, I loved the contrast between the color of the soda ash and the color of the soap and the coffee beans so I left it on my soaps. If you don’t like the way it looks, you can simply steam or wash it off. Or add piped soap to the tops!
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Suggested materials:
- Babassu oil
- Castor oil
- Unrefined cocoa butter
- Refined coconut oil
- Olive oil
- Safflower oil
- Brewed coffee
- Lye/sodium hydroxide
- Egg
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Sodium lactate
- Fragrance oil, optional
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
Published January 27th, 2017 8:47 PM
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Fra17896637 on Feb 05, 2017Wow you've really inspired me. Thanks xx
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Rebecca D. Dillon on Feb 05, 2017I'm so glad! You're welcome!
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Barbara Young on Oct 15, 2020
I will try making this soap thank you
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