If you know anything about me, you know that I LOVE coffee soap! This coffee combines two of my favorite things…coffee + cocoa!

coffee cocoa soap

SAFETY WARNING! If you’ve never made soap before, be sure to start with our basic soap making guide. This recipe and instructions are for experienced soap makers. Be sure to gear up in your goggles and gloves before you make soap.

This recipe fits in a Bramble Berry 10″ silicone loaf mold. I halved it when I made it to fit into a smaller test mold from Bramble Berry.

Layered Coffee & Cocoa Cold Process Soap Recipe

  • Coconut Oil – 306 grams (34%)
  • Cocoa Butter – 90 grams (10%)
  • Olive Oil – 360 grams (40%)
  • Sweet Almond Oil – 54 grams (6%)
  • Avocado Oil – 90 grams (10%)
  • Sodium Hydroxide – 129 grams
  • Distilled Water – 258 grams
  • Coffee Grounds (Grind fine) – 2 teaspoons
  • Zinc Oxide – 4 teaspoons
  • Cocoa Powder – 4 teaspoons
  • Rosemary Essential Oil – 10 grams
  • Peppermint Essential Oil – 20 grams

Or you can use your favorite coffee fragrance oil!

Step 1: Make your lye solution. Weigh the water and lye into separate containers. Pour the lye into the water while stirring. Be sure to mix your lye solution in a well-ventilated area.

Step 2: Weigh out your solid/hard oils and melt.

Step 3: Weigh out your liquid oils and add to your melted oils. Add the essential oil blend and the coffee grounds to the base oils.

Step 4: Pour the lye solution into your oils and mix to light trace trace.

 

Step 5: Divide your batter out into three equal parts.

Step 6: Add 4 teaspoons of zinc oxide to one base. Add 4 teaspoons of cocoa powder to another. Leave one base uncolored; it will have the natural color of the coffee grounds.

Step 7: Bring the base colored using zinc oxide to thick trace. Pour it into your mold and bang your mold down to flatten.

Step 8: Bring your uncolored (natural) base to a thicker trace and spoon on top of the zinc oxide layer. Bang your mold down to flatten.

 

Step 9: Bring your cocoa colored base to a thicker trace and spoon on top of the natural layer. Bang your mold down to flatten.

You can decorate the top as you wish. I spooned a little of each base on top and swirled it together, topping with coffee beans for decoration.

 

Let your soap sit for 24 hours, unmold and cut your soap!

Cure your soap for 4 weeks!

Happy Soaping!

-Amanda Gail

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Now through March 1st, we are having a presale on our newest eClass, Clear Transparent Soap from Scratch!

In this video eCourse, I will show you:

  • How to formulate your own transparent soap recipe that is remelt-able and reusable…similar to MP soap base.
  • We’ll go over base oils and solvents that are available to use and why you would select each type of ingredient.
  • How to make quick hot process transparent soap from scratch. It only takes about 20 minutes once you get the process down!
  • How to remelt and use your base for future projects.

About the soap:

  • The ingredients we use include coconut oil, stearic acid, castor oil, sodium hydroxide, everclear (grain alcohol) and sugar.
  • The soap is remeltable and you can work with it like melt and pour soap base.
  • You can create bars of soap or embeds that you can add to regular cold process soap.
  • You’ll get different varieties of clarity in your soap…we’ll talk about that.

The class will be delivered in a a series of videos and downloadable PDF’s. You’ll have forever access and be able to watch over and over again as you want.

Happy Soaping! -Amanda Aaron