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n · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: My foliates....

.... have never been so ex'd

I have used the coffee soap I sent fot the swap as a handsoap, and it was great for getting muck off because it's so gritty. This morning I used it in the shower.... I am just warning anyone who hasn't used it yet to be gentle with it. Very Happy

As the sergeant on Hill Street Blues used to say... "Let's be careful out there".

n
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lottie · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

Ooh that means that it will be excellent for my allotment hands then n?

I was saving it for when the lottie season finished.
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lottie · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:

I decided to use your soap for a shower - the coffee one - and it was lovely. I didn't need to use the shower scrunchy - just the bare soap.

Did you put the exact amount of coffee grounds in it as per the recipe or did you experiment.

I would like to make some for Christmas pressies so just wondered.

I don't drink coffee but love the smell of it - and when I stepped into the shower cubicle this morning, it smelt of coffee - a lovely wake up shower.

I can really recommend n's soap - from MC's book?

I am rationing all the soap swap soaps, and not using a new one until the other has finished - savouring every last bubble
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Libby · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

they sound super... how easy is it to make soap? Do I need lots of things??? Is it pretty idiot proof to do?

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TheGirlsMum · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

I'll let you know on that one Libby when I've tried it. If I can do it any idiot can Very Happy

(Not calling you an idiot you do realise), my paranoia (sp) creeping in.

Libby · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

thats ok maybe we should be daft bats together Very Happy

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n · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

Lottie it's just what the recipe says in the Melinda Coss book. When I made it though I remember thinking that it was an ENORMOUS quantitiy of coffee grounds, and it did take an absolute age to trace. I ended up whisking it in the end!
But it is a really exfoliating soap, I have made soap with pinhead oatmeal before, expecting it to be roughish, but the oats aren't a patch on the coffee which is really quite scratchy. Good, but a bit of a surprise!

I forsee a new "generation" of soap-making addicts here...
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lottie · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject:

That is why I bumped this topic - it had been sleeping for too long.

I found soapmaking easy to do - but a bit scary the first time - just because of all the warnings in the book.

It is just common sense really - and once you have made one batch you just want to go ahead and make some more.

Go for it!

And thanks for your reply n - I might make mine with less coffee - for sensitive skins Laughing

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