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| n |
My foliates........ have never been so ex'dI 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. 
As the sergeant on Hill Street Blues used to say... "Let's be careful out there". n |
| lottie |
Ooh that means that it will be excellent for my allotment hands then n?
I was saving it for when the lottie season finished. |
| lottie |
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 |
| Libby |
they sound super... how easy is it to make soap? Do I need lots of things??? Is it pretty idiot proof to do?
Libby |
| TheGirlsMum |
I'll let you know on that one Libby when I've tried it. If I can do it any idiot can (Not calling you an idiot you do realise), my paranoia (sp) creeping in.
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| Libby |
thats ok maybe we should be daft bats together
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| n |
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... n |
| lottie |
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 
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| Leonie2 |
There's a topic here http://thepottingshed.myfreeforum.org/sutra355.php#355 |
| lottie |
Sorry I forgot to post the link - 
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