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New Batch - KITCHEN SOAP - Made with Real Coffee - Great for Removing Odors from Your Hands

New Batch - KITCHEN SOAP - Made with Real Coffee - Great for Removing Odors from Your Hands

Description

A little scrubby and a lot of aroma : )

If you just love the smell of coffee in the air, this ought to be a useful little bar of soap you'll really love to sniff! Finely ground dark roast coffee contributes to the color and the scrubby. Real coffee, by the way - ground the beans myself! Each bar weighs approx. 3.5 oz.

It has been over a year since I first started making this soap. It is still a personal favorite of mine (there's always one next to my kitchen sink). It's also a shop favorite that makes a great gift idea for the cook in your life that just might also happen to be a coffee lover as well!

This is what happened with my very first batch: I'd never used a coffee soap in the kitchen before and I'd heard it could work wonders removing onion and garlic odors from your hands. My oldest son HATES onions. The smell is especially offensive to him. Sooooo, I knew he'd be my best candidate for a sniff test : ) I didn't tell him *why* I wanted him to sniff my hand. I just ask him if he would give it a little sniff and tell me what he thought. If I had told him I had rubbed a sliced onion all over my hands he would have never helped me, so, best not to tell! He sniffed a couple of times and said "it's kinda spicy like cinnamon and coffee". I smiled. I then told him I had rubbed my hands with onions and used my coffee soap to wash it off. He then grabbed my hand and sniffed again, this time trying to catch a whiff of the onion, trying to prove me wrong I'm sure : ) Nothing. The onion hater didn't smell a thing! So, as far as I'm concerned it works pretty good. Since onion is actually an OK smell to me I wasn't sure if I'd be the best judge on the effectiveness of the coffee soap!
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The development of *blended soaps* was a joint effort between myself and a soaper friend. A full writeup on how it came to be can be found on my blog should you care to check it out : )
http://soapalayasoapsuds.blogspot.com/2008/06/never-say-nevera-soap-snob-compromises.html

What I love about this soap:
1 - Thick, creamy lather that is absolutely luscious.
2 - The bar itself has a silky pamperific glide
3 - The scents are crisp and true
4 - The texture is soft against your skin and it leaves you feeling very well cared for : )

One of the base components of this bar is my *Bar Naked* soap which is an enriched soap full of pampering oils. It comes unscented and is the perfect choice to use in this formulation. Bar Naked contains avocado, olive, castor grapeseed, rice bran, sunflower and wheat germ oils as well as shea butter and palm and coconut oils. I used 65% Bar Naked for this formulation and blended it with a higher quality commercially prepared soap base containing additional shea butter, coconut, palm, and, castor oils as well as sorbitol, sorbitan oleate, safflower oil, and, Kosher vegetable glycerin.

By using the process of blending the two soaps together I get the benefits of having the better properties of both all in one bar. My blog about this is a little lengthy but is a good explanation if you are wondering *why* I'd even bother! The end result is quite nice and is a lovely product I am very pleased to offer to my customers!

Added on Nov 06, 2009