Home made Coffee soap making treats
Probably you encountered soap making once in your life in your Chemistry undergraduate subject. The process is purely of Chemistry origin. In a simple laboratory experiment, the crude soap is composed of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids that is made by reacting vegetable oils and/or animal fats with a strong basic solution (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, or generally called lye), and the whole process is called saponification. The reaction is a base hydrolysis of the fats and oils forming the anionic surfactant soap and glycerol.
Soap ideas are now creating different approach to the process of soap making. Two general process involves in soap making are the hot process and cold process. Cold process is the widely used one especially at home. It uses the saponification value of the fats and/or oils to be used so that the amount of lye is analytically prepared to be right in the process. Excess lye can cause skin burns or irritation and lower lye value can cause greasiness in the soap.
As stated in the above scientific approach, soap making is becoming popular at household because it is easy and fun. To start your coffee soap making, purchase the following: 227 grams soy bean oil, 113 grams of coconut oil, 113 grams of olive oil, 57 grams lye (sodium hydroxide is extremely danger so take cautions, wear protective gloves and goggles), and the substitute for water, 142 grams of coffee.
If you completed the required items, follow these easy steps to make that coffee soaps.
• Weigh the desired mass of the coffee and lye in different pitchers.
• Pour the lye into the coffee, try to prevent them from splashing.
• Gently stir the mixed solution using a wooden spoon, then cool to approximately 100° – 110°F.
• Heat the oils. Cool to 100° to 110°F
• When the temperature of both lye solution and melted/heated oils is nearly identical (less than 10°F in difference is alright), you can now combined them by pouring the lye solution into the melted/heated oils in a thin stream with constant stirring.
• Keep that constant stirring. The mixture will eventually thicken and trailing will be obvious. Do this for less than an hour. Apply essential or fragrance oils and coffee at light trace if it’s suits you.
• Pour the liquid crude soap into a plastic mold, cover and wrap with towel.
• Set aside in a warm room for 2 days.
• After setting aside, remove it from the plastic mold and there you have it, your coffee soap block. Use knife to cut the block into bars.
Soap making really consumes large amount of time. However, it’s worthy to try this to create that coffee soap for home use of hand cleansers.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about how to make organic soap}, and make your own soap. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
