Coffee Kitchen Bar
High-coconut, high-cleansing bar with coffee grounds for exfoliation. Strips garlic and onion smell from hands.
A bar made specifically for the kitchen. The high coconut percentage (60%) gives huge lather and oil-cutting power, and ground coffee acts as a gentle abrasive that absorbs strong smells like garlic, fish, and onions. Don't use this on your face — it's too cleansing.
Ingredients (1 kg batch)
| Ingredient | Amount |
|---|---|
Coconut oil 76° Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil | 600.0 g (60%) |
Olive oil Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil | 250.0 g (25%) |
Castor oil Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil | 50.0 g (5%) |
Shea butter Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter | 100.0 g (10%) |
NaOH (lye) | 154.9 g (99% purity) |
Distilled water | 330.0 g |
Coffee grounds | 20.0 g (2% of oils) |
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Expected qualities
Step-by-step
- Brew strong coffee, freeze it, and use the cubes to dissolve the lye for extra coffee-scented impact (optional).
- Standard procedure: weigh oils, melt, cool to 38–43°C.
- Mix lye-water, cool to similar temp.
- Combine, stick-blend to light trace.
- Add coffee grounds (used or fresh, depending on how dark you want), stir in.
- Pour into mould, unmould after 24 hours, cure 4 weeks.
Notes & troubleshooting
- Use FINE-grind grounds — coarse coffee feels like sandpaper.
- Used grounds (after brewing) work fine and are eco-friendly.
- Coffee can darken a soap to deep tan over the cure — leave room for colour shift.
Calculator-flagged recipe notes
- Coconut oil over 30% can be drying. Consider raising superfat to 20% if you go higher (salt bars often use 20%).
- Cleansing score 40 is above the 22 range — bar may be drying.
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