Now, I have made this basic recipe without the coffee grounds and it turned out well and so I have no reason to believe that it won’t do so this time as well.. I will keep you updated and post photos of the soap. remember your safety working around lye.. gloves, glasses and be careful!

Garden Coffee Scrubby Soap by Farmgal

• 16 oz of lard
• 6 oz of safflower oil
• 6 oz of sunflower oil
• 4 oz of Sweet Almond oil
• 10 oz of coffee
• 3/4th cup of freshly ground coffee grounds (started from joels amazing coffee beans)
• 4.2 oz of lye

Follow all the regular rules of making CP soap, make sure your oils are within 10 degree’s of each other, and I am using a blender stick method, all gear is for soaping only, nothing that is reused for food etc.

This soap will take a min of six weeks to fully cure, but it should be hard enough to cut at the 24 hour marke, it should make a fairly hard bar but of course the longer it cures the harder it wil be and the longer it will last.

Costs break down to 3.97 for a 2 pd loaf of soap, which gives you 8 4 oz bars of soap at 49 cents per bar, I don’t know about you but I have seen coffee garden soap go for as much as  4 to 5 dollars per bar of soap. This is certianly more reasonable in price provided you can use the rest of the oils/lye for other soap making thoughtout the year etc.

This should come out as a light/med brown soap with black speckles, it should be good for garden hands, but also in the kitchen for removing fish or onion/galic smels.