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Ingredients

• Servings: 4-5 bars
• Preparation Time: about 2 hours
• 450g (16oz) Olive Oil (cold pressed)
• 90g (3oz) distilled water
• 60g (2.1oz) buttermilk
• 70g (2.5oz) lye (sodium hydroxide)*
• 2 tsp freshly ground coffee
• 2-3 tsp (to taste) sweet orange essential oil**
• * Until not too long ago, you could purchase Red Devil Lye in your local supermarket, which was 100% sodium hydroxide. Lye is not quite as easy to come by these days, but there are still online vendors where you can purchase it (note that because it is getting shipped you will have to pay an additional HAZMAT fee). Some of my favorite vendors are Snowdrift Farm and Camden-Gray, but just do a quick search online and you should be able to find plenty of places to purchase lye. Just make sure you are getting a product that is 100% sodium hydroxide with no added ingredients.
• ** You can substitute essential oil (the real stuff) for fragrance oil (artificial stuff). Fragrance oil is cheaper and tends to smell stronger. However essential oils, which are extracted from the actual plant, have medicinal, aromatherapeutic, and cosmetic benefits that perfume (fragrance oil) cannot offer.
• Equipment:
• Good quality scale preferably one that measures in grams
• Stainless steel pot
• Plastic container (for water)
• Stainless steel or plastic container (for cocoa butter)
• Plastic mixing bowl
• Silicone or heavy duty rubber mixing utensil.
• Blender (optional)
• Meat thermometer
• Protective gloves
• Trays or molds
• WARNING: Lye (sodium hydroxide) is some nasty caustic stuff. Do not let it come in contact with aluminum, Formica, tin, iron and never never let it touch the skin! Use gloves and even goggles if you have them, cover your counter with newspaper or towels, and use only stainless steel, plastic, or silicone materials. Always keep a bottle of vinegar nearby in case your skin comes into contact with the lye. Wood spoons can be used, although the lye will slowly corrode them and you may eventually start finding tiny wood slivers in your soap.

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