beer soap

[Tinga]

well i made the soap last night.

i added an ounce to the lye water mixture so that the pellets could become the usual sludge and be distributed throughout the whole soap. i think it slowed the process up quite a bit because i was using my electric mixer for about an hour and i didnt get it as far as i would have liked.

the color is olive green as to be suspected fragrance is as great as i would have liked but still not terrible. i used a basic soap recipe of 80% olive oil and 20% coconut oil as it was pretty much all i had. however much lye and water it takes according to a lye calculator. i think 2.7 oz of lye and 6.6 oz of water. then one ounce of cascade hops.

if i were to do it again i would add a half oz of hops to the lye water mix and then an oz and a half powdered hops at trace. so more hops and grind them up before i add them.

im interested to see if the isomerized alpha acids help or if i should just add all the hops at trace.

 

[cklages]

It is interesting to hear that the hops slowed down the trace, I would be a little worried about adding them right at trace, as I have seen a soap that started to trace re-liquify when a fragrance was added. That one never ended up quite right, and I ended up with DOS (the Dreaded Orange Spots for those who aren't soap makers). I think that I might contemplate "re-batching" in order to incorporate hops, I have had reasonably good luck when using milk to mill soap.

I really look forward to hearing how that soap turns out, good for you for giving it a try.

 

[CDbrews]

Midwest supplies was selling hop soap last time I was in there around the holidays, looked interesting I might have to try this

 

[Tinga]

Midwest supplies was selling hop soap last time I was in there around the holidays, looked interesting I might have to try this

yeah i was there last weekend. pretty much where i got the idea.

 

[rmolledo]

I saw some beer soap on Terrapins, DogFish Head, and Stones webpages