Espresso Bar

Espresso bar. Get it? Still in pursuit of the moisturizing bar. Same recipe as Black Vanilla, except increased superfatting with sweet almond another 2.5%. Used coffee FO from candlescience and a mixture of fresh and used coffee grounds (Starbucks Sumatra). Am starting to lose hope. Maybe it's just not possible to make something moisturizing with olive/palm/coconut oil.

Soap is dark brown just like the Black Vanilla. Smells strongly of chocolate. Came out of oven very oily; in fact, some oils had leached out of the bar and accumulated on the pan. Only had time to bake for 1h, so will give it a few days and pH before I use it.

Oils:
240g TJ's olive oil (60%)
100g Palm oil (25%)
60g Coconut oil (15%)
30g Sweet almond oil (+7.5% at trace)

Lye:
55g NaOH
155g water (distilled water) - accidentally overpoured 3g

Scent:
28g (1oz) coffee fragrance oil (CandleScience)

Texture:
65g of ground coffee

Notes:
- combined at 45C
- used blender at lowest setting, increments of 10s until trace, took about 30s total
- added texture, fragrance oil, and superfatting oil
- blended in 10s increments for an additional 30s until pudding-like consistency
- cast in saran wrap lined box
- baked at 65-70C for 1 hours, then let cool in oven for 18h
- at trace, mixture was dark brown.