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seemedford

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I made fresh fig soap this last weekend and it turned out great.
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How did you use the figs in the soap?

I used to make a coffee soap, using brewed espresso and grounds as an additional texture. Smelled awful as it cured, but resulted in beautiful long lasting soap.
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What is the fragrance like?  If you have used it, how does it do for washing your face.  I imagine the seeds would be an like a scrub and the sugar would be nice also.
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I used the melt and pour soap base. Cooked the pink part of fig in microwave until bubbly. Added fig to soap base. I used sugar cookie scent and a very small amount or red soap dye to mimic the inner fig color.
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A fig scented essential oil could be used but I didn't have it. Soap works great
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Very cool, Susan!
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Interesting ;)...it won't go bad?, what's the shelf life expectancy Susan?
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Use them before they mold. Even dried additives like oatmeal have a tendency to mold.

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Don't know shelf life. That's why I make small soaps when using fresh fruit.
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I've never done melt-and-pour, just traditional lye based soaps. It's been a couple years, and I understand lye is hard to come by because the meth-cookers were using it. Crazy.
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I think it will be a long time before I could ever have enough figs to waste on making soap with them :)
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I think it will be a long time before I could ever have enough figs to waste on making soap with them :)


Same here, Ed.  These fruits need to go in my belly.
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I do agree with Ed & Frank which is why I'm sure all three of us smell much worse than Susan! :D
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Very cool. But i would probably end up with a mouth full of soap..
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