Teach Soap

I received a couple sample bottles of flavored rum as a wedding favor. I'm more of a wine girl, and after all the holiday treats, I'm not up to making a rum cake. But, it is time for making another batch of soap. Anyone try adding liquor (rum or tequila) to their soap recipe? Any hints, tips, warnings?

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Sister Notes

The alcohol content in it will make your soap seize.

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Irena
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Could you treat it like you would beer? Boil off the alcohol and go from there?

Anita

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Irena
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I made a loaf of eggnog soap with one organic egg, spiced rum, and full fat cow milk right before Christmas. If you want to use alcohol, boil the rum first on your stove to cook off the alcohol. I noticed when I did that I had to boil quit a bit cuz it vaporizes. I guess rum contains sugar and that would boost lather in your soap. But if you use spiced rum like I did, be prepared for acceleration, spices tend to do that. If you can, try hand stir instead of stick blending. And if you don't want gel, remember to pop it into your freezer after pour, it does hear up.

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Like another poster said, you can boil it off. Keep in mind most rums are 40% alcohol.

I've made rum before (don't ask), a spiced rum is usually made with brown sugar as a fermentable or a combination of molasses/brown sugar. After distillation, the rum usually goes into white oak barrels for aging. Why do I bring this up? Well, you could instead use the sugars and maybe if you *want* to include oakness I'm sure there's a way of doing it. To sum up a basic spicy rum recipe in terms of sugars used, its 10 parts brown sugar to 1 part molasses or 1 part honey (or 1/2 part honey 1/2 part molasses).

I don't know a lot about using sugars though in soap making, so someone would have to chime in with that particular.

I'd personally take the rum, mix it with some coke, add some ice and enjoy it.