Shortly before Christmas, 2012, I featured a gift-giving guide here at CocoaJava.  A good friend then emailed me to let me know about a friend of hers who made goat milk soap with coffee grounds in it, thinking it would be a perfect addition to my gift list.  I’ve used coffee grounds in soaps and scrubs in the past with good results, so this sounded like a good idea to me. I added Meadowfly...
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If you love coffee, most likely you are generating used coffee grounds, and lots of them. Are you tossing them in the trash? Don’t! There’s plenty of uses for them! Read on. Skin and Hair Care Used grounds make a good skin facial pack – sort of like a mud pack. They can be used carefully for skin dermabrasion. Fans of homemade tattoos sometimes mix coffee and henna to create a dye for permanent...
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I am reviving this review that I wrote back in 2007, just for the fun of it.  Coffee Snob is now out of business, and this Cold Drip Coffee Maker is no longer in production. However, it is still a featured item in my home – still functional, and very, VERY decorative. I am very proud to own it!  And really, let’s admit it. This is the essential Steampunk machine of choice. ~~~ Okay,...
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Jim Cameron is a 30 year veteran in the Specialty Coffee Industry and charter member of the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America). Having sold his roasting business, Jim now uses the skills and contacts with importers and brokers developed in 30 years of roasting to purchase, cup and sell green beans to the home roasting trade. His company, u-roast-em, is a great source for green coffee beans you can be certain are of the...
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