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I didn't realize goat milk and coconut means heat in the mold. :/

I said I wouldn't make another batch until my stick blender comes in the mail in over a week. So here I am making my second batch with a potato masher! This time I added essential oils, just a hint of floral and woody. Calling it Misty Forest. :) I just had to make it. The refined bacon...

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I can totally understand why. This is a very personal choice and decision. Part of why I am considering pouring them into an ice cube tray and keeping them frozen until using. I have had sensitive skin all my life and had various skin issues. I am very curious to know how a home made goat...

I understand there is a huge risk in making goat milk lotion to sell. But I want to at the very least make it for me. 😊 I am considering making it and freezing it in an ice cube tray and just taking out one cube at a time.

Thank you! I will definitely check her out. :) Hot ****, it's soap!

Ewww, then someone is selling soap as a lip balm and lotion. Thank you for the insight that the goat milk is but a tiny percentage based on the order of ingredients. I didn't catch that.

Gotcha. Looking forward to getting my new stick blender so I can use it properly. :) My very first batch that I made in 2009 ended up full of air bubbles, floating in water, and disappearing quickly. I must have over blended.

So, my passion is finding ways to use my farm goat milk in skin care products. I have been informed that goat milk lotion is a very dicey prospect. I have been reading about it and collecting information. As I have been doing so, I have come across some obscure situations where someone has made...

Thank you, AliOop! Great information. I wish more recipes would talk about the danger of burning out the motor with too much continuous running. I see lots of recipes saying to do bursts, but not that that is part of the reason why. (Dammit, I always wanna know the why!!) For example, knowing...

Thank you, Hope Ann. I appreciate the advice and the nudge for where to learn more. I want to understand fully what I am up against and what is possible, as this is something I would really love to make work.

Okay, no glass. :) In the future I will stick blend the goat milk lye solution. This batch was small enough that I worried it would splash really badly, and now I don't have a working stick blender at all because it broke. :p I am so excited to make more soap, but I will hold off until my new...

Thank you linnie1gi. I will relegate the glass to only oils. I am seeing some white spots forming in the soap. Poop. :( I understand this is a danger with goat milk.

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Thank you all so much for the information and feedback! I feel like a proud mother hen every time I look at this batch sitting in the mold. It definitely went through gel phase, which I wasn't sure it would do, since it never even got to trace before I poured it, and I am still so new and have a...

Thank you. 😊 I am looking forward to seeing how this batch comes out. Okay, so sunlight can cause rancidity? I understand there are likely reasons people don't put their soap in the sun, I just want to understand what those reasons are, since the Delany sister's apparently put their soap in...

Hello! I have been flirting with the idea of being a soap maker for a very long time. I am a passionate and dedicated dairy goat farmer, and I love the idea of using my milk to make soap, and maybe lotions and other things. I joined this forum maybe a decade ago and made exactly one batch of...

I edited my post above to explain that all the amounts I put in were correct (same amount of fat, just different kinds, goat milk frozen instead of liquid). But after the oil separated in the first 24 hours, I imagine the lye was out of balance with the rest of the stuff. So maybe if I...

Good to know about chicken fat and soft soap. I had read that beef tallow makes it very hard, so maybe they cancel each other out. :) The amount of animal fat was the same as what my recipe called for, it just called for only one kind and I put in three. The amounts I put in were the same as...

OK, so I made my first batch. It was a goatmilk, honey, oatmeal recipe. I admit, I didn't follow the recipe perfectly. First, I didn't have enough of the kind of animal fat it called for, so I used what I had on hand until it was enough (beef, goat, chicken--is chicken OK?) Also, it called...