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Thanks, I think that will be the method I'm trying next!

Thanks to everyone for the advice :-) I saw the last message just now. These white floating particles were worrying me for being lye and as the soap wouldn't trace, I ended up reheating it while stirring in order to dissolve the lye. Unfortunately I overheated it (up to 85 degrees Celsius) and...

Thanks, I'll definitely buy a stick blender, but just now I'm wondering what to do. I read that lye dissolves difficult in cold water and I kept the temperature of the milk under 100 degrees F at all times. So I'm thinking that these particles might as well be lye. If that's the case and it...

Thank you for the help. I really wish these white particles are not lye, as I dissolved the lye into the milk and stirred well, but I couldn't actually see if it dissolved fully as it wasn't transparent... I have so much more to learn :crazy:

Yes, the previous recipe asked for less olive oil, so probably that's why it traced faster. My concern is if it is possible that the addition of too much goat's milk powder could affect the saponification process, because the soap is too superfattened. I can see little white particles floating...

Just to add - I used 10% cocoa butter, 10% castor oil, 20% coconut oil and 60% olive oil. I used the Brambleberry lye calculator and reconstituted 16g of goat's milk powder in 116 g distilled water. The added 54 g lye. I combined the oils and lye mixture when they were both around 25 degrees...

Hello, I am new to soap making and I made my second batch of soap today. The previous one turned out just fine and I decided to try goat's milk powder in the soap this time. I was very confused as to how to reconstitute it (the supplier didn't help much), so I chose to trust an advice on a...