another milk question :)

[PippiL]

Ok, I was making goatsmilk soap today with evaporated GM....from the whole liqiud amount, I did half water with lye, and the other GM.
I guess due to the smaller amont of water( 5.3) the lye had a few flakes not dissolved, so I had to keep adding a little extra water until it didn't look cloudy and flaky anymore....but I still used the entire amount of GM at Trace as well.Meaning I will have a little extra amount of liquid in the batch, is that ok???
There are many ways to make milk soap and I do like this way the best/versus the lye directly in the milk...
thanks ahead

 

[adoptapitbull]

Run your recipe through the lye calc to see the amount of water you should have added. Chances are it gave you a range of acceptable water (or milk) to add. It should be OK so long as it's not too much water.

 

[PippiL]

I did get the amount of water from the calculator...I just had to add a little more to get the lye water clear...should I have subtracted some of the Gm?Those things drive me crazy as a newbie until I'm more experienced

 

[soapbuddy]

Do you know exactly how much more water you added to dissolve the lye?

 

[PippiL]

no, but it wasn't that much more than the total amount

 

[Beatty]

Ok, I was making goatsmilk soap today with evaporated GM....from the whole liqiud amount, I did half water with lye, and the other GM.
I guess due to the smaller amont of water( 5.3) the lye had a few flakes not dissolved, so I had to keep adding a little extra water until it didn't look cloudy and flaky anymore....but I still used the entire amount of GM at Trace as well.Meaning I will have a little extra amount of liquid in the batch, is that ok???
There are many ways to make milk soap and I do like this way the best/versus the lye directly in the milk...
thanks ahead

I don't know if this will help you in the future when you're making a milk soap but one way to ensure that your milk doesn't get that nasty looking curdled look and burnt smell as it heats up when you add the caustic soda is if you use half of your water as iced water that looks like slushy ice or put your lye making bowl in iced water as you work with it so it keeps the lye mixture from overheating.

I've been doing it this way for over 60 years with great success.

 

[PippiL]

I mixed lye water first and added milk at trace, so no curdles

 

[Happy Lass]

Okay, hopefully it was not too much water. The concern is that the lye will be too diluted to do it's magic with the oil, so what you want to be looking for is any separation or oils floating out of the soap.

The other problem is that it may be really soft.

Hopefully neither of these things will happen. In either case, I think your best solution will be to let it rest in the mold a bit longer than you normally would. You want to let the excess water evapoate out and any separated oils to be re-absorbed into the soap.

Best of luck!

 

[KnowWhat]

She used a 50:50 water:lye solution. So even if she added half again as much water it isn't a problem.

I do my coconut milk soap the same way, and I regulary add extra coconut milk to the batch. I haven't had a problem yet.