Today was the first day that I actually made soap, so now I am waiting to see how it turns out!
Also today when I was rummaging though the freezers after the frozen lard for the soap, I discovered that I had mountains of frozen jersey colostrum in there. You know how things get shuffled to the bottom to be re-discovered later on!!
Well I had forgotten how much colostrum was actually in there.
We always freeze some colostrum almost every year because if a "bummer" calf or other weak critter comes through, a meal of thawed colostrum gives them an incredible boost being much higher in butterfat, proteins, sugars, vitamins, antibodies etc than normal milk.
The old time Europeans claimed that colostrum was a cure all for every kind of disease out there. I have heard them myself raving about its health benefits.
I have noticed since we have been using homemade goats milk soap on the one family member with eczema, and seen an over all improvement in the condition, the mental wheels have been turning about colostrum soap. .
The one question is because it is much higher in butterrfat than milk how would one calculate how much lye to use, and how much would one cut back on some of the conditioning ingrediants?? One doesn't want a soap that is so creamy it is slimy....
I have no idea how high the butterfat of the colostrum from a Jersey would be, as their normal milk butterfat ranges an average of 4--5.5 percent with the odd one going even higher, and of course colostrum butterfat is higher yet. Jersey milk is also usually quite a bit higher in protein than other milk breeds, sometimes going over the 4% mark.
Holstein butterfat ranges an average of about 2.7-- 3.8 or there about..and their protein is also lower.
There is quite a difference in milk composition.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to make jersey colostrum soap??
thanks
Also today when I was rummaging though the freezers after the frozen lard for the soap, I discovered that I had mountains of frozen jersey colostrum in there. You know how things get shuffled to the bottom to be re-discovered later on!!
Well I had forgotten how much colostrum was actually in there.We always freeze some colostrum almost every year because if a "bummer" calf or other weak critter comes through, a meal of thawed colostrum gives them an incredible boost being much higher in butterfat, proteins, sugars, vitamins, antibodies etc than normal milk.
The old time Europeans claimed that colostrum was a cure all for every kind of disease out there. I have heard them myself raving about its health benefits.
I have noticed since we have been using homemade goats milk soap on the one family member with eczema, and seen an over all improvement in the condition, the mental wheels have been turning about colostrum soap. .
The one question is because it is much higher in butterrfat than milk how would one calculate how much lye to use, and how much would one cut back on some of the conditioning ingrediants?? One doesn't want a soap that is so creamy it is slimy....
I have no idea how high the butterfat of the colostrum from a Jersey would be, as their normal milk butterfat ranges an average of 4--5.5 percent with the odd one going even higher, and of course colostrum butterfat is higher yet. Jersey milk is also usually quite a bit higher in protein than other milk breeds, sometimes going over the 4% mark.
Holstein butterfat ranges an average of about 2.7-- 3.8 or there about..and their protein is also lower.
There is quite a difference in milk composition.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to make jersey colostrum soap??
thanks
