Coconut milk

[tobyw]

Hi all,

I remember reading about using coconut milk by subtracting some quantity of water from the lye solution and then adding the same quantity of coconut milk at trace. If you do this will the soap develop a similar colour to that of soaps made using milk in the place of water or will the milk stay white? Reason I ask is I am currently infusing sage into the water to get a green colour and if the coconut milk will spoil the colour I won't bother using it on this batch.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ilovedoxies]

I don't put my coconut milk in at trace so I don't know if that makes a differenct or not. I've found if I don't let my lye, water, milk mixture get too hot it will stay white.

I mix the lye and the water, let it cool down quite a bit, then add the cold milk. The mixture will warm up a little after the addition of the milk.

 

[southernvtsoap]

I use coconut milk in every batch. I have added it at trace, mixed with my water before adding lye, as 100% of the liquid, and with my oils and have never experienced discoloration. All my soaps have stayed white, unless I used a discoloring FO.

 

[holly99]

I've only used coconut milk one time but the time I did I used it in place of water and mixed with the lye. I didn't do anything to keep it cool when mixing, etc., and it turned out off-white/light tan, but nothing like when I used goat's milk in the same way(except I kept it cool.)

 

[Guest]

I use coconut milk a lot and never had it discolor . Your choice of FO makes a difference in how white the soap stays . FO's that have vanilla in them usually will turn your soap , different shades of tan all the way to brown.


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