GM Salt Bar?

[adoptapitbull]

I, too, have the itch to do a salt bar these days.

Can I use GM as all or part of my liquid?

And table salt is better than coarse kosher salt, correct?

 

[IrishLass]

Most definitely! I use either coconut milk or goat milk as 100% of my liquid when making my salt bars. They come out lovely.

IrishLass

 

[saltydog]

Most definitely! I use either coconut milk or goat milk as 100% of my liquid when making my salt bars. They come out lovely.

IrishLass

Do you freeze the coconut milk like the GM? Does the salt bar still come out white?

 

[saltydog]

Yes freeze it in ice cube trays. My goat milk soaps come out once cured a very light tan color. Not super white but not ugly brown either.

Good luck.

Thank you for your reply, actually, I just made my first GM soap. I was wondering about the coconut milk- do you treat that the same as the GM, as far as the freezing and is there discoloration with that, too?

 

[IrishLass]

I never, ever need to freeze mine because I use what is known as the 'split method' of milk soaping, which allows me to avoid having to dissolve my lye in my milk. (I suck at the 'frozen/slushy' method and have no patience for it.)

With the 'split method' I split the total liquid amount for my batch into 2 halves (half water/half goat milk or coconut milk). I mix the lye with 50% water, and I mix the rest of the 50% liquid as fresh goat milk*, or canned coconut milk in with my oils either before or just after adding the lye/water solution to them (*I use the refrigerated, fresh kind of goat milk sold in cartons in the cold case at the grocery store). This will give you a 50% milk soap. For a 100% milk soap using the split method, I just add enough goat milk powder or coconut powder to the fresh milk to bring the concentration level up to what would equal a 100% milk concentration for the total liquid amount of my batch, and then I stickblend that into the oils.

I gel all my milk soaps, and unless I use a discoloring FO, they all come out a creamy off-white color (both for GM and CM). If I add a little TD, they come out quite white.


IrishLass

 

[saltydog]

I never, ever need to freeze mine because I use what is known as the 'split method' of milk soaping, which allows me to avoid having to dissolve my lye in my milk. (I suck at the 'frozen/slushy' method and have no patience for it.)

With the 'split method' I split the total liquid amount for my batch into 2 halves (half water/half goat milk or coconut milk). I mix the lye with 50% water, and I mix the rest of the 50% liquid as fresh goat milk*, or canned coconut milk in with my oils either before or just after adding the lye/water solution to them (*I use the refrigerated, fresh kind of goat milk sold in cartons in the cold case at the grocery store). This will give you a 50% milk soap. For a 100% milk soap using the split method, I just add enough goat milk powder or coconut powder to the fresh milk to bring the concentration level up to what would equal a 100% milk concentration for the total liquid amount of my batch, and then I stickblend that into the oils.

I gel all my milk soaps, and unless I use a discoloring FO, they all come out a creamy off-white color (both for GM and CM). If I add a little TD, they come out quite white.


IrishLass

Oh, yes, I had read about this before, (I think you were the one who posted it) and then I couldn't find the info again! Very interesting indeed, as I am impatient myself.
I will try this method, too- sounds really good to me and a great way to avoid scorch.

IrishLass, you're so knowledgeable, did you ever consider writing a book? Do you have a blog? Maybe you did, and I just don't know. If you didn't, you should. I always find you give some of the most helpful advice around!

 

[IrishLass]

IrishLass, you're so knowledgeable, did you ever consider writing a book? Do you have a blog? Maybe you did, and I just don't know. If you didn't, you should. I always find you give some of the most helpful advice around!

You are very sweet, but trust me- if I seem knowlegable at all, you can be sure that it's only because I take good notes from the much smarter mentors who have gone before me, and also from my stockpile of idiotic 'what the heck was I thinking?' moments.

Nope- I've never written a book and I don't have a blog, although something like a blog is in the works. Don't hold your breath, though. Things have a way of moving at a slow pace around here.

IrishLass