Goats Milk and no Goats Milk edit to include recipe

pixybratt · Jan 25, 2011

So way back in early November I made a batch of soap with calandulla in it and on it it was a fairly easy recipe so when I was given some goats milk 2 weeks later I though oh I'll just use the same recipe.

The fragrance of the goats milk was divine so when all was said and done I ended up using a bar of it first, and I was disappointed in the later everything else about the soap is great, and it is a hit with my family. I just assumed the one with no goats milk would be about the same with lather, but I tried a bar in the shower last night and it had good lather, not huge or big but a nice medium lather.

Has anyone else noticed this or did it just end up with more super fat because of the goats milk and that effect the lather?
I have made it a habbit to stay at 5-6% until I have a better handle on things.

any input would be great

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32 oz 48.% POO
17 26% Coconut Oil
8oz 12% palm kernel flakes
6oz 9% Castor oil
3oz 5% Liquid Lanolin Wax

264g lye
617g water in 1 goats milk in the other

Love muffin FO in the goats milk one and i soooo love it

Woodland Soap · Jan 25, 2011

Lather

I think it's the lactose (sugar) in the milk that produces most of the additional lather that you've noticed.

SudsyKat · Jan 25, 2011

I'm sorry - I'm quite confused by the wording of the original post. I do believe she/he was saying that the soap with the goat's milk in it had less lather and was disappointing. Is that right?

Bukawww · Jan 25, 2011

Milk soap is like washing with lotion IMO - and I LOVE it! Sometimes the bubbles aren't as fluffy but the feeling after the wash is well worth it.

Woodland Soap · Jan 25, 2011

Lather

Sudsykat, I guess you're right. I misread since in my experience milk soap has significantly more lather.

pixybratt · Jan 25, 2011

yes it has less lather, but I still love it.

I am not into big hugs bubble (unless I want a bubble bath) but I'm trying to get my mum to use my soap, and she will use or try to anyway the goats milk but I know her pretty well and I know she it going to want a bit more bubble, is there anything I can do about it?

SudsyKat · Jan 25, 2011

I don't know what your recipe was, but adding castor oil (I do between 6 and 9 percent) really makes a lovely lather. Some say that adding sugar helps with lather as well (you would add 2 Tbsp sugar PPO, totally dissolved in hot distilled water) - I add it at trace (once the sugar water has cooled down).

pixybratt · Jan 25, 2011

i'll post it as soon as i find the print out

falldowngobump · Jan 25, 2011

I love goatsmilk soap and I find the lather of the first batch I made more creamy than bubbly. I modified and played around a little and have started adding sugar and castor--the bubble has improved and it's still a very mild soap. Like it even better now. I gave a bar to a friend, she said it was like a bubble bath in the shower. She loved it.