Good GM recipes???

[walkinwounded]

I have been making Gm soap with my favourite oil recipe/combination that I started using for regular lye/water soap.
I noticed how moisturizing the soap was but it also had a lower lather and bubble content that you would see with a recipe that had more CO in it, my question is: because the GM soap is so moisturizing, could I raise the CO in my recipe without making the soap drying??

Apricot 8%
Avacado 5%
Castor 7%
CO 25%
OO 30%
Palm 20%
Cocoa Butter 5%

I know many people just Super-super fat at higher percentage and that it probably works great, but it concerns me for shelf life and would like an alternative than Super-super fatting.

Anyone have any good Goats Milk soap recipe they would like to share???

 

[adoptapitbull]

GM soap won't exactly moisturize, since soap doesn't actually add moisture to your skin.

I find that you can use any recipe with GM and it'll turn out just fine. Remember, though, that it can overheat more easily due to the sugar in the milk.

 

[Hazel]

I up CO to 28% and castor to 10% in buttermilk soaps and haven't found them drying. You may even be able to use a higher percentage of CO. Sometimes I use cream and then I'll use 30% CO. I generally use 6% or 7% SF and my soaps lather well and are also conditioning.

HTH

 

[adoptapitbull]

I wouldn't go that high on the CO even with GM.

My first soap was the standard beginner recipe of CO, OO, PO..30/40/30? Something like that. I know the CO was at 30 and my SF was 7%. Comparing those soaps to my soaps now, with CO always less than 20, is like night and day. I think my first soaps were full amount of GM, too. Now I go a little less on that so they harden quicker, too. I remember that squeaky feeling now...gives me chills thinking about it!

 

[walkinwounded]

Thanx ladies and/or gents for the input.

Hazel, why do you use buttermilk? do you have a fovourite like GM or Cow Cream, or buttermilk, why?? sorry for all the questions, still trying to find my way around milk soap making.

 

[Hazel]

No problem about questions. I started using buttermilk because one of my BIL likes drinking it occasionally. However, he never drinks very much and my sister hates to pay the price for a small container. So, she buys a half gallon and gives me some of it. I'd actually intended to make old fashioned sugar cookies with it the first time she gave me some. But it ended up in a batch of soap instead.

So the real answer as to why I use buttermilk - it's free. :wink:

Now you going to make me think and try to discuss why I like the buttermilk. All I can say is the soap is silky feeling. The lather starts out bubbly and then becomes kind of foamy. After I rinse my hands, my hands feel like I've applied moisturizer to them within a short while. Now I don't know if this is all caused by the buttermilk or the buttermilk combined with the oils but I really like it. I suppose the sugar in the buttermilk also helps with bubbles.

I'd have to say I prefer the buttermilk more than cream in soap. This is just personal preference because the soaps I've made with cream have turned out nice. I just prefer the lather in the buttermilk batches. I haven't used GM in soap. I've only used the powder and I thought it was okay. I may not have added enough or maybe powder isn't as nice in soap.

I recently bought some buttermilk powder but I haven't tried it yet. I'll have to try the powder and see how it compares to the other batches.

Does this help a little?

 

[IrishLass]

I noticed how moisturizing the soap was but it also had a lower lather and bubble content that you would see with a recipe that had more CO in it, my question is: because the GM soap is so moisturizing, could I raise the CO in my recipe without making the soap drying??

I noticed the same phenomenon happing in my GM soap. My remedy was not changing my recipe, but lowering my superfat a notch or 2. Worked like a charm.

IrishLass

 

[walkinwounded]

It helps a ton, many thanx again.