Lard Goats Milk Soap

[2lilboots]

This was my first attempt with both Lard and Goats milk. I decorated the top with some of the zillions of butterflies that I made the other day.

 

[thefarmerdaughter]

Very pretty and spring-like!

 

[petrolejka]

all your soap is so awesome! Looks really pretty, can't wait for cut pictures.

How do you find the time to make so much soap? I want to make soap but something/someone always interferes

 

[2lilboots]

My kids are grown up, I have one pet who is pretty good. I am off work until January....so I have a good bit of time. Next month I probably won't be able to soap at all. So I need to get it out of my system right now.

So there I was wiping out my soapmaking containers and I noticed my soap was rising on the sides....YIKES! Needless to say this will be some strange looking soap, because the bottom is gelling, the top isn't going to so the colors may be kinda crappy looking when all is said and unmolded.

 

[Hausfrau007]

Oh my! I love those Pepsi bottle idea, lol.

 

[SoapAddict415]

Pretty soap, great idea! After yesterdays soap overflowed on me, I decided to freeze water in a plastic "shoe box". Now the next time I use that FO or make a milk soap, the mold can sit on ice while I pour the batter in.

 

[2lilboots]

Pretty soap, great idea! After yesterdays soap overflowed on me, I decided to freeze water in a plastic "shoe box". Now the next time I use that FO or make a milk soap, the mold can sit on ice while I pour the batter in.

I think with every lessoned learned we get rather creative with our soapmaking ideas.

 

[Genny]

It's gorgeous! All your butterflies turned out beautiful. Can't wait to see it cut

 

[chicklet]

So pretty - and so smart with the Pepsi bottles!

 

[Hausfrau007]

I wouldn't have the heart to cut those pretty butterflies!!

 

[2lilboots]

I wouldn't have the heart to cut those pretty butterflies!!

I am not going to cut the butterflies if I can help it. I think I angled so that I can go inbetween to cut the bars of soap. Of course when the sides started moving up it did shift some of the butterflies, so I will see.

 

[2lilboots]

Hausfrau you were right, Lard does make a very hard bar of soap. The yellow color is mainly because of the condensed goats milk I used in the recipe. I cannot find fresh goats milk. This sucker was hard as a rock this morning so I went ahead and cut my soap bars. I would like to try a beer soap, but I am not sure how I will handle the gel stage after what happened with this soap. I want to put my beer soap into my small oatmeal cannaster but don't want it to come bubbling out of the top. Most of the things I have read about beer soap is that ppl gel them, so how do they keep them from overheating if they are wrapped up as if it is 30 below? :?: I guess I will just have it sitting on the counter like this batch so I can watch it in case I would need to cool it down quickly.

 

[Genny]

For beer soap, I usually let it get flat & then boil it for about 10 - 15 minutes. The boiling is supposed to boil out the alcohol. I no nothing about beer, so I have no idea if it's true. Then I put it in the freezer to get slushy. When combining my lye onto my beer, I put my mixing pitcher in an ice bath and add the lye really slowly, while stirring.
I don't go out of my way to insulate my beer soaps since they tend to heat up and gel without help.

 

[AlchemyandAshes]

Most of the things I have read about beer soap is that ppl gel them, so how do they keep them from overheating if they are wrapped up as if it is 30 below? :?: I guess I will just have it sitting on the counter like this batch so I can watch it in case I would need to cool it down quickly.

I only lightly insulate my beer soaps and have not had any disastrous effects because of it
I place a towel on the counter under my mold, then invert a cardboard box over top like a dome and place a towel over that. I've only had a small crack from overheating occur if I don't check it...but I'm a "peeker", so I probably let out a little heat doing that When I see its reached full gel, I either remove all the insulation, or just the towel. I think most people "embrace the gel" with their beer soaps because they heat so much on their own, to avoid a partial gel, they encourage gel.

 

[2lilboots]

Most of the things I have read about beer soap is that ppl gel them, so how do they keep them from overheating if they are wrapped up as if it is 30 below? :?: I guess I will just have it sitting on the counter like this batch so I can watch it in case I would need to cool it down quickly.

I only lightly insulate my beer soaps and have not had any disastrous effects because of it
I place a towel on the counter under my mold, then invert a cardboard box over top like a dome and place a towel over that. I've only had a small crack from overheating occur if I don't check it...but I'm a "peeker", so I probably let out a little heat doing that When I see its reached full gel, I either remove all the insulation, or just the towel. I think most people "embrace the gel" with their beer soaps because they heat so much on their own, to avoid a partial gel, they encourage gel.

I am bad too, I am a peeker as well. I don't soap as warm as you do(I think I have read that you soap around 110, I usually try for 85-90 degrees F), but that didn't matter yesterday. I am going to have to dig in the closet to find a taller box to cover my oatmeal cannister. It is only an 18 oz size so I should be able to find something that works. Plus with it being cardboard it probably won't get as hot as my wooden mold does. Even my silicone molds don't get that hot and I would have to wrap them up with towels inside boxes that I would cover with my insulated winter coats just so they would go thru gel.

 

[2lilboots]

For beer soap, I usually let it get flat & then boil it for about 10 - 15 minutes. The boiling is supposed to boil out the alcohol. I no nothing about beer, so I have no idea if it's true. Then I put it in the freezer to get slushy. When combining my lye onto my beer, I put my mixing pitcher in an ice bath and add the lye really slowly, while stirring.
I don't go out of my way to insulate my beer soaps since they tend to heat up and gel without help.

I don't even like the smell of beer(I like wine), but I want to see what all the fuss is about when it comes to beer soap. And, I am not about to waste my wine to make soap with it. I will just waste the bf's beer...lol! I was going to boil the beer, cool it then measure it and freeze it in an icecube tray. Then do the sprinkle sprinkle stir stir method with my lye.

 

[2lilboots]

What if I use 1/2 beer and 1/2 unsweetened almond milk to make the soap? Anyone do beer soaps with some sort of milk?

 

[Seifenblasen]

Yes! I made Drunken Goat soap - roughly 1/3 water, 1/3 beer, 1/3 goat milk. Beer seems to give larger bubbles while goat milk seems to create creamier tiny bubbles, so I thought I would combine the two. I used frozen beer and ice-cold water to make the lye solution and added goat milk at trace.

You do have to watch out for overheating. Instead of using my usual wooden mold, I used a milk carton and keep it in the fridge for 24 hours. Once tried to pull it out after 12 hours and it started to heat up again and ended up with a partial gel.

 

[Hausfrau007]

The soaps are even more gorgeous now that they're cut.

 

[AlchemyandAshes]

What if I use 1/2 beer and 1/2 unsweetened almond milk to make the soap? Anyone do beer soaps with some sort of milk?

I haven't mixed beer & milk, but my recent best selling soap is a Sea Salt & Beer bar scented with lime, Litsea, & patchouli.