Lye Temperature

[nataly28]

Hello Everyone,

This is my first questions! (yay!) and I was wondering what temperature you should wait for your lye to be before adding your goat milk. I usually wait until it is 95 degrees, and then add my frozen goat milk. Is this too low? My trace seems to happen just fine and it thickens...

 

[Traceyann]

I soap at room temp when making GM soap, I would think that that would be even lower than 95 dg

 

[nataly28]

Thank you for helping me! Okay, I feel a lot better! Maybe some people want it hotter so it gels?

 

[dieSpinne]

I am not an expert at Goatsmilk yet, but I am finding that it gels just fine at room temperature because of all the sugars in the milk. I actually have to go to extraordinary measures to keep the temperature LOW enough to keep the soap from separating.

 

[Lynnz]

I use my lye at room temp but have to pop into freezer for a bit before refridgerating to avoid partial gel

 

[Relle]

I use all GM and add my lye to the frozen GM, so don't worry about temps.

 

[chrisofcups]

I also add lye directly to frozen GM (not slushy). If you do it slowly it actually can take a while to get it to reach 95, so there is never really any threat of it burning.