My First Goats Milk

[mandolyn]

Wooohhhoooooo! Smells sooooooooo yummy & has such creammmmmy lather! It has colloidal oatmeal & honey powder it & scented with OH&H fo.

 

[heartsong]

soap

good deal, congrats! they look awesome! nice job!

 

[Deda]

Gorgeous! I love that first picture, nice presentation!

 

[mandolyn]

Gorgeous! I love that first picture, nice presentation!

Thanks to you both! Presentation is another thing I have to really work at, that & labels, so to hear that you like that first pick feels really wonderful!!

 

[topcat]

They are beautiful mandolyn - such a gorgeous creamy caramel colour! I read on another post that you had started soaping GM - do you add your GM to your lye, or afterwards like Soapmakerman?

Tanya

 

[Deda]

Thanks to you both! Presentation is another thing I have to really work at, that & labels, so to hear that you like that first pick feels really wonderful!!

Your presentation always looks nice, in all your pictures.

 

[mandolyn]

Thanks to you both! Presentation is another thing I have to really work at, that & labels, so to hear that you like that first pick feels really wonderful!!

Your presentation always looks nice, in all your pictures.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaw, thanks Deda!

 

[mandolyn]

They are beautiful mandolyn - such a gorgeous creamy caramel colour! I read on another post that you had started soaping GM - do you add your GM to your lye, or afterwards like Soapmakerman?

Tanya

I used powdered GM, reconsititued it, put it in the freezer while the lye/water cooled & I measured the oils. Then, I mixed it in with the oils, then poured in the lye/water.

Temps are freezing here, & I made it at night, so I just sat it out on the deck for 4 hrs so it could freeze. Then unmolded.

 

[Neil]

mandolyn,

Im interested to know how you molded the soap.. BTW it really looks fantastic.

 

[mandolyn]

mandolyn,

Im interested to know how you molded the soap.. BTW it really looks fantastic.

Thanks! Re the mold - trade secret. :wink:

 

[topcat]

They are beautiful mandolyn - such a gorgeous creamy caramel colour! I read on another post that you had started soaping GM - do you add your GM to your lye, or afterwards like Soapmakerman?

Tanya

I used powdered GM, reconsititued it, put it in the freezer while the lye/water cooled & I measured the oils. Then, I mixed it in with the oils, then poured in the lye/water.

Temps are freezing here, & I made it at night, so I just sat it out on the deck for 4 hrs so it could freeze. Then unmolded.

Thanks so much for the info, Mandolyn - the more I read about CP milk soaping the more I feel adding the lye to the milk is just too hard! Your way sound great - thanks again!

Tanya

 

[mandolyn]

Thanks so much for the info, Mandolyn - the more I read about CP milk soaping the more I feel adding the lye to the milk is just too hard! Your way sound great - thanks again!

Tanya

You're welcome Tanya. I can't take credit for the how of it, but I've followed lots of threads about GM here & on the soapmaking groups.

One of our MODS here on the forum - Paul, The Soapmaker Man, doesn't freeze his GM, & GM is the only soap he makes. He's a master in my book, so I read everything he posts about GM. I'm amazed at how he does it, breaks the rules, & still has beautiful soap. I've used his soap, too. It's awesome!!

I read a poster recently on one of the soapmaking groups who said she mixes everything into her oils - any additives, scent, coloring, all of it. So, I thought, hmm, I'll just add the cold GM to the oils along with the oatmeal, powdered honey, & FO, hit it with the SB, then add the lye/water. It worked!

If you have an FO that causes seizing, & you've already mixed it into the oils with your additives & color, when the lye hits the pot, you're not scrambling to add stuff before it goes to soap on a stick. It's worked so far, so I'm going to continue doing it that way. Of course, if you're swirling or doing a blind swirl with an FO you have to modify that. Some colors won't mix with the oils, so you have to watch that as well.

 

[Lindy]

Those are lovely! You guys have inspired me to try GM so I've gone looking for a fresh GM supplier and found one.....

Cheers

 

[ChrissyB]

do you think the same concept of using powdered goat milk would work with powdered coconut milk, adding it at the same time and following all the other steps?

 

[mandolyn]

do you think the same concept of using powdered goat milk would work with powdered coconut milk, adding it at the same time and following all the other steps?

Yes, I don't see why it wouldn't work with coconut milk, too.

 

[Bunny]

Love it, and great pics too.

 

[topcat]

do you think the same concept of using powdered goat milk would work with powdered coconut milk, adding it at the same time and following all the other steps?

Hi ChrissyB - I have added powdered coconut milk to about 1/3 cup aloe juice and added it at light trace with great results. Following what mandolyn has done, I feel the coconut should work added with the oils too.

Tanya

 

[misty]

so mandolyn, just to clarify, your water is reduced & your goatsmilk makes up the difference for your lye/water to make your required liquid. Does that make sense?

 

[mandolyn]

so mandolyn, just to clarify, your water is reduced & your goatsmilk makes up the difference for your lye/water to make your required liquid. Does that make sense?

Yes, that's right.

It's been a while since my original post. So here's an update:

After about 4 days the soap did get darker - not brown, but tan & literally over night. There was no gradual darkening. I noticed when I cut it, (& I did 2 batches,) that it either stuck to the cutter & pulled apart, or if left to dry longer, crumbled. It wasn't lye-heavy either. The oatmeal was really scratchy, more so than soap that has gone through gell.

So, I just did another batch today, & instead of reconstituting the GM, I just added it to the oils. I left out the honey powder & used oatmilk instead of colloidal oatmeal. It was still a tad sticky when I cut it, but nothing like the first batches. Oh, & I let it go through a full gel. The first 2 batches, I froze to avoid gel.

The recipe was exactly the same, the differences were: adding the GM powder to the oils, eliminating the honey powder, using oatmilk instead of colloidal oatmeal & allowing full gel. So far, I'm MUCH happier with the results!!!

I also tried coconut milk powder. I added it to the oils along with some clays & 1 tsp sugar syrup (shaving soap made from Paul's notes). I haven't cut those bars yet.

I'll post follow-up pics & pics of the cut bars with the coconut milk powder tomorrow.

 

[digit]

Looks right purdy and creamy.....fantabulous!!!!!

Digit