Powered Goat + Buttermilk

[Vickymejia4]

I am excited to start adding powered goat milk and buttermilk to my cold process recipes. Any advise on that?
I usually do (in ounces):
15,3 lard
8.5 coconut oil
8.5 canola
1.7 castor
11 water
4.84 lye
1 fragrance oils

Thank you!!!

 

[Carly B]

I usually put a scoop of goat milk powder in my oils and stick blend before I add the lye water. It works great as far as I'm concerned, although others here reconstitute it first. I almost always put goat milk in my lard soaps.

 

[shunt2011]

I mix my powdered milks in with a bit of the liquid from the batch. I find adding it directly to the oils I sometimes get lumps still. However, I mostly mix it with liquid milk and add to the oils. I mix my lye 1:1 with water and use the remainder in milk fortified with powdered to make it a full milk batch.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

Milk soaps are nice. There are quite a few threads on the forum that contain very useful information about using powdered milks in soap. Here’s a recent helpful thread on the topic:

https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/milk-powders.74250/#post-756668

 

[Nona'sFarm]

Two additional milk soaping questions on the process for experienced soapers.
At what temperature do you soap for milk soaps?
Do you gel your milk soaps?