Problems with goatmilk soap

[MeadowHillFarmCT]

Beautiful soaps!!!

I'm just trying to wrap my head around mixing milk with lye

So, I'm freezing the whole amount of milk, needed in my formula to a slushy stage, then add lye to it and mix it. Let it cool down and mix it with my oils, am I correct?

I like the color Honey and oats will make it drker - the second picture is just goat milk and oil.

You can do it two ways. Get the milk slushy and slowly add the lye to the milk. Watch the temp and don't let it get past 100 to 110ish to keep the color light. If it heats up to much then stir and wait until the temp comes back down before you add more lye. The higher the temp goes the darker the milk will get. It will take a while. I usually put the container I am mixing the lye/milk in a bucket of ice water to keep it cool. It will be hard and time consuming.

Another way is freeze half the milk into cubes and the other half slushy this way if the temp goes too high you can add some of the frozen milk cubes. You would alternate lye and frozen milk cubes.

Hope this helps. I wasn't too clear last time

 

[EZ_Girl]

I just mixed a batch. I had lye mixed with a little bit of water ahead of time, so my oils and lye water were about 72F each. At medium trace I added goat milk that I kept in a freezer. It didn't got slushy, just wasn't enough time, but it was cold.
Right now it is nice creamy color. I didn't add honey this time, and I didn't wrap it into the blanket. Hopefully, it will stay in this color, will see and post pics tomorrow!
Thanks for your help!!!

 

[EZ_Girl]

Yay!!!
Here are my goodies, 4 batches

This is Almond and honey, nice brown color:
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Just plain GM, no FO, no honey, no colorant:


This one GM with bergamot and camomile, no honey:



This one is GM with banana FO and walnut seeds (smells amazing!). But I'm a little bit nervous to cut it ))URL=http://img807.imageshack.us/i/p1040030.jpg/]

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[krissy]

i am adoring your round soap right now!! i am just about to pour a small batch in a round mold and hope mine turns out as nice.

 

[ToniD]

soap looks good! I really like the round one!

 

[MeadowHillFarmCT]

Very nice

I see you got the GM process down... They are gorgeous looking soap. Post cut pictures..

 

[MizzBee]

Nice looking soaps! Really love the round one

 

[EZ_Girl]

Thank you!!!
I actualy left home yesterday and went to Chicago, so my husband cut them tonight, and they all turned out!!! I'm so excited, yay!!!
I'll post pictures when I'll come back home.
Thank you so much for all your help!

 

[paillo]

love the round one, beautiful, eager to see cut pix!

speaking of molds, i see you have an acrylic one. how do you like it, and, if i may ask, where did you buy it?

thanks!

 

[EZ_Girl]

Yes, I'm using the acrylic mold, I bought it here: http://www.soap-making-resource.com/acr ... molds.html

Expensive, but my husband needed one to see how it was made, so he can make me more. I absolutely love it! Very easy to use, no linening with wax paper, cleaning is super easy. I won't go back to the wooden one.