salt and milk?

[momof7]

Okay, now I'm getting excited to try both goats milk and also to try salt bars! Are they ever made together? A salt bar made with goats milk? Or does the salt soap get too hot? I don't have the pleasure of having my own goats and have seen that fresh goats milk is very expensive - does canned goats milk work as well for less cost?
Thanks!

 

[krissy]

i did a salt bar with coconut milk as the liquid, so i am sure you could do it with GM, just keep an eye on it. and be ready to cut very very early, or better yet, use single cavity molds.

 

[IrishLass]

My regular go-to salt bar that I make nowadays is made with either goat milk or coconut milk as part of my total water amount and it comes out great.

You can use fresh, canned, or powdered milk. It's all up to you. I myself like to use fresh, and sometimes a combo of fresh and powdered depending on what I'm trying to achieve. If you have a Trader Joe's nearby, I've found them to have the most reasonable price on fresh (about 2 or 3 dollars cheaper than my regular grocery store).

My salt soap gets fairly hot, but that's okay by me because I want it to gel. I just make sure to keep an eye on it so things don't get too out of hand (i.e., cracking or volcanoing), and also to monitor its gelling progress so that I can cut it immediately after it has firmed back up from gel (usually only an hour or 2 after pour). So far, it has never overheated on me.


IrishLass

 

[MeadowHillFarmCT]

Yup - I use fresh (frozen) GM for 100% of my liquid (in all my soaps).. I don't have any issues other than the normal "salt" bar issues that everyone has already stated.