Well. I didn't expect *that*... :chagrined:

[fillycate]

Super happy with my "for skin" liquid goat milk soap. Not using it yet, as I made it cold process and and letting it cure a bit. Will be using in foamers with significant dilution and seeing how I like that.

So, today I wanted to make a %100 coconut liquid soap, with goat milk as the water, for cleaning "things-not-skin." Dishes, laundry, etc. I put in a %-3 superfat because I use high-fat Nigerian goat milk, which can be up to %10 butterfat. I wanted to know how the goat milk, with its sugars and salts and other complicated parts, behave in a cleansing soap. Since I have *so* much goat milk at my disposal, why not?

Goat milk: 30.4 oz
KOH lye:. 23.53 oz
Coconut oil:. 80 oz

Okay, making up the soap with my KOH lye, and things are going fine. I am on a crazy high, watching how fast all the chemical reactions are happening. Then suddenly, I reach a dead end.

The soap becomes so stiff, it is absolutely unstirrable. And the soap is heating on its own beyond what I wanted it to heat at. I have run out of ice on my little homestead, and have it in a water bath in the sink in hopes to keep it from getting too hot.

But this utterly unstirrable state... That surprised me. I was not expecting this. I couldn't stir it if I wanted to.

Is this going to be okay? Is this normal?

 

[shunt2011]

For cleaning and laundry you want a 0 sf. You don’t want excess oils especially for laundry. I generally do -1 sf as lyes not 100% And if your adding milk it’s going to up the SF. I use water for my 100% CO soap.

you don’t have enough liquid. For HP it’s 1:3. That’s why it seized up. Plus the cooking.

 

[fillycate]

Thanks, shunt2011, I get that. That is why I set the superfat at -3. I am experimenting here, after all. I am happy to tweak and make changes later. It is the becoming a solid mass that I am asking about in this particular thread.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Take it off heat, cover it, go to bed and call me in the morning! LOL

Seriously, fillycate, you can just do nothing. Sometimes soap just has a way of doing it's own thing. The less you attempt to do anything at this time is key. Watch and learn.

 

[fillycate]

Ok, that I can do.