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[SunRiseArts]

cmzaha is so right. Do not add milk, oils, or anything to weird to MP base. Other things like pumice, an extract, might be ok. They are not made to carry many additive, and even if it does not ruin your soap, it will not lather well.

Anything except for maybe calendula petals or poppy seeds will get brown eventually. There are many bases that content milk. Like a goats milk base, and whole sale supplies carries a buttermilk MP base.

If you make your MP correctly, the bars can last 5 years, some even more. I have a set of roses I made from like 20 years ago, that are decoration in my bathroom. At least that is my experience.

Also.

 

[earlene]

Is your MP soap sealed tightly in shrink wrap or plastic when you give it away to your friend? Is he putting it in the freezer in a sealed plastic wrapper?

I ask because, unless you bought a non-sweat soap base, that soap is more likely to draw water to itself and become a sticky mess inside the freezer. Even in a sealed plastic baggie, it could still draw water to itself in a freezer. I have no experience freezing MP soap, but it just seems like it may not be the wisest method of storage for this type of soap. I understand his thinking (milk-freezer) but he doesn't know about how Melt & Pour functions in high humidity locations. Also, according to Anne-Marie Faiola, it may also cause the soap to become brittle (reference link).

 

[Lesley Susan Madigan]

Well a month later he's still happy with the soap because its all really tiny bits I used a mould for very small star shapes so as he's using nothing else he's probably going through it fast enough to avoid spoiling by keeping what he isn't using in the fridge. He says he loves the smell it's gingerbread

 

[Lesley Susan Madigan]

I'm going to try a larger mould tonight but I won't add milk to that as I think it would be in use too long so would spoil.

It's a learning curve when I run out of this base I'm going for a goats milk one to try

Being a little broke this year my plan is everyone gets soap for Xmas so I need to start working on it as I've got loads of family and I figure a home made soap especially nicely packaged

 

[Lesley Susan Madigan]

I'm now making soap with more confidence

Did one for a friend. Didn't add colour to the melted base apart from a swirl of copper mica.

Bit of a disaster when I realized I'd get two thin soaps from the base but wanted a big one.

Ended up remelting half of it then adding it to the mould so the soap came out a rather attractive two layer soap and I got the scent right. I was using an FO that smells like Alien I like it so much I think I'll make some for myself

My first soaps are still going strong despite the milk content as are the milk content ones I did for a friend

Myself the main thing I'm loving is after just a few months of using my homemade soap my dry skin is so much better