So i made some spur of the moment soap a while ago, milk soap , for the first time.
I used some whole, pastured cow milk we had laying about with a recipe vastly different from my usual. I have it written down somewhere but it was something like 60% palm, 25% soy and then some castor and coconut oil.
I used the freeze method and stirred that sucker for ages to make sure all the lye was fully dissolved, the milk stayed a nice creamy white, although it was slightly thicker than typical milk.
I soaped on the room temp side with my oils so they weren't too much hotter than my milk. The entire thing accelerated, reaching medium trace in about 10 seconds of blending then thick trace while i poured. Waited a few days, cut it and was thrilled with how it looked, and lathered (it wasnt zappy so i tried a tiny scrap out <,<).
Thing is now, two days after cutting it has little (maybe 1-2 mm each) brownish dots appearing in it.
My thought is its either DoS or maybe tiny fragments of caramelized sugar from the milk?
I would include a picture, but the dots are so tiny thus far that they dont really show up on my camera.
(note: All the oils i used are getting on a year old, which is why i used such a strange recipe. Trying to use up what i have before it turns. It all smells and looks as it did they day i bought them)
I used some whole, pastured cow milk we had laying about with a recipe vastly different from my usual. I have it written down somewhere but it was something like 60% palm, 25% soy and then some castor and coconut oil.
I used the freeze method and stirred that sucker for ages to make sure all the lye was fully dissolved, the milk stayed a nice creamy white, although it was slightly thicker than typical milk.
I soaped on the room temp side with my oils so they weren't too much hotter than my milk. The entire thing accelerated, reaching medium trace in about 10 seconds of blending then thick trace while i poured. Waited a few days, cut it and was thrilled with how it looked, and lathered (it wasnt zappy so i tried a tiny scrap out <,<).
Thing is now, two days after cutting it has little (maybe 1-2 mm each) brownish dots appearing in it.
My thought is its either DoS or maybe tiny fragments of caramelized sugar from the milk?
I would include a picture, but the dots are so tiny thus far that they dont really show up on my camera.
(note: All the oils i used are getting on a year old, which is why i used such a strange recipe. Trying to use up what i have before it turns. It all smells and looks as it did they day i bought them)
