Goat Milk Soap Recipe/ Brownsville Air Show

 

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This recipe is totally worth it!

My mother and I have a little side business where we make homemade bath products. It all started with goat milk soap and has expanded from there. I know every sales person says that their product is the best but ours seriously is. The lather is so incredibly rich and creamy and we add clays, oatmeal and botanicals to make it perfect for shaving and/or exfoliation, depending on your preference. We do custom orders for weddings/showers, etc. We will be selling these beauties at an airshow in Brownsville, TX on Valentines day weekend!! Check out the show here. But enough advertising... In the interest of transparency, I would like to share our recipe with the cyber world so that our customers and anyone else reading my blog can know what is in the soap they are introducing into their homes.

7lb. cold process soap:

10.5oz lye
15oz H2O
10.5oz Goat milk

22.5oz Olive Oil
21oz Coconut Oil
21oz Palm Oil
12oz Soybean Oil

1.5oz Essential/Fragrance Oil
1/4-1/2cup additive (Clays, botanicals, etc.)


**We do not use artificial colorants-- colors are achieved through clays and vegetable powders.
***Our vegan soaps use an equal amount of water in place of the goat milk. Also, we are our own testers-- we don't test our products on our kitties or any other animal.
****If you are going to attempt to recreate this recipe, please use all necessary safety precautions when dealing with sodium hydroxide (lye), which you can find here. (Keep animals and pets away, use gloves and eye wear, etc.)

You will also need...

large pot (I use one of those huge lobster ones)
stick blender
meat thermometer
molds (ours are handmade wooden ones that we line with glossy paper)
Glass container for mixing lye, water and goat milk
whisk

Start by making the lye solution as this takes the longest to cool. measure out lye, water and gm. make sure the water is in a glass container with high sides. Pour lye into water while whisking. when it is mostly dissolved, pour in goat milk. This will react, get very hot and turn orange. This is the fats in the milk reacting with the lye. leave this to cool in a safe place where getting knocked over is very unlikely.

Continue on by melting together olive, palm, and coconut oils in pot on stove. When there are no more solid chunks of palm or coconut, turn off heat and pour in soybean oil.

While waiting for your lye solution and oils to cool to 120degrees F each, you can line your molds, or do whatever else. It usually takes around 45min for me.

When your items are cooled, put your stick blender in the oil and turn it on so that it is blending while you pour the lye solution in. Be very careful, I cannot stress this enough Continue to mix it together with the blender for a good five minutes. This may seem excessive and boring while you do it, but it is important to mix thoroughly. If it is not mixed thoroughly, you could end up with lye pockets in your soap that will burn your skin when you use it. It is undergoing a chemical change as you mix it with the oils so let it do its thing and mix it up good! At this point, it should begin to become a little thicker. The consistency of runny cake batter is a good way to think of it. When your there, add the essential oil and additive, mix it in, and pour it all into your mold.

Once it is poured into the mold, be sure to keep it warm. We wrap ours up in blankets. This is important as it needs to keep as much of its heat as possible to continue its transformative journey from oils and lye to soap.

Make sure to be very careful not to touch the raw soap and do the dishes right away so that no little people or animals get a hold of this stuff.

We usually unwrap our soap in two days and cut it up then too. It will be safe to touch at this point. The soap will need to cure for 6-8 weeks before use to ensure that no trace of active lye is left in there and you are good to go!

PS: We will be at an airshow in Brownsville, TX on Valentines day weekend selling our lovely products!! Check it out here.