Goat Milk Soap yummm! Best stuff ever!

[onebizebee]

[Doug Hodges]

It does look good enough to eat.

[hiddensprings]

Love Goat's Milk Soap! I've been making it like crazy to get ready for all of the festivals, fairs, and Christmas shows I am participating in this year.

[onebizebee]

Smells good too! lol I had to stop my dad from taking a bite of one a few weeks ago. They are curing in my laundry/mud room. He walked in and said oh good these smell good which one can I have to eat? lol um dad unless you have a really dirty mouth I suggest you wash your hands with them instead!
Those are scented with sweet grass and dirt for the green and brown one. It is a garden/kitchen soap with coffee grounds for the dirt! then There is black raspberry vanilla my fav! The next one is orange cranberry. Then a carrot oatmeal honey. There are several others that are not shown that are unscented oat meal and honey.

[onebizebee]

Originally Posted by hiddensprings

Love Goat's Milk Soap! I've been making it like crazy to get ready for all of the festivals, fairs, and Christmas shows I am participating in this year.

That's wonderful I hope you do really well in sales! I am getting all mine ready for christmas presents this year. We are doing a homemade Christmas!

[wintrrwolf]

I dont know why but we do love making our soap smell like food ... lol
The ones I last made my Aunt said smelled like sugar cookies mmmmm
Did you start out doing hot process first?
I did its ok but the cold process looks so much prettier.

[Backfourty,MI.]

They all look so pretty, I bet they smell great too!

[onebizebee]

Thanks everyone! Nope I jumped in feet first and started with cold process. I have been soaping for 10 years now. I started making it for my daughter because of her skin problems.

[Willow30]

any recipes to make this soap? I am trying to gather as much info as possible before I take the plunge and buy my goats.

[The Tin Mom]

Originally Posted by Willow30

any recipes to make this soap? I am trying to gather as much info as possible before I take the plunge and buy my goats.

Me, too! I would love any hints you can share.

[onebizebee]

Sure check out this site and all their recipes they are wonderful!http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-bo...soap-queen-tv/

I use a lot of their recipes!

Key for non stinky scorched milk is this. say your recipe calls for 12 oz of milk. I measure out 5 oz of water and mix my lye in to the water first. I float my stainless steel bowl containing the lye and water in an ice bath. To cool it down asap! Once it is very chilled I add my 7 oz of refrigerated goat milk to that. This keeps everythign from overheating when the chemical reaction occurs with the lye. Preventing your milk from scorching and smelling like burnt cat pee! This applies for any milk!

[lathermaker]

If you've never made soap before, start with a formula that has water, not milk. Learn how the batch is supposed to behave before adding other ingredients. It will save you a whole lot of swearing starting out!
www.millersoap.com is a great place for newbies to start.

[LFRJ]

Originally Posted by lathermaker

If you've never made soap before, start with a formula that has water, not milk. Learn how the batch is supposed to behave before adding other ingredients. It will save you a whole lot of swearing starting out!
www.millersoap.com is a great place for newbies to start.

(sigh) sorry you said this. I was just getting my nerve up. I've wanted to make soap for years and we have so much milk, we give it to the geese and chickens - just can't find anyone to teach us how to make soap...and am afraid of an explosion or something worse if we try it ourselves without a tutor.

[onebizebee]

I made this recipe the very first time I made soap. It turned out well and was easy. I decided I liked it. Then I went straight in to milk soaps. Learn the rules of safety first. Always wear eye protection and gloves( a full Face shied is better if you can find one). Stir with your face as far away from the solution as possible, don't breath the fumes! If you spill lye dilution is the solution. Lots and lots of water!~ Do not waste your time with vinegar. Rinse with lots of water. The next BIG rule is Always add your lye to your water or milk or other liquid. NEVER NEVER NEVER add water to lye. You will have a disaster and a big dangerous mess to clean up if you do. Do not make soap around kids and pets. If you have small children wait to soap until they are in bed and asleep for the night. Do not make your lye solution in glass. I am a glass artist. Lye will weaken your glass over a period of time. It will break on you and ugg another dangerous mess to clean up. I use a stainless steel bowl. And a stainless steel spoon. NOT a Wood spoon. Lye will break down wood as well leaving little slivers of wood in your soap. I use my lye at room temp or cold. My oils are always less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Measure everything by weight. So you weigh out your oils etc. I use a food scale from walmart that measures in grams, ounces and pounds. Read read read. Google is a wonderful resource. DO NOT FOLLOW NANCY TODAYS way of soap making on youtube. Omg disaster waiting to happen. EEEEK!
A beginner's recipe to stir the imagination

There are endless combinations in soapmaking, limited only by your ingenuity, budget and natural law. Keep your first batch simple.
Very simple soap
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons Crisco
1 1/3 cups olive oil
1/4 cup robic lye (from lowes)
6 fluid ounces cool distilled water
Arrange for two hours without interruptions. Wear long sleeves. Put on safety glasses and gloves. Keep vinegar at hand for lye splashes.
Measure the cool water in the heatproof cup. Place it in the sink, where it can't be knocked over. Working in a well-ventilated area, measure the lye. Hold your breath (not because of the danger, but because there will be fumes) and pour the lye slowly into the water, stirring until dissolved. The lye solution will top 175 degrees.
Place the Crisco in the stainless-steel pot over low heat until it melts (about 20 minutes). Add the olive oil. After another 15 minutes, take the soap pot off the heat.
Within five minutes, both the pot and the heatproof cup should feel toasty (about 115 degrees if you have a glass candy thermometer) but not hot. Slowly pour the lye solution into the fats, stirring steadily. The mixture will lighten and start to thicken.
Looking for trace. Stir diligently for 15 minutes, or until the soap traces. Trace occurs when a bit of raw soap, dribbled from the spatula across the surface, leaves "traces" for a few seconds before sinking back in. If you don't get trace after 15 minutes, take a 10-minute break. Stir another 15 minutes. Repeat. Your soap should eventually trace. (If it doesn't, recheck your measurements. You may have to start over.)
At trace, stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons scent and pour the soap immediately into the mold. Insulate. Scrape the leftover soap in the pot onto a paper towel and toss it.
Wash the utensils in hot water.
The cure. Leave the soap undisturbed for 24 hours. It will heat up as it goes through its chemical reaction, then cool. When the soap is firm, cut into four to six bars and put them in a dry, well-ventilated place, away from kids and pets.

[cthomas]

Your soap looks awesome, cant wait to try making some myself

[Willow30]

Thanks for the advice and links everyone. I can't wait to try this! I'll try with water first so I'll hopefully be a pro at this by the time I have goat milk to use

[fadedpolaris]

I can't wait to make my own soap! Ahhhh~