Oatmeal milk and honey

[jdranch]

Good morning!

There are a lot of oatmeal, milk, and honey recipes out there, but I'd really like to just add oatmeal and honey to my own. Is there some *standard* or guideline, for adding honey and oatmeal (like 1 tp/ one cup per # of soap or oils)? I have been using sugar to get more lather- can I still keep the sugar in with the honey?

Jennifer

 

[agriffin]

I like to add one tablespoon PPO of each honey and oatmeal.

I do it two ways.

Go ahead and add to your oils and hit with your stick blender or you can make a slurry with a bit of water and add at trace.

Both work well, I tend to go with adding it to melted oils, right before I add my lye.

I would omit the sugar (although it's not necessary). Honey heats up so babysit this after your pour.

 

[rubyslippers]

I also add 1 Tbl honey PPO but I like the scrubbie feeling of the oatmeal so I add .50 oz PPO. At very light trace, I sprinkle in the oatmeal & give it a few whirls with the stick blender. Then, add the honey which has been warmed ever so slightly - just enough to liquify it so that it incorporates into the mixture easier. A few more hits with the stick blender to mix it in really well & pour into the mold.
~Cindy

 

[jdranch]

thanks for the replies

 

[djk17]

I would not add sugar to a recipe with honey in it.

However, I often make honey, oatmeal, and goats' milk soaps.

I use the full liquid amount. I add 1 Tbsp ppo sea salt to half the water, add the honey and oats to it, and blend in the blender. Honey is water-soluble so it will dissolve. The remaining water weight is made up with cubes of frozen goats' milk. Then the liquid with the frozen gm cubes gets plopped back into the freezer until my oils are melted and mostly cooled.

The trick to not overheating is to keep EVERYTHING slow and as cool as possible. So when you add the lye, add a tiny bit at a time and stir into the slushy liquid to form a very weak lye solution, let cool, then add another tiny bit of lye, etc.

cavity moulds will have a faster cool-down than log moulds, obviously.