Silk in soap

[ctay122]

I am wondering if anyone has added raw silk fabric to soap before. I have a recipe that as a variation, suggests you add a 6" sq of fine undyed silk to the lye water. This sounds somewhat interesting to me...

 

[nattynoo]

I use tussah silk fibres but not silk fabric.
I question how much silk protein in actually left in processed silk fabric.

'tussah' means wild - unprocessed fibres.

 

[ctay122]

I've seen liquid silk offered from some soapmaking suppliers but never thought about using actual silk fabric.

 

[soapbuddy]

I have. I only used about 2" square and cut it into thin strips. Make sure that the strips are completely wet before you add lye to the water. Also make sure that it's raw silk and it has no sizing finish or color.

 

[soap25]

silk

Hi!

It works fine. Ad the fabric into the water first and the lye then. If the lye water cools down to much, the silk does not dissolve completly. Use a filter, just in case...

I take a good handful of cut silk per batch (about 1kg oils). Silk turns the cured soap slightly jellow.