I'm excited! I read on a different forum about a soaper making soap using breast milk as gifts for the mothers. I finally coerced my friend into giving up some old milk that she had in the freezer from May. She wouldn't be feeding it to her baby, so why waste it?? I had to thaw it out in the fridge overnight to weigh it, but it's back in the freezer now with .15 oz of distiller water to make up the needed difference. I'm going to make a very simple highly conditioning bar with 85% lard, 15% Shea and 5% castor. I'll add the sodium citrate to cut down on scum, but I'm going to leave out the usual sodium lactate and tussah silk. I want this to be as plain and mild as possible. I am very stoked about seeing how this turns out. I'll do it this weekend and give it an extra long cure. I'll probably give the batch to her around Valentine's Day. By then she will have totally forgotten about it, and hopefully gotten over the "ick" factor. I don't get Americans and their weird phobias, it's OK to have a see through blouse on and no bra, but when it comes to breasts and nursing OH MY GOSH!! Put those things away!! There are children present!! It's OK to have sex with strangers, but not to nurse another person's child: ewwww! Body fluids!!
OK. I'm done now. Can't wait to get soaping this weekend and see how this turns out. I may offer it as a free or very low-cost service to moms looking for a unique way to bond with their children when I start selling. (A million years down the road.)
