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I use goat's milk as the liquid and mix the lye in as usual except that the milk is frozen and the container surrounded by ice to keep it cool. Slowly sprinkle the lye which melts the milk. when all the lye is added and well stirred, let it cool to a fairly low temp like 105 or 100. Add to the...

I"ve been making goat's milk soap for the last two years and give it as a gift to new babies. A friend told me his baby had a skin rash that cleared up with the GMS so I'm sending him another batch. I use powdered but mix it into milk and freeze and then use that as the liquid to mix with lye...

This is definitely EO (don't know what mo means) and I had used it a while ago. Do EOs go bad after time? I gave it a quick stir, added the ground oat and honey, stirred and dumped it in the mold. It's in the frig now and we'll see tomorrow when I unmold what it looks like Thanks for the reply

The other day I had the opposite situation where I think the lye solution was weak. But I dumped the whole thing into the crockpot and added a little lye solution. I would think you could do the same adding the coconut oil and cooking in the crockpot for a bit. Use the phenolphthylein to test...

Hi, I'm Carolyn in Albany NY. I have been making soap sporadically for about 2 years and always have unpredictable results! I've made lots of nice soap that I've given as gifts but then I'll go through a spell where things trace to fast and end up lumpy and unattractive. I've done mostly CP but...

Today as I was stick blending I added lavender oil and immediately the batch clumped and went to thick trace. I quickly added the ground oats and honey stirred and had to pour into the mold as it was too thick. I had intended to color half with some mica powder in almond oil but had to ditch...