Oh I see artemis, thanks!
Then I guess if I use real milk (rather than powdered) I guess I really need to do cold process soap rather than hot process?
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I do leap before I look quite often not_ally. :)
Thanks! The problem is I wasn't quite following it. I follow just substitute the water our for the milk in. Then add the lye to that. Which is what I did. But where I get lost is the "(to be on the safe side, freeze the milk into ice cubes...
Tried to add some coconut milk to my soap (several different oil). I tried to wait until trace and after it had cooled down some. But see below for the results. The smell is not bad, but a definite "cooked" smell. So I'm pretty sure the coconut oil cooked and turned brown. I'm assuming the...
Sorry, not sure what the right forum is for this, apologies if I got it wrong. But I was just curious if anyone has any thoughts on "Zote" soap? Made in Mexico for many years, apparently quite popular. Its mainly a laundry soap, but its hard, I believe they make it using lye and various oils...
Hmmm, let me ask my question a different way. You mentioned SAP value, which it sounds like determines how much lye per amount of oil or fat. So my question is this - where can I find the SAP values for goat milk fat and coconut milk fat? I did a quick google search and the coconut one and...
Thanks AliOop. Yea, I think I follow all that from the article. I think I'm indeed going to just sub out the milk for the water, and use regular oils. But my real question is how to figure out how much lye to add if you want to hit an exact superfat number. For cow milk its easy, right there...
I keep reading/hearing that water is only really used to "introduce" the lye to the oils, its not needed for saponification to take place. So I am curious, what if you pour the dry lye into the oil directly, although at a very, very slow rate, while stirring/mixing the whole time?
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Thank you Booker and AliOop!
That link you posted was interesting AliOop. But one thing it didn't cover is how much (lye) you'd need if you replaced some/all of the water/oil in the recipe with milk (or other dairy products). Let's say you were making a soap using X oil, wanted it to be 0%...
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Just curious - can you use whole milk for the oil? Lots of fat in whole milk, but maybe its not an "oil" so that won't work.
If you cannot, can you substitute out whole milk for 100% of the water in the recipe? How will that turn out?
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Oh shoot. I see, that negative means it will be a soft bar. BUT, I've made 100% flax soap before, and did NOT end up with that slime bar - a soft bar for sure, but it was still a normal (although soft) bar of soap. There is something I am doing wrong to make it that gel/slime no matter how...