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Omg, thank you so much, IrishLass!! You're amazing! I just picked up one of the bars and compared the smell of one of the brown spots vs the rest of the bar and the brown spots definitely smell stronger of FO. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out if its the milk, the oils, not enough...

Hey, thanks for the reply! So I don’t personally think the white specs are soda ash, as they’re visible after we cut (so inside the bars). I’m thinking that we didn’t properly mix the TD in oil before adding it. The spots are definitely brown - they smell like FO much stronger in those spots...

Hy, everyone! Thanks so much for your suggestions! As a lot of you said, you freeze the milk prior to adding the lye - that's exactly what I do. I usually freeze it around 24 hours prior and add the lye about 1/4 at a time. I just can't for the life of me figure out what those brown spots are...

Greetings, all! I've made around 5 batches of 100% goat's milk soap (no water), and have discovered that around 1/4 of my bars have some brown spots on them. According to Reddit, they don't think it's DOS, and I'm not convinced it is either since all of my oils are only 2 months old and don't...

Hello all! Long-time lurker here - I love the community on this site! I have two batches of goat's milk soap curing right now (I think one is at 3 weeks and the other is at 4). I've noticed that about 9 out of the 20 bars have some brown spots (maybe DOS?), and I can't for the life of me figure...