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I am starting to experiment with gelling goat milk soaps. This is a goat milk and vanilla recipe using benzoin resinoid as the only additive. I used a heating pad on low for about 3-4 hours, and had what looks like a successful gel. Pictures are partway through and coming out of gel phase. I...

I'm at it again! I tried 3 colors today and was pretty excited at the trace I achieved for the most part. I mixed French green clay with eucalyptus EO and red Moroccan clay with lavender EO. I soaped at a 30% lye concentration and split the batter into three more or less equal parts when I...

I've been trying to imagine what people are talking about when they say their soap volcanoed. I think I know now. I've made a total of 8 or 10 batches of soap, most of them in a 4" mold. I started off trying not to gel my soaps because I use fresh goat milk in all of them, but after a lot of...

Does anyone have a good soap recipe for use with hard water? I have a friend with very hard water and she says that her skin feels shrink-wrapped after a shower. Is there a good soap recipe to help with that tight-skin feeling due to hard water?

Can I mix lye with milk hours ahead of soapmaking? I've read that some people mix their lye soloutuon far enough ahead for it to come to room temperature before using it, and I'm wondering if that will work with milk as the liquid. Whenever I've mixed lye with milk, the resulting solution...

I made my first batch of soap using a CP beginner kit from Brambleberry. The Brambleberry tutorials I watched before hand showed her using glass Pyrex type containers for mixing lye, so I bought a dedicated glass Pyrex for that purpose. When I joined this forum, shortly after making my first...

I just finished batch number three in my 4" mold. It's orange/lavender, using 100% goat milk, 36% goat tallow and EOs. I stick blended a lot less than my first batches and it came to trace in a much slower amount of time, though it did firm up fast when I separated it for essential oil/coloring...

This goat milk soap is just over 3 weeks into curing. About a week ago I noticed this white powdery-looking stuff on it. It has been curing in the shop where it stays pretty cool (40ish degrees F) but did get below freezing for a few days during our recent cold spell. I have a cotton rag over...

This is experimental batch number two. My mom was looking for a bar of chocolate peppermint soap, so after a relatively successful first attempt at making cold process soap, I decided to tweak a recipe and make goat tallow milk chocolate peppermint soap for her. I read that you can substitute...

I have two cold process batches of soap under my belt, and I must say, my processes have been much different than the people with experience that I've studied on Brambleberry and YouTube! I have spent way too much time the past few days reading through posts here, trying to learn answers to the...

Hello, I'm Clare, wife to my one and only, mother of 8, homemaker, homeschooler, homesteader, homebody and brand new to soapmaking. I want to learn how to make all natural soaps featuring as many ingredients as we can produce ourselves, including goat and sheep products. I'm hoping this is a...