Evap. Goat's milk

[Noreen Moore]

Read and read but did not read if adding the water to my evaporated milk before freezing it into cubes will prevent the orange/brown discoloration from evap. goat's milk. Soap Queen video shows her dissolving the lye over the milk cubes and she has the container also sitting in an ice water bath. I only bought the one can as I didn't know the powdered goat milk can be added to the oils! (And half the price!) Thoughts?

 

[jcandleattic]

Read and read but did not read if adding the water to my evaporated milk before freezing it into cubes will prevent the orange/brown discoloration from evap. goat's milk. Soap Queen video shows her dissolving the lye over the milk cubes and she has the container also sitting in an ice water bath. I only bought the one can as I didn't know the powdered goat milk can be added to the oils! (And half the price!) Thoughts?

You will only get the orange/brown discoloration if you burn or scorch your milk. It has nothing to do with the type of milk it is.

Do a search on the "split method". That's what most people do when using evap milk or powdered milks. There will be tons of posts that come up.

 

[shunt2011]

I use the canned goats milk. I mix my lye with an equal amount of water and then add the milk to my oils. My soaps never scorch, though it turns a bit orange when the lye is added. Freezing the milk is too much of a hassle for me.

 

[Noreen Moore]

@jcandleattic wow! Much more info searching the 50/50 split! Looks like I don't necessarily have to reconstitute the milk either.

 

[jcandleattic]

@jcandleattic wow! Much more info searching the 50/50 split! Looks like I don't necessarily have to reconstitute the milk either.

nope.
It took me YEARS (literally) to find out that I could do a 50/50 split when making milk soaps (or even just regular soaps with my 50/50 masterbatch) I've been soaping for 17 years, and put 2+2 together about the split method about 2.5 years ago. LOL

 

[amd]

Much more info searching the 50/50 split!

It's a much easier way to make milk soaps - I'm with Shunt and JCA, messing with frozen anything and lye is just too fiddly. Even as a soapmaker with almost 2 years experience when I tried my first milk soaps, messing with ice cubes and lye was frustrating and my first attempts failed spectacularly. I switched to using a combination of water and very cold milk in my lye solution (which still wasn't great, those clumpy bits of saponified fats grossed me out) and then I came to this forum and learned that ... omg I can put the milk in my oils??!! Game.changer. I haven't looked back, and honestly I can't tell the difference between soaps made with the split method and soaps made with 100% milk.