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I've been making soap for a little over a year now, but hadn't attempted goat's milk soap until my wife mentioned it could be good for our daughter's eczema. So, lo and behold, I found a carton of the stuff at a grocery store walking distance from home.
I had also wanted to enter one of the monthly challenges, but still don't have the requisite 50 forum posts. So I decided to attempt June's "peacock swirl" technique for this one. It was a bit of a disaster.
The soap was simple enough: basic recipe but 1:1 lye:water ratio so that I could add gobs of milk as it was emulsifying. But I forgot that I was going to take half the soap and pour it and then add oatmeal to the other half (on top), so things got all twisted and then I had a thick glob to work with for the swirl. I ended up with very fat peacocks, if you can even tell they're there. And the soap was so thick that the skewer lines were more like big indentations.
In the end, I ended up with... soap. Hopefully good soap.
I had also wanted to enter one of the monthly challenges, but still don't have the requisite 50 forum posts. So I decided to attempt June's "peacock swirl" technique for this one. It was a bit of a disaster.
The soap was simple enough: basic recipe but 1:1 lye:water ratio so that I could add gobs of milk as it was emulsifying. But I forgot that I was going to take half the soap and pour it and then add oatmeal to the other half (on top), so things got all twisted and then I had a thick glob to work with for the swirl. I ended up with very fat peacocks, if you can even tell they're there. And the soap was so thick that the skewer lines were more like big indentations.
In the end, I ended up with... soap. Hopefully good soap.
