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Ok... So, IS it possible to make soap out of only fresh frozen goat milk and lye? I attempted the other day, but the lye was WAY off. I'm just wondering if it is indeed possible, or if I'm just wasting my time and ingredients experimenting. I used the soapcalc lye calculator.
I've got the 4-H dairy goat project coming by to make goat milk soap next weekend and I'd like to have a maxed out goat milk soap recipe to go. AKA clear the freezer shelves of goat milk. I'm all for experimenting, but I'm trying not to waste all of my time doing so. I DO have recipes I use that contain multiple oils as well as goat milk, but... I'm trying to use as much goat milk as possible.
My "basic" recipe (pun intended): 3.6 pounds of goat milk to 200 gram lye
I mixed the lye into 13.7 ounces of frozen milk (taken from the 3.6 pounds). Added that to the milk in the crockpot, mixed the heck out of it until it got to trace. It felt like it took forever for it to get to the "pudding" stage. After it hit trace it pretty much separated and never hit the gel stage. I added in 3 oz of castor oil. I cooked it in the crockpot on low for nearly 12 hours (I set a timer for the crockpot to go off, but woke up at 3am with it still on). Oops. I unplugged it and went back to bed. When I got up it was a solid gel floating on about 1/2 inch of liquid. It was still at 10 pH, so I tossed it.
I have figured out that the goat milk is approx. 8% butterfat. The internet said 1 cup of goat milk contains 8 grams of fat. I'm assuming I need to be using the amount of lye for *that* amount of fat then just cook cook cook the water off? Or will this just not work?
Thanks for reading and for any input.
-Jennifer
I've got the 4-H dairy goat project coming by to make goat milk soap next weekend and I'd like to have a maxed out goat milk soap recipe to go. AKA clear the freezer shelves of goat milk. I'm all for experimenting, but I'm trying not to waste all of my time doing so. I DO have recipes I use that contain multiple oils as well as goat milk, but... I'm trying to use as much goat milk as possible.
My "basic" recipe (pun intended): 3.6 pounds of goat milk to 200 gram lye
I mixed the lye into 13.7 ounces of frozen milk (taken from the 3.6 pounds). Added that to the milk in the crockpot, mixed the heck out of it until it got to trace. It felt like it took forever for it to get to the "pudding" stage. After it hit trace it pretty much separated and never hit the gel stage. I added in 3 oz of castor oil. I cooked it in the crockpot on low for nearly 12 hours (I set a timer for the crockpot to go off, but woke up at 3am with it still on). Oops. I unplugged it and went back to bed. When I got up it was a solid gel floating on about 1/2 inch of liquid. It was still at 10 pH, so I tossed it.
I have figured out that the goat milk is approx. 8% butterfat. The internet said 1 cup of goat milk contains 8 grams of fat. I'm assuming I need to be using the amount of lye for *that* amount of fat then just cook cook cook the water off? Or will this just not work?
Thanks for reading and for any input.
-Jennifer