Obsidian
Well-Known Member
Made another batch of goat milk soap today but this time, I added some rhubarb root for color.
I chopped up my fresh root, added a couple small pieces to the lye water and the rest to my warm milk. After steeping for awhile, I strained both liquids and made my soap.
Milk after straining root chunks out, you can see that there is two layers, the stuff on the bottom was a weird gel substance, maybe fiber from the roots?
milk blended into oils
batter after adding lye, should have taken a picture of the lye solution. It was quite dark peachy.
In the mold
separated a bit to blend thicker for this mold, weirdly its a lighter color. Maybe from being cooler?
Hoping that the darker peachy/orangy color is just from the milk heating up and it will lighten as it saponifies.
I chopped up my fresh root, added a couple small pieces to the lye water and the rest to my warm milk. After steeping for awhile, I strained both liquids and made my soap.
Milk after straining root chunks out, you can see that there is two layers, the stuff on the bottom was a weird gel substance, maybe fiber from the roots?
milk blended into oils
batter after adding lye, should have taken a picture of the lye solution. It was quite dark peachy.
In the mold
separated a bit to blend thicker for this mold, weirdly its a lighter color. Maybe from being cooler?
Hoping that the darker peachy/orangy color is just from the milk heating up and it will lighten as it saponifies.