I followed a recipe online. 500ml mp and 1 cup breast milk. Didn’t add essential oils for extra sensitive skin
I understand that you want to do what is best for your little one, they are precious creatures
You added 1 cup breastmilk? That is a lot. I am afraid this soap may start go rancid quickly, if it hasn`t already. You may notice as time passes that the soap will smell a bit strange, and get an unpleasant smell that will develop. But it may also smell fine.
I have seen mommy bloggers that do this kind of thing, they are so exited and post things thay have read and without researching enough on a subject they jump in with both feet and want to share their wonderful news.
The common denominator for them, and for you, is that you all just wants whats best for the baby
But I suspect the end result here, even if you freeze it and take out a small piece and use that up, is that it will go bad no matter what.
The reason is that generally, when making lye based soap from scratch, the liquids that are foods (breast milk, goats milk etc) are added when the lye is still active and kicking so it can start to react with the oils and the liquids in the mix, which prevents them or slows down the natural process. Melt & Pour has already been through this process and therefore there is no lye left to react to the milk, and hence the PH is not basic and strong enough to prevent the milk from spoiling. The more milk added, the faster it will spoil, and the stronger it will smell.
However - you may be lucky and it will work. I am not claiming to have the ultimate and final answer on this matter, and I don`t want to discourage you for trying to do what is best for your baby. But I have worked with Melt and pour since 2000, now only as embeds, but I do know that no matter which brand, it has its positives and negatives, and things it can do and what it can`t do. Preserving milks are unortunately not one of them.
It has a musky smell. Did it go bad?
Breastmilk is food, even though it is a milk, it is considered a food additive. Milk, whether it is breast og cow or goat, it has fats and nutrients that will slowly degrade in an environment that is not strong enough to keep it in a status quo.
edited: quoted the wrong person.