Triple milk soaps from last market!

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rainycityjen

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These are old soaps using my favorite recipe of the past year. I usually have trouble with my edges getting ashy and crumbly, and I'm an impatient un-molder. These soaps have a lovely smooth semi-opacity with no ash, and unmold beautifully with sodium lactate. Like most milk soaps they have wonderful creamy lather. The only thing is my micas/clays tend to become muted, because of the milk. Not a problem!

Kind of a simple formula though-
32% OO
25% PO
30% CO (not an issue for me)
8% Castor
5% Avocado

7% SF
33% lye concentration

For water sub 4 parts frozen goat milk to 1 part hydrated coconut milk powder to 1 part whole cow milk. Gradually mix in lye while in ice bath.

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pink = grapefruit FO, cream on left = gardenia FO, cream in middle = citrus EO, brown on bottom = cedar & saffron FO

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Grapefruit and green tea after unmolding. I love a sharp edge.
 
I actually like the muted colors a lot. I guess it may come from some marketing conditioning of sorts but I don't care. As long as a soap feels nice, I'm a happy camper.
 
Those are fantastic looking - the muted colors remind me of milk glass. I would not be able to resist running my finger across the sharp edge every time I saw them.
 
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