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Goat Milk Soap Recipe #1
This size recipe can be mixed with the electric mixer. The recipe can be doubled and mixed by hand with a wooden paddle. Have ready an electric mixer and 2 large bowls, stainless or glass (not plastic). Mold: Can use styrofoam or an old cake pan. Have a piece of cloth ready to put on top of the soap and a lid to put on top of the cloth. Can be wrapped with a blanket or towels for insulation. (note from Steve: I use glass casserole dishes well greased with vaseline. Don't try to grease with oil, as it will saponify! Clear plastic candy molds make nice little soaps, too.) Fat: 1.5 lb melted fat (tallow, lard, tallow/lard mixture. Lard can be purchased in 1lb boxes.) Clarified fat, mixed pork and beef. If the fat has burned particles in it or is rancid, it can be clarified by boiling it up in a large pan with about a quart of water and then cooling it and scooping the clean fat off the top. The impurities settle to the bottom in the water. Measure 1/2 can lye (6.5 ounces). Handle with great care. Pour into a paper cup. Make sure the lid is securely back on the lye can. Put 3 cups goat milk in stainless steel mixer bowl. Pour the lye in slowly, running the mixer on low. It will get hot and the milk turns golden as the chemical reaction takes place. Cool until about 850F. May use dairy thermometer. 2 tsp Borax 1 cup baby oatmeal 2 ounces glycerin This can be stirred in while the lye and milk mixture is cooling. It is not necessary to stir the whole time. Watch the temperature of 1.5 pounds of fat. Fat should also be at about 85 or 900F. If you have to heat it to melt, make sure it has cooled again. Run the mixer on low for about 15 minutes, then turn off and let soap rest 5 minutes; run 5 minutes and rest 5 minutes. Repeat this and watch closely because soap will suddenly take consistency and must be poured into the mold. Pour when ready; smooth top surface and keep mold at even temperature for about 24 hours. Cloth can then be peeled off and bars can be cut with a serrated knife or scored and broken. Aging: Age the soap for at least a month, unwrapped. It is better if it ages 2 or 3 months. Failures sometimes occur. Sometimes melting the soap on a very low heat and stirring it some more is all that is necessary to make it set. A few suggestions: I always double the recipe so that I can use the whole can of lye and I can also buy 3 pound block of lard. I mix the lye and milk. Then I put in the block of lard and stir until it has melted. I powder regular oatmeal in the blender. I add it some baking soda and glycerin to the mixture. I stir about 5 or 10 minutes. I stick my thermometer in. It is usually about 1200F. I go about my business for an hour or so and then come back. When it is around 900F I stir for 15 minutes, rest 5, stir 5 and so on. When the spoon can stand up in the middle of the bowl by itself I start spooning it in the molds. Basic Goat Milk and Honey Soap #2 13 cups lard or rendered fat (6.5 pounds) 1 can caustic soda 1/2 cup honey 4 cups goat milk 1 cup hot water Into a large stainless steel or enamel container, dissolve the honey into the hot water. Add the 4 cups goat milk, stir to mix well and slowly add the lye to the milk/honey mixture. This will get very hot. Let it set until it cools down to 750F. This could take an hour or more. When the lye mixture reaches 750F, warm the lard to 850F and pour in a slow steady stream into the lye/milk mixture. Stir constantly until the mixture reaches the consistency of honey. This will take 20 or 30 minutes. When thick as honey pour into prepared molds. Allow to set for 24 to 48 hours. Unmold and cut into bars. Air-dry the soap for 4-5 weeks to cure it. Oatmeal & Honey Goat Milk Soap #3 6 cups goat milk 4 cups lard (2 pounds) 2/3 can Red Devil brand lye 2 cups dry oatmeal (run through the blender) 1/2 cup honey Carefully mix the milk and lye in a stainless container. Allow to cool to 850F. Stir in the refined oatmeal and honey. Mix well. Warm lard to 85 degrees and slowly add to milk mixture. Mix for 15 minutes, let stand 5 minutes. Mix again for 5 minutes. Watch closely as soap takes shape suddenly. When thick like honey pour into prepared molds. Let set 24-48 hours until set. Cut into bars and air cure for 3 to 4 weeks. I made the above one over the weekend. I used my regular recipe (doubled) and added about 3/4 cup of honey. I did it the way I normally do. I left it to set and checked on it about every 15 minutes. The last time I checked it it had almost hardened in the bowl. It did do okay though and I managed to pour it into a large pan. Rhonda's Goat Milk Soap Recipe! Hello! Here is a great recipe for goat milk soap...works every time! 42 oz olive oil 28 oz coconut oil 18 oz palm oil 12.7 oz caustic soda 33 oz goat milk (or buttermilk can be used too ) 1 cup ground oatmeal 4 Tbsp. raw honey fats and oil temp: 920F lye/milk temp: 920F cure for 4-6 weeks Even with no FO added, this soap still smells like honey and oatmeal 4 weeks later. Enjoy! Soap XI -- Goat Milk Soap - Elaine White - copyrighted (by measurements, not weight) 1 cup lard, melted 1 cup coconut oil, melted 1 cup goat (or other) milk 1/4 cup caustic soda granules (not flakes or crystals from other sources) 1/4 cup water Dissolve the lye in the water. Ingredients near 110 to 1200F. Add the lye/water to the fat. Stir in the milk. Tracing time about 1 hour 15 minutes. Leave in molds 2 days Place in freezer 3 hours Remove soap from molds, age 3 weeks. Fat to Lye temperature chart: Beef tallow = 1300F Lye = 950F Pure Lard = 850F Lye = 750F 1/2 Beef & 1/2 Lard = 110 degrees Lye = 850F HAND-MILLED SOAP Christmas Spice Bars 4 tsp (4g) ground ginger 1 TBS (6g) ground cinnamon 4 TBS (28g) fresh grated orange peel 10 drops each of cinnamon and neroli fragrance or essential oils 1-1/2 pounds (680g) grated Basic Soap 18 oz (510g) water Melt grated Basic Soap and combine with water as per instructions on the Hand-Milled Soap page. Combine the first 3 ingredients and add to the melted soap. Mix well and then stir in the scents. Mix thoroughly and pour into prepared molds. Finish as per instructions on the Hand-Milled Soap page. Due to the spices added, soap will have a medium brown color. Handmade Oatmeal Soaps Sugar Plum Sundries - copyrighted We have all seen the oatmeal soaps in the store that cost a fortune. Here's how to make your own. Uou can also add other dried material such as cornmeal or pumice for varying abrasive effects. 10oz palm 4oz coconut oil 2oz olive oil 1/4cup regular oatmeal, run through the blender 2oz lye 1 cup distilled water optional scent Mix lye and water and set aside to cool. Melt palm oil and coconut oil together and set aside to cool. In a blender or food processor, mix the olive oil and oatmeal. When the lye reaches 1000F and the fats are 1200F pour lye into fats and stir until it traces. Add the oatmeal mixture, and stir until well mixed. pour the soap into the molds. Allow to sit for 48 hours. Unmold and cut if needed. allow to age for 3 weeks. LAUNDRY SOAP Soap I -- Pure Soap Elaine White This is the only recipe I've discovered that remains scent-free without adding fragrance to the recipe. This soap is a bit too harsh for bath soap, but great for cleaning, washing dishes, delicate laundry, etc. Great lather and no fragrance. 16 oz coconut oil 2.8 oz lye 1 cup water (8 fluid ounces) Fat and lye/water temperature about 1200F Estimated tracing time: 1 1/2 hours Time in molds: 48 hours Age: 3 weeks Tony's No Fail (and no weigh) Soap Recipe 2 cans (3 lb) veggie shortening 1 can (12 0z) lye 2 cups water Mix lye and water in enamel pan, OUTSIDE, set aside to cool. Melt shortening, set aside to cool. When both are "hot to the touch (on the outside of the pan) pour lye into shortening. Stir until consistency of mashed potatoes. Pour into prepared mold and let set 24 hours, covered. Uncover, poke it and see if it's firm. If it is, turn it out on newspapers and cut it into bars. Put them someplace safe and let cure for 2-3 weeks, minimum. If its not firm, cover and let sit for another 24 hours, then turn out and cut. MOLD: my favorite is a cardboard box lined with a trash bag. I usually get the ones that soft drinks or beer are shipped in because they're the perfect size for this batch. YIELD: around 24 bars, usually. CONVERTING TO WASHING POWDER: Let it cure out for about a month minimum. Grate it up real fine and there it is. I use around 1/2 of one of those disposable scoops from the commercial detergents. I also add a little dry or liquid bleach and a little borax to help with whitening and odor control. Grandma Herald's Laundry Soap Flakes 1 quart cold water 12 ounce sodium hydroxide 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup borax 2 quarts washed strained grease 1 cup Ammonia scent Pour water in earthenware jar. Pour in lye and stir with wooden stick. Let stand till cold (will take around an hour). Put sugar and borax into an earthenware or enamel vessel and stir well. Pour warm grease into borax mixture and stir well. Add ammonia and stir. Add cooled lye solution to grease mixture. Stir until mixture thickens to fudge consistency. Pour into a mold and let stand overnight. (Use a paper box lined with waxed paper). The soap hardens in a few days. Grate the soap finely into soap flakes and use. Washing fat drippings: Put fat in a large pan with 2 times the amount of water and one sliced potato, washed but not peeled. Boil hard for 30 minutes and strain into another pan. Cool for 24 hours. Cut fat off the top, hold under faucet to wash off scum which forms at the bottom. The fat is now clean and free of salt. Favorite scents: Sassafras, wintergreen, pine. Vegetable dye can be used to color the soap. Laundry Cleaner and Fabric Softener 1 cup soap flakes 1/2 cup borax 1/2 cup vinegar, in rinse cycle You may have to fiddle around with the amounts to fit your machine and type of laundry. This should cut down on rashes from detergent. Fabric softeners are just waxes that melt in the dryer, and evidently they are bad for fabrics, cottons especially (I can't stand the little oily spots they leave all over t-shirts and cotton knits). Bleach your whites about once a month with 1-1/2 c. chlorine bleach, instead of 1/2 c. every wash. Liquid Laundry Soap 2 1/2 gallons distilled water 1 sodium hydroxide, can 7 cups lard, melted 1 cup Ammonia 2 cups borax, or Borateem 3 cups wisk or similar liquid detergent booster Mix in 5 gallon crock or plastic bucket. Add enough water to fill pail. Stir a few minutes till reaches consistency of chicken gravy. Stir a couple times a day until it thickens. It will get like thick lotion and turn white. You can add 1/4 c liquid bluing if you like. Amount to use depends on type of water and size of load (no better directions given). Source: Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Vol 79, No 3: LIQUID SOAP Handmade Liquid Soap - Sugar Plum Sundries - copyrighted In the old days, people made soap using the lye they had leached from wood ashes. This was a long and arduous project, and resulted in a paste-like soap. The reason for the paste consistency was the fact that the lye was Potassium Hydroxide rather than Sodium Hydroxide. Today, you can purchase either variety. The more Potash (Potassium Hydroxide, or KOH) you use, the softer the soap, if you increase the amount of Sodium Hydroxide, your soap will be harder. WARNING! you cannot replace NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) with KOH in a 1 to 1 swap. It requires approx. 1.4 times as much KOH as NaOH. So, without further ado, here is the recipe 12oz Palm Oil 4oz coconut oil 3.5oz POTASSIUM hydroxide 1 cup water Mix potash lye and water, set aside to cool. melt oils and cool. With lye at 950F and oils at 1150F combine and stir. This is a much warmer reaction than the NaOH soap. You will notice it if you use a big gulp cup and are holding it in your hand. It takes a little longer to trace, about 45-50 minutes. The trace happens suddenly. You can leave this soap in the cup to age if you like, since you will be mixing it with water later (maybe) Age for 2 weeks. If you wish, you may now thin it to a usable consistency. Add water a little at a time, and mix well. A blender works well for this. When you have the thickness you like, Add whatever fragrance you wish to use. This is another good thing about liquid soap, the essential oils need never come in contact with the lye, so the fragrance stays pure. Store it in a bottle or pump jar, and enjoy. Liquid Soap 1 ounce avocado oil 4 ounces coconut oil 11 ounces soybean oil 3.1 ounces lye 8 ounces water Mix as usual per basic instructions Combine water and lye, then added to melted fats. Stir until trace . Allow to sit for a few days until pH tests low. Then slowly stir in extra water to create a liquid soap. Liquid Soap Grate 2 oz (56.7g) of Basic Soap recipe under Bath and Body Bars 8 oz (227g) water Scent or color as desired Gently heat grated soap and water in saucepan. Stir gently until melted. Mix in any additives. Check consistency in a cool water bath. Correct thickness by adding water, thicken by adding more grated soap. Pour into container. Shake every few days to keep smooth. SHAMPOO Soap II -- Pure Soap Mink Oil Shampoo Elaine White 16 oz weight coconut oil 1/2 cup mink oil or (4 T. Castor oil) 2.9 oz lye 1 cup water (8 fluid oz.) Oil room temperature. Mix and use lye when the water turns clear. Put all ingredients in the blender. Follow the instructions for "Blender Soap" Don't let this soap trace. Process until the mixture is smooth (no oil streaks) and pour it into molds. Leave in molds 2 days Freeze soap 3 hours to release it from the molds. Age 3 weeks. SOAP BALLS Soap balls is a nifty way to get rid of extra soap that won't fill an individual mold or get rid of all those little scrap pieces left over from the shower. There are two easy ways to do this: Method One - For Scraps: Gather together like colors of soap (or you'll end up with an ugly colored ball). Place scraps in a bowl. If they are very small - great, no further work needed. If not, either break them up with a knife or grate the pieces with a vegetable grater. Sprinkle pieces with warm water; let sit 15 minutes to soften. Gather up a handful and squeeze into a ball shape. It will take from two days to two weeks to completely cure in a warm, dry area. Reshape every two days to maintain a round shape. Don't worry about irregularities; they will lend interest to your soap. Method Two - Balls From New Soap: Select your favorite Hand-Milled Soap recipe, but instead of pouring it into individual molds, pour the soap into one large one mold. Place everything in the freezer until it can be cut into blocks and hold its shape. Grate the blocks and allow to dry in a bowl up to a week. While still moist, gather up a handful and squeeze into ball shapes. It will take from two days to two weeks to completely dry in a warm, dry area. Reshape every two days to maintain a round shape. Again, irregularities will make your soap interesting Contributors' websites where available: Countryman's Rustic Cuts Soapworks Elaine White's Lather Land Sugar Plum Sundries Tony O'Seland's Cedar Wolf Productions Rainbow Meadow ...Go Back to Recipes Page 1 |