Making Goats Milk Soap

The cold process soap making recipe consists of water, lye and oils. Combined together the chemical process is called saponification. The final product has no lye in it and is super-fatted with skin nourishing oils. 

How to make cold process soap

 The first thing your going to want to do is gather your materials and equipment.

You will need:

Equipment

1.Digital scale for measuring everything, accuracy is a must for success of soap

 2. Safety goggles & rubber gloves to protect your hands and eyes from the lye and caustic soap

3. Large pot , will be used to melt down the oils. This is what will be known as your soap pot

4. A pitcher or a smaller pot for the lye solution

5. Two stainless steel spoons, one for oils and the other for the lye solution

6. Two accurate Thermometers, one for each pot

7. Stick blender, this will be used to blend the oil and lye mixture together to begin the saponification process

8. Soap mold to pour your soap into, anything that is leak proof.

9. A few extra spoons, rubber spatulas, whisks

10. measuring cups to measure and weigh out oils

11. freezer paper to line your mold unless its a silicone mold

12. Blankets to insulate

I will share with you a basic soap recipe that is easy to make:

Materials
Olive oil                    17 oz

Coconut oil - 76      17 oz

Palm oil                    8 oz

Lye                           6.5 oz

Goats milk (slushy/frozen)      16 oz

Grapefruit seed extract     1 oz

Essential oil/fragrance oil    2 oz

First prepare your oils weighing them out on your scale and put them into your soap pot on the stove.  Then take your slushy goats milk out of the freezer and put it in the lye pitcher/pot.  I like to  use a pot so I can set it in my sink in an ice bath, that way it doesn't over heat and scald the milk.  For the next part you want to make sure you have your gloves on and your safety glasses.  Weigh out the lye, then slowly add a little bit at a time to your slushy goats milk. Stirring constantly.  The lye mixture will start to turn a light yellowish color and look creamy.

You want to make sure the lye is all dissolved.   In the mean time have your oils melting on low on the stove.  Watch the temperature of the oils and the lye mixture closely.   The goal is to bring the temp of the oils up to 100 while bringing the temp of the lye mixture down to 100.  I like to combine my oils and lye at  a little bit higher of a temp but you don't need to.  The temps have to be with in 5 degrees of each other in order for them to combine.  Once the temps are close, you can slowly add your lye mixture into your oils.  Use your stick blender to combine the two mixtures, and now the saponification process begins.

 Continue mixing until it starts to come to a light trace. Light trace is when a small amount of the the soap is drizzled across the top of the main  surface leaving a faint pattern before sinking back into the mixture.  

At this point you want to add your grapefruit seed extract, essential/fragrance oil, and any other additives you might want.  Once it is all blended thoroughly, pour the soap into your chosen mold.  Then cover it ( I use freezer paper ) and wrap it in blankets to insulate it.  Leave it for 24 hrs and when you go back you can take the soap out of the mold, cut it and let it cure for about 4 weeks.  

Just made this one yesterday, it is a goats milk soap with  a Blend of Patchouli, Cinnamon, and Cedarwood 

Note : You can make this recipe with water if you don't have goats milk. Make sure the water is distilled , there is no need to have it slushy, you wont need the grapefruit seed extract.