I’ve been wanting to make goat milk based soap for over a year now. Especially goat milk soap, but since I don’t have any of that I decided to make milk soap using “half & half” instead.
I do have goat milk powder and thought of just adding water to it. But Casey Makela author of Milk-Based Soaps doesn’t recommend goat milk powder at all, she said all the fat has been removed so it would not be good for soapmaking. But I have used goat milk powder in one of my soaps and find it to be just as nice and creamy. Although Makela’s book was informative, it seem to stretch out this process more then necessary! And also make you NOT want to make any milk based soap ever.
Here is the milk & cream soaps. Some say it smells more like sweet oatmeal. I think that smell may fade in 3-4 weeks time when it’s done curing. I can’t wait to give this soap a try! I can feel how creamy and rich it is while I was cutting it up.
Now that I’ve successfully made my first batch of “milk soap” it wasn’t much different then regular CP soaping. Well there are some differences, but not much.
Updated: The sweet smell is still there. Something I can’t describe, but like sweet cookies. I have given this soap the shower test and it’s great! Very nice and creamy bar of soap. Thick and hard bard too. I think it will last a long time in the shower. Just keep it dry in a nice soap dish.
