Teach Soap

Hi all -

I played around a little bit with some heavy creams, soy milks and coconut milks in some soaps this fall. I tried different %s between 100% of liquids and 50% of liquids when dissolving the lye. The soaps smelled a little (unpleasantly) milky to my nose when I poured, but after a few weeks, the smell was really nice and I didn't notice the milk smell any more.

However, when I smelled some of the soaps still on my shelves last weekend, especially the one using 100% cream, the soap smelled pretty sour. I used probably 5% lye discount on each of these soaps.

Has anyone noticed this smell in their soaps? Might I have burned the milk when I was mixing it with the lye (the mixture did turn a bit orange, depending on the milks and percentages when I was making the soap)? Did I use too high % of milk in my recipes? Or maybe am I just over-sensitive to that milk smell?

Any thoughts you all might have would be awesome!

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Chrissy

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Cream made from cow's milk contains butyric acid. That's most likely what you are smelling since you used 100% cream. I would use the cream at a much smaller %.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks, Irena! I do not notice the sour smell in the coconut milk soap, nor in the one with cow's cream that is at a lower %. Appreciate the knowledge!

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Chrissy

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

When I use cream, I just replace 2 or 3 ounces of my water with it. I haven't had any problems yet. *knock on wood*

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