Teach Soap

If I use goats milk powder would it turn my soap brown like the liquid milk does.. I cannot for the life of me get my goats milk to turn out a light color..

Donna

The sugars in it can still carmelize to a nice orange but adding once it hits trace, or at least emulsification, I've never had it be worse than light orange. The cooler the soaping temperature the more likely the discoloration will be light. Have you tried freezing the liquid milk before using it as liquid for your lye solution?

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Linda

I learn so much when I can't leave well enough alone!

Due to the natural sugars, even if you freeze the soap, it will end up a tan color.

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

Crickey Donna don't get me started on goats milk ha ha. Have had a bit of a traumatic time with. Both that and honey in batches. Mine smell of cookies and are dark in colour.

I use frozen goat's milk in all my soaps and don't have a problem with dark soaps. Even my white soaps are goat's milk...

I've not yet tried powder in my soaps.

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The Soapinatrix! *whip-crack*
- Posting the trials and tribulations of my Soaping Journey!

Even my hot process goat's milk powder soap is only light tan. I must develop the patience to freeze my goat's milk then very slowly add the lye. Patience isn't a virtue I possess in abundance!

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Linda

I learn so much when I can't leave well enough alone!

I made my first gm soap this past weekend. I used evaporated and stirred 1/2 the measurement of water into the lye, after it had cooled I added in the evaporated gm (the rest of the water measurement in gm) a little at a time. It smelled like really strong dog urine......yuck, but my soap turned out whitish colored.

I've read that if you want to used powdered gm, you can mix it with just enough of your measured water to get a paste and stir it in at trace. I'm sure there are plenty of different ways to do it.

I'm a newbie, so still learning, too....


Shelia

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Shelia
Newbie still learning.....

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

The nasty smell is normal. Gross isn't it? I found it the worst when I cut the soap 2 days later!

And yes, ALWAYS mix your lye into your water! Water into lye can cause a corrosive volcano!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

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Shelia
Newbie still learning.....

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts