Teach Soap

I just made my first batch of soap with goat milk. It is a 100% olive oil soap. I usually use the lightest color olive oil in my regular soap but for this one I used an oil that was on the green color side. I did this because I added no color or fragrance to the soap. Now. I noticed how yellow the milk lye solution was when AI combined it with oil. If I make my regular soap recipe and use goat milk what is that going to do to colors. I usually use lab colors. Is that yellow color going to combine with my color and not give me the true color I want??

How warm did your milk / lye solution get? I can keep my mixture still quite white so don't have any issues with it affecting my colours.

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Oh gosh. I really don't remember but it seems like it might have been around 120 degrees. It was pretty yellow and creamy. The soap I made doesn't seem to be yellow. It seems like it was kind of yellow as I combined the lye and oil.

Milk has natural proteins and sugars which can affect the final color. That might make it harder to get true colors from Lab Colors. I don't use any colors in my goat's milk soap as my customers prefer nothing else added to my batch.

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Irena
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I think I am going the no color approach. Goat Milk Lavender.

Not much you can do about the oil color you used but if it's not dark it shouldn't be bad. I just made a batch with coconut milk subbed for all the water and found the freezing route worked great. (Froze the coconut milk until slushy then slowly added the lye to it. I put the lye pitcher into a larger pitcher containing ice.) Good luck with your soap!

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Linda

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My goats milk soap is usually anywhere from an ivory/cream color to a light tan after gelling.

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Linda
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When I use goats milk powder I tend not to get the cream\golden color.

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Susie
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