Teach Soap

What would be the benefit to doing room temp soaping? One problem I do find is trying to get my lye and oils close to temp before mixing...any suggestions for that?

My other question is about goats milk, why use it? Would you get the same benefits using powdered and how would you incorporate this into your recipe? Can you use almost any liquid in replace of water with the lye?

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I do a lot of room temp CP and really like it. (Actually, I don't melt my oils at all, but let my hot lye solution melt the oils) After my first 10 batches of so, I never really checked temperatures to make sure they were close. If the containers felt the same temp to my gloved hand, I mixed them.

Goats milk: love it in soap. Makes the soap feel really nice when using it and the milk sugars may help boost the lather a bit. But, regular milk and coconut milk also are nice in soap. I use powdered goats milk most of the time added to my oils and stick blended before adding my lye water. For me this is much easier than dealing with frozen milk and adding lye to it. And yes, you can use all kinds of liquids to replace all or part of the water.

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Linda
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Oils and lye don't have to be at the same exact temp. I go by hand feel. If my oils pot is warm to the touch and so is the lye pitcher, I'm good to go.

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Irena
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Would anything bad happen if they a lot different temps?

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

I always soap cool or warmish and like soapbuddy go by hand touch. Only because it gives me more time to soap at a relatively relaxed pace, otherwise I get flustered and forget things

the only problem (happened to me twice with my last two batches and this is after several years of soapmaking) is stearic acid in palm oil, if you are using it. as I said it never happened to me before but you may end up with tiny stearic bumps / specs if you soap cool. hope this helps