Teach Soap

I recently made goat's milk CP. I froze the milk then thawed it as the lye was added . I thought that I had fully dissolved the lye in the milk but when I poured it into the oils there were a few crystals of something in the bottom of the pitcher. I caught a couple of them but am not sure if any escaped into the oils. I don't know if it was lye or frozen milk. The soap went through the process fine and it looks and smells great except for a few little tan spots in each bar. They are solid. What do I do......test it, pitch it, rebatch it? thanks so much for your thoughts.

Check the dark spots for zap. If they don't zap the soap should be ok. If they do, you can always rebatch.

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Linda
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Irena
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Could it have been something in the GM? The man we got our GM from said it might need filtering. It was fine until just before mixing with the oils. I stirred and found some soft lumps that were kinda of tan. Plucked them out before mixing and everything was fine. Hope your soap isn't lye heavy. Good luck!

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Linda

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

Lemme ask you this - was your goat milk ever frozen? Or kept in the fridge solely? A lot people don't realize, but when you freeze GM, since it is only kinda sorta mostly naturally homogenized, it does, can and will separate! Also...I have noticed...once you freeze it you NEVER get it back to it's normal "milky state" - it always has thick chunks and lumps and bumps of butterfat in it! You can shake up refrigerate milk if it separates but you just can't change that frozen milk back to what it was when it was fresh...

I admittedly don't know a ton about soap making yet, but I DO know my milk LOL I always strain my GM before I soap with it OR when I did the "add lye to frozen milk" experiment I strained it as I poured it into the oils...because I HATE HATE HATE drinking GM that has been frozen due to the lumps....I won't leave those lumps in anything (except bottles for baby goats) but stuff for me, I make sure to get the lumps and bumps out

Anyways -I am betting if your milk was frozen then the soft lumps were the butterfat in the milk that had already reacted to the lye or just were still soft fatty lumps - I have tried everything in past years to make frozen milk have a palatable texture for drinking and STILL find those fat lumps in it...just saying...tossing out the little that I know and hoping it applies for you

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Yes, my goat's milk was frozen. Hopefully this is the answer and not being lye heavy. I'm waiting for my delivery from BB with ph strips so I can test it. I just can't bring myself to doing the zap test. Call me a chicken but sticking my tongue on potentially active lye scares me. I'd rather lick a battery!
thanks everyone.