Goat’s milk is a delicious alternative to the more traditional cow’s milk. It is creamy and filling, making it a good ingredient for milk, cheese and other dairy products. Remarkably, goat’s milk also has the moisturizing properties of cow’s milk when used in making soap.
Cleans and Moisturizes
Goat’s milk soap works just like a moisturizing lotion. It moisturizes your skin while removing dirt and germs. Just like milk-based soaps, it’s gentle on your skin. People with sensitive skin should not have problems bathing or washing their hands with this product. Clearly, goat’s milk soap is a good starting point if you want to create your own soap.
Two Ways to Make Goat’s Milk Soap
When making goat’s milk soap, you have two options. Each option has its specific set of uses. Just pick one according to your needs or make both soap types.
Goat’s Milk Soap Bar
Goat’s Milk Liquid Soap
Goat’s Milk Soap Bar
The goat’s milk soap bar is made from a combination of moisturizing and cleansing agents. Lard and oatmeal are added to the mixture, which enhances the moisturizing features of goat’s milk. As a result, the finished product is soft and creamy. Its PH balance is lower than most soaps, despite the presence of a potent germ-killer, such as lye.
Materials Used:
3 cups goat’s milk
1 ½ pounds lard
1 cup oatmeal
2 tsp borax
6.5 oz lye
2 oz glycerin
soap molds
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hair dryer
Procedure:
Place the lard in a pan. Heat it until it melts.
Put the goat’s milk in a separate pan, then slowly add the lye while mixing the solution. Continue mixing until the solution turns golden. Maintain the temperature at about 85 – 90 degrees Celsius.
Use a thermometer to check the temperature of the goat’s milk mixture. Let it cool to 85 degrees Celsius, then maintain the temperature.
In a mixing bowl, place the borax, oatmeal and glycerin. Mix the three ingredients well.
Add the contents of the mixing bowl to the lard mixture, then mix.
Add the resulting solution to the goat’s milk and lye mixture.
Use a mixer to blend the solution for 15 minutes.
Let the solution rest for 5 minutes, then mix it again for 5 minutes. Repeat this step until the solution thickens.
Place the solution in soap molds. Cover the molds with cloth and store them for a day.
Blowdry the soap for several minutes daily. Repeat the process for about two to three months.
The goat’s milk soap bar is primarily used for moisturizing skin. If you want to increase its efficacy for skin cleansing, you can mix more lye when creating the soap. Just regulate the amount of lye that you plan to add, especially if you have sensitive skin.
Goat’s Milk Liquid Soap
Goat’s milk can be added to most liquid soap recipes. You just have to compensate for its properties and the formation of milk fat. Potassium hydroxide often comes along with the milk to regulate curdling and increase the soap’s cleansing ability.
Materials Used:
25 oz goat’s milk
25 oz water
6 oz potassium hydroxide
2 oz boric acid
16 oz olive oil
7 oz coconut oil
3 oz lavender oil
dye
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Procedure:
Mix 20 oz goat’s milk, 20 oz water and 5.5 oz potassium hydroxide in a pot.
Heat the mixture to about 120 degrees Celsius.
Mix the coconut oil and the olive oil in a different pot.
When both oils have settled, add 5 oz water, 5 oz goat’s milk, .5 oz potassium hydroxide and the borax into the mixture. Stir until its consistency changes.
Add the dye and lavender oil to the mixture.
Dilute the solution in boiling water.
Mix the solution hourly for about five to six hours.
Allow the solution to thicken for two days.
Once it’s ready, pour the liquid soap in a liquid soap dispenser.
Goat’s milk soap is fun and easy to make. The creation processes may be a little lengthy, but the steps are straightforward. You shouldn’t have any problems making either the bar or the liquid soap. With patience and perseverance, you will get one of the best moisturizing soaps available. Now, that’s a good deal.