” you are in luck. Because I’m bringing you the recipes to make soap in two ways—with and without lye. So tell your nanny goats to get ready because once you see these recipes you’ll be flying through their milk like there is no tomorrow....
Let the soap cure for at least 6 weeks before use. Be aware, you cannot make bar soap at home without lye (sodium hydroxide). Do not worry, correctly made and cured homemade soap is milder than anything you can buy. The fats and lye go through a chemical reaction, or "saponify" and...
The way that most cold-process soapmakers make goat milk soap is to replace all the water called for in making the lye solution with goat milk. The typical method is to freeze all of the goat milk into ice cubes, sprinkle the lye onto them, and allow the lye and frozen milk to slowl...
Just like when adding milk to soap, the sugars in honey could burn if things heat up too much. There are several ways to add the honey to the soap without that happening. One solution is to add the honey to the oils, rather than the water, before combining them with the lye solution...
the goat’s milk. If you just dump it, it can create crusty lye clumps that are hard to dissolve because there is not initially enough liquid to dissolve it all at once. Some of these lye clumps can go without getting dissolved and end up in your finished soap. You don’t want that...
The soap should be solid looking but may still be soft to the touch. Leave the soap uncovered for another 48 hours, then see if it is hard enough to touch without leaving an impression, if it proceeds, if not, then allow it to harden a little longer. ...