Hi, this is Teri with Tree Marie Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
how to make this bar. It's a goat milk soap and it's all-natural. For this bar I
did not add any colorant or any fragrance. Stay tuned to the end of the
video and I'm going to give you a few tips and also tell you about the white
spots that form in goat milk soap often and I want to explain that a little bit.
Also, I'm going to be offering this recipe on my website for purchase if you
would like, so I will give you the links for that. I replaced all of the water in
the recipe with goat's milk I use raw goat's milk and goats milk has to be
frozen to add it to the why because it'll scorch otherwise. Okay let's get
started. Make sure that you are all geared up for safety and measure the
frozen goat's milk and the sodium hydroxide. If you have never made cold
process soap before milk soap isn't really in the soap you want to start
with because of the heating up that's involved because of the sugars, so you
can scorch the milk pretty easily, so I would recommend if you start with
something, start with a simple recipe that uses water as the liquid. Once
you're finished measuring your sodium hydroxide, add a little bit of that to
your frozen goat's milk. The goal here is to add the sodium hydroxide gradually so
that the temperature stays relatively low.
And to help keep your temperature low I'm going to show you how to make an ice
bath. Just set your pitcher in a bowl that's a little bit larger and
surrounded by ice cubes. And then pour enough water in there to make it barely
flow or not float at all. Be careful that it doesn't float too much or it'll be
unstable. Next, just keep gradually adding a little sodium hydroxide and stir very
well in between and then we're gonna give it a little break. And while we're
gradually adding the sodium hydroxide I want to talk a little bit about the
color of the goat's milk. It's going to turn a little bit of a yellow color when
it's starting to scorch, and it usually gives off kind of an ammonia smell. Now
there's nothing wrong with this. You can totally use it but for this recipe since
I'm not adding any color I wanted to keep it as light as possible. To give you
an idea of an acceptable shade of yellow that's totally fine, I'm going to show
you this picture. Okay in this photo I'm straining the goat milk I wouldn't get
it any darker than this, but this yellow is totally acceptable.
At this point I add a little more, but then once I stir this you can see that
the ice cubes are almost melted, so this is a good time to give it a little break
and to let it cool down again. I try to keep the temperature below 70 degrees
Fahrenheit or 21 degrees Celsius. Next, cover the sodium hydroxide and set it
aside. Next, I'm going to measure my sodium lactate and I just add it to the
batch right away because it's already cool. After you get the sodium lactate
stirred in, just set that aside with your sodium hydroxide. Next, measure the
palm kernel flakes and these have a melting point of 102 degrees Fahrenheit
and 78 degrees Celsius so measure these first and get them melted and then add
the coconut oil and the lard. Lard is a fairly balanced oil. What I like about it
is it has about the same amount of palmitic and stearic acid as it has
oleic acid. So if the palmitic and stearic acid cause it to be a hard bar
and it's a very stable bar it's not a drying bar. And the oleic acid in it
makes it moisturizing. So this is a really nice oil and lard also slows down
acceleration. And this recipe is a very slow-moving recipe. Next, microwave those
if necessary and then we'll add a little more sodium hydroxide to our goat milk.
When it's mixed in completely, set it aside again, and start to measure your
liquid oils, starting with your avocado oil, then your castor oil, and then your
olive oil. The reason I start with the avocado oil is because it's a thinner
oil, and if I go over I can easily put that back because I haven't measured
anything else in there. Then the castor oil is a thick oil, so it's pretty easy
to get that right on and not go over, and then the last oil is just the olive oil
in that one is easy just to top off with a squeeze bottle.
I microwaved these oils until they're almost melted and then I just stir the
rest of the way and I add my cocoa butter.
These are cocoa butter pastilles, and they are from Bramble Berry. I like working with
them, but you can use any kind of cocoa butter with this. If you don't want it to
have a chocolate smell make sure you use the deodorize kind. At this point, add
some more sodium hydroxide and try to keep your temperatures below 70 degrees
Fahrenheit or 21 degrees Celsius.
Next, I stir in my cocoa butter and if it needs a little more microwaving I
microwave it until it's barely melted.
After that, just add the remaining amount of sodium hydroxide and set aside.
Now it's time to add the liquid oils to the melted hard oils. Make sure you
pour it on the side of the pitcher just so you don't introduce a bunch of air
bubbles. Stir your oils until there are no streaks and if there are still streaks
after you stir just microwave them to make them warm enough to have no streaks.
Now strain your lye solution into your oil solution, and this is going to be a
little more difficult than it is when you're using water, but it's pretty
important because you can't tell if there are any pieces of lye that didn't
get dissolved. You're using a colder temperature now, so it's not necessarily
going to dissolve as easily as it when it's warmer. I use the back of a spoon or
I found that if you have a mortar and pestle, the pestle works excellent to get
all of that goat milk through there. There's another reason I strain my lye
solution, but I'm going to speak to you about that when I'm cutting my soap.
Next, make sure you have your mold handy and stick blend until a medium trace is
reached. And with this recipe, it actually took quite a while to get to medium
trace it's a very slow tracing recipe.
Goat milk is wonderful in soap and to think of it as the difference between
water and milk. Milk is so much more creamy. Also, the lactic acid in it helps
to remove the dead skin cells from your top layer of skin and it reveals the
smoother skin underneath. And it's full of vitamins, there's vitamin's A and a few
different kind of B vitamins and C and D and E also. The lather is a very
luxurious it's really smooth and creamy it's wonderful. I would say that I only
got this to light trace when I poured it and that is because this recipe was just
moving so slowly, so if you want to use this recipe for swirls, it would be a
great recipe for swirls. Okay, now that I've poured my batter I just cover it
and I use a Plexiglas sheet to cover it so I can see what's going on under there
without disturbing it. And then I wrap a towel around it and then I put a towel
over the top. And I do keep an eye on it a little bit to make sure it's not
overheating but usually, that's just fine and there, and one reason why is that I
did a big water discount I only use 20% water as a percentage of oils. When you
use less water like that it is harder for it to overheat.
Remember, less water is harder to overheat, and more water is easier to
overheat. Okay, this is the next day, and I love how their soap came out. Before I
cut my loaf into bars, I bevel the long edges first just to make it easier. And
then I mark my bars. And I'm marking the in this case, every inch but I put it on
a slant, so I can get them equal if that doesn't make sense to you I have a video
on that so you can click on the "i" in the upper right corner and find that video.
The rest of this is pretty self-explanatory.
The first thing I want to talk to you about is the white spots that sometimes
form and milk soaps. Sometimes the white spots can be stearic spots.
But most of the time, when you're troubleshooting it I feel like
they get misdiagnosed as steric spots. A lot of times they don't form right
away they form as the bar is curing. check out the bar above. This soap I made
a long time ago when I still kept some bars because I never did sell it, but
originally I thought it might be a lye or something like that but I did the
zap test and there's no zap when you touch your tongue to it and also I just
did it again on my soap that I have, so I know it wasn't lye heavy or anything
like. That but this was a buttermilk soap. The only
oils used were olive oil and coconut oil. And olive oil and coconut oil don't have
much stearic acid or palmitic acid to make those spots. But when I was making
this into soap it already had these little hard round things as I was
introducing it to the oils. So you can imagine that buttermilk has a lot of fat
in it. Those little fat molecules or whatever they are, I'm not a scientist,
okay, so this is just the way I understand it. I read it somewhere, I
could not find it, but I read that, when these little fat particles react with a
lye they turn to soap early, and then a little more lye is absorbed into them.
So when you make your soap and it starts to cure, then that lye starts to go away
and absorb into the rest of the batter, so it leaves a little white spot. So this
is why earlier I said I strain my lye solution. And that doesn't necessarily
get those particles out, but it helps just smash them and make them a little
smaller, so if it doesn't get rid of them altogether, it would just make them a
lot less noticeable. And also, stick blending helps. If any of you that have a
science background can explain that a little better,
just please write it in the comments below, and I would appreciate that.
Some people don't gel their soap. And they get a more white soap. But I have never
had much luck in getting my soap to not partially gel when I put it in the
refrigerator, so I always just go ahead and force gel on my soap. In this case
though all that needs to be done is to just cover the soap. Thank you all for
giving me feedback in the last video, I was asking about
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