Soap Makers Help!

[RockyToggRanch]

Just did a plain milk soap and covered the top with little "cookies" sliced from the donut holes..lol

"Cookies and Milk"

The shavings from shaping the donuts will go into my next coffee scrub bar...which is on the top of my "need another batch soon" list.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Did I mention that my sister helped me get my website going? We just have to add a shopping cart and a few other touches... check it out.

www.rockytoggsoapco.com

It's a start

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Here it is..."Cookies and Milk" It's a plain , unscented milk soap (16 oz milk, 10 0z water) with "cookies" floating on the top. The cookies are scented with a sugar cookie FO and they were actually sliced donut holes from the donut soap. I'm pleased with the outcome.

 

[Morgaine]

Very Cute!!

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

Quote:
Unlike Morgaine, I do use frozen milk. since you already have your milk frozen in ice cube trays, you're good to go. (Just as an aside, each cube will weigh approx 1 oz .. makes it easier to know how many cubes to pull out!)

In either case ... slushy or frozen ... make sure your molds are ready to go AND your oils are ready and waiting to incorporate the milk/lye solution.

I use frozen milk, add the lye 1/3 at a time and make sure everything is melting and incorporating at the same time. Then pour my very cold lye/milk solution into my waiting oils.

 

[Morgaine]

Cyndi, when you do the frozen milk, is your entire batch of milk frozen and in cubes or just say half with the other half liquid? When the whole batch was frozen I just couldn't get it to go right.

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

The whole batch, Morgaine.

I freeze my Jersey milk flat in ziplock bags. When I bring out my oils (or masterbatch), I also bring the frozen milk out of the freezer. I weigh my oils, put the solid oils on to melt, then put my liquied oils into those. Set it aside. Then I weigh my frozen milk (chunked up into about 1" cubes). Weigh my lye. Dump about 1/3 of the lye onto the frozen milk chunks. Stir and let them melt. Pour about half the remaining lye into the milk, stir real well, pour the remaining lye on to the milk (I still have frozen chunks at this point), stir well. Use the stick blender to get ride of the remaining milk cubes, then pour immediately into the waiting oils.

Soap as normal.

 

[Morgaine]

Hmm, I may have had too big of chunks then when I tried it that way. I was going really slow too, only adding a spoonfull at a time and couldn't get enough heat to dissolve all the lye.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

I use frozen milk too, but I chop mine up pretty good with a blade first. Mine heats up a lot, so I never add it straight in. I watch the temp 'til it cools to about 110.

Note that all ice cube trays are not the same, so weigh your cubes to know for sure the first time.

My milk is frozen in baggies. Next year I'll weigh out 24oz baggies of it. Then it'll be good to go. Why didn't I do that this yr???

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

With dump & stir method and using larger milk cubes, I have milk cubes left after all the lye has been incorporated. I use the stick blender to break up the rest of the frozen milk. My milk/lye solution only gets to aroun 70*-75*F