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Spring is nearly here and goat's milk will be ready I'm wanting to change my recipe for soap making to an all lavender please help and advise me on how I can extract the ginger from my recipe and have it all lavender Thank you for all your sage input in regard to helping me present recipe...

This coming week I will make my last batch of goats milk soap for this year. Just a quick comment: My initial teacher from years ago only makes soap AFTER the new moon. He believes that is when soap should be made. He also (as I do) make the soap early in the day..pour it in its...

here is my updated new and improved recipe! Thank You !

maybe i should not freeze the goats milk (thats adding ice liquid?) and just add the goats milk little by little to the lye keeping the mixing container in an ice bath and watching the temp closely so it does not overheat past 130F ?

coconut oil olive oil lard slow heat to 130 F

I absolutley appreciate the time you are taking with me.. how would you improve this recipe?

I freeze the goats milk into ice cubes than add a few of the goats milk cubes in a container than slowly add a bit of lye --mix them-- add a few more cubes and a bit more lye--mix them-- and so on until the goats milk and lye become one

coconut oil olive oil lard slow heat to 130 F Add goats milk ice cubes to lard mix together to 130F add to the oils/lard when its at trace add the fragrance

I believe I did the 1.25 and 1.13 are lbs

what about adding Sodium Lactate? add around 1 teaspoon for every pound (16 oz) of oils in a recipe, stirred into the cooled lye solution. For example, if your soap recipe has 32 oz (907 g) of oil, then use 2 tsp of sodium lactate

Here is my CP recipe 20oz coconut oil 1.25 20oz olive oil 1.25 18oz goat's milk 1.13 7.5 oz lye 13 oz lard Lemon Honey Fragrance Oil - 8 oz from Bramble Berry 3.60 ounces After sitting for five weeks my soap is very soft what would I add for a hard bar? Any suggestions is greatly appreciated...