Making Soap with Goat's Milk
Author: Sinclair A. Sheers Published on: October 8, 2001

Goat's milk makes soap gentle and moisturizing. Goat's milk adds natural proteins, vitamins, and minerals to soap. Goat's milk lowers the Ph of the soap to make it more compatible with skin. Goat's milk soap is especially kind to sensitive skin.

There are several different ways to make soap with goat's milk.

Powdered Goat's Milk
One of the easiest ways to add goat's milk to soap is to use powdered goat's milk. You can buy it from health food stores or order it on the web from a website like www.from-nature-with-love.com.

Whether you melt and pour, rebatch, make cold process, or make hot process soap, mix in one or two tablespoons of powdered goat's milk per pound of soap right before you put the soap into molds.

If you color your soap, sometimes powdered goat's milk affects the final color.

Liquid Goat's Milk

Melt and Pour

You can mix about a tablespoon of liquid goat's milk into melt and pour soap right before you pour the soap into molds.

Rebatch

You can use goat's milk, instead of cow's milk, when you rebatch soap.

Hot or Cold Process

When you make hot or cold process soap with liquid goat's milk, you mix the goat's milk with the lye at the beginning. You can either use half goat's milk and half water or all goat's milk.

If you use half goat's milk and half water, dissolve the lye in the water first then add the goat's milk straight from the fridge. Then add this mixture to your oils.

If you use all goat's milk, measure it and put it into the freezer beforehand until it is slushy. Then sit it in a large container of ice and add the lye slowly. Stir it for a long time. When I tried this, an orange lump formed in my mixture. I assume it was mostly lye. Try to add the lye slowly so no orange lumps form. If you do get orange lumps, keep stirring until they dissolve. When all the lye is mixed in, add this mixture to your oils. Make sure your oils are not too hot, somewhere around 90 degrees.

If you make hot process soap, liquid goat's milk will color your soaps brown or tan, the mixture will smell bad during the cook, and it will be less solid than usual. Just cook it the usual amount of time and pour it into the molds. It will eventually harden and give you lovely, luxurious soap. Then you can do the happy soap dance!