First hot process homemade goats milk soap with recipe

Our first batch of cold process soap (see here) still has about 3 or 4 more days before it is ready but Mom and I could not wait to try out hot process soap so today we got all of our stuff together and spent the morning making another batch of soap.  With hot process we are going to be able to use the soap alot sooner.

What you will need:

Crockpot

Bowls, spoon, spatula, wisk

Good digital scale

Stick mixer

Mold (we used a can food box from grocery store it was 8.25x12 inches divided in half with another piece of cardboard covered in plastic wrap)

Plastic garbage bag (cut into single layer to cover the box to protect from oils)

fragrance oil or essential oils (we used  Something Fabulous brand from Hobby Lobby)

Oils we used

3.2 oz sweet almond oil         10%

9.6 oz coconut oil                   30%

6.4 oz sunflower oil                20%

11.2 oz olive oil                      35%

1.6 oz stearic acid                   5%

You can use whatever oils that you like just make sure to run through a lye calculator (this is the one that we used) to verify how much lye/water to use

12.16 oz water

4.569 oz lye

4 scoops powdered goat’s milk

*Our goat’s milk came with a scoop if not use 8 tablespoons

*also when making soap with milk it will be darker in color

Extras

Fragrance oils

            Japanese louts blossom

            Lilac

            Honey almond

Honey

Oatmeal

*This recipe uses 2 lbs of oil, if you want to make more or less just plug the % into the lye calculator to get the correct amounts*

Directions:

If you have any solid oils turn Crockpot on low add in oils and stir make sure all oils are melted then turn off

Go outside and add lye to water stir until clear

*be careful with this step lye is very dangerous and will burn if it touches you skin use protective gear

*if you get lye on you, you can use vinegar to stop the burning.

* be sure to always pour lye into water not the other way around.

Pour lye water into oil
Add in stearic acid and goat milk powder

Stir with spoon or Wisk until everything is incorporated then use stick mixer until your batter is at trace (i did not time this but about 20 minuts)

trace

Set Crockpot to low and put lid on it stir occasionally to keep batter cooking even 

Our Crockpot cooked really hot and ended up separating the batter so next time we will try to cook it on warm (if this happens just turn down and keep stirring until back together)

Our booboo

When done batter will look like waxy mashed potatoes test with “zap test” (take a little and put it to your tongue if there is any sting it is not done)  to make sure the saponification process is complete. (This took 1 hour even with the mess up)

 Transfer batter into another bowl and stir for a few minutes to let soap cool add in extra’s

Put in molds and cover let sit for 12 hours then cut into bars

This time we halved the batter, in 1^st half we used

¼ oz of Japanese lotus blossom fragrance oil

¼ oz of lilac fragrance oil

The other half we used

¼ oz of honey almond fragrance oil

1 tablespoon of honey

 ¼ cup of oatmeal that we chopped up in a processor

            With this batch we got 9 bars of lotus blossom and lilac and 9 bars of honey almond  (2.75x2 inches)

Add in any fragrance you like at no more than 1oz of fragrance for 2 lbs of soap

Add dry items at no more then ½ cup for 2 lbs

Soap will be ready to use once it hardens.


Would you try making your own soap?

-Debra and Becca