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How to Make Breast Milk Soap (With OR Without Lye)

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An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make breast milk soap. Making your own soap is a great way to use up any extra milk you might have.

breast milk soaps

Here you'll find two different methods (melt and pour/ cold process) to make breast milk soap. The first is perfect for beginners that want to make soap without lye, the second is for more experienced soap makers.

Both are a great way to make beautiful soaps using your own milk as a fresh ingredient. And you can customize them both to your heart's desire with essential oils, honey and oatmeal.

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Activated Charcoal Soap Recipe (With or Without Lye)

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Mysterious, woodsy, yet bright and refreshing is how I would describe the scent of this wonderful charcoal soap. Certainly more a masculine kind of scent, but one that might appeal to men and women alike. The best thing: YOU can make this soap, no matter if you're a beginner looking for a melt and pour soap recipe or a veteran soap maker who's comfortable working with lye. Here you'll find detailed instructions for both: an easy layered soap (using a soap base) and a more advanced swirled cold process soap.

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Goat Milk Soap Recipe (with AND without Lye)

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Goat milk soap is one of the most popular kinds of handmade soaps out there. If you've ever had the pleasure to try a bar you know why: goat milk makes for a very gentle, nourishing and decadently creamy soap. Give this easy goat milk soap recipe a try - you'll love it!

melt and pour soap base goat milk soap

Today I'll show you how to make a wonderfully rich and soothing goat milk soap. And whether you're a veteran cold process soap maker or a newbie who prefers melt and pour soap (without handling lye), I've got you covered with these easy step-by-step tutorials. The result with both techniques is a gorgeous oatmeal, milk and honey soap that everyone in your family will want to get their paws on!

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Easy Dinosaur Melt and Pour Soaps

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I'm a cold process soap maker through and through, but sometimes you just gotta love the convenience and easy handling of melt and pour soap. It's great for quick and easy projects and I like that I can melt small amounts of material and pour it into tiny molds to create cute details. Melt and pour soap is also great if you want to get your kids involved, like I did last year with my son.

three round colorful dinosaur soaps

I wanted to surprise my kids with these little soaps. They loved the "Dino Bombs" from a couple of months ago so, I was sure they'd love these dinosaur melt and pour soaps as well.

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Making Melt and Pour Soap With My 4 Year Old

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Melt and Pour Soap

In the last few months my kids have been watching me unmold and cut a lot of soap. If you have kids you know this: They want to imitate everything you do, especially if it looks like you're having fun. Finally Small (4 years old) demanded one day: “Mom, I want to make soap too.” In my head I had already prepared all the reasons why that wasn’t a good idea - kids couldn’t work with lye, it was too dangerous and so on. But then I thought of making melt and pour soap. Yes, that could work....

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