Goat milk soap recipe without lye - a great way to make your own goat milk soap with lots of natural ingredients. Make beautiful handmade soaps without worrying about lye mixture. This soap is gentle, nourishing and great for gifting. Give melt and pour soap making a try - it's easy and fun!
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Making goat milk soap from scratch is quite an involved process. It requires you to follow safety precautions and requires a lot of ingredients, like lye, fresh milk olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter etc. The cold process soap maker will mix lye and oils/ fats in order to kick off a chemical reaction. What follows is the saponification process which eventually results in goat milk soap bars.
Luckily, there's a work around to all this: melt and pour soap - hooray! It allows you to make homemade soap without the use of lye. It's rewarding and a lot of fun to make your own soap. The resulting soap is gentle on dry skin / itchy skin, soothing on sensitive skin and can gently remove dead skin cells.
Advantages of Melt and Pour Method
- no need to handle, store or be careful around lye (sodium hydroxide)/ lye solution
- no extra equipment like immersion blender (stick blender) needed
- easily customizable by adding essential oils, fragrance oil, oatmeal, natural colorants etc.
- few ingredients needed
- can be made in small batches
- easy way to make homemade gifts
- great craft for older kids
- no cure time - soap is ready to use when cooled
Melt & Pour Goat Milk Soap Recipe with Oatmeal and Honey
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Equipment
- sharp knife
- cutting board
- silicone mold
- 4 quart glass measuring cup
- digital kitchen scale
- whisk
- spatula
- small spray bottle for rubbing alcohol
Ingredients for 6 Bars of Soap
- goat milk melt and pour base: 23oz / 650g
- lavender essential oil: 8g (~2 tsp)
- raw honey: 2 tsp
- colloidal oatmeal (or finely ground oats): 1 tsp
- rubbing alcohol
How to Make Goat Milk Soap without Lye:
- cut melt and pour soap base into 1 Inch cubes
2. melt soap base in microwave on 30 second bursts or in a water bath on low heat stirring frequently
3. add honey to the fully melted soap base
4. add essential oil
5. add oatmeal
6. whisk
7. pour into soap mold
8. spritz with rubbing alcohol to reduce air bubbles
9. let cool until solid
10. release from soap molds by tugging on sides first
10. Voila! store in an airtight container or plastic bag away from heat and sunlight.
Goat Milk Melt & Pour Soap Recipe (printable)
Goat milk soap recipe without lye - a great way to make your own goat milk soap with lots of natural ingredients. Melt and pour soap making a try - it's easy and fun!
Materials
- goat milk soap base (melt and pour): 23oz / 650g
- lavender essential oil: 8g (~2 tsp)
- honey: 2 tsp
- colloidal oatmeal (or finely ground oats): 1 tsp
- rubbing alcohol
Tools
- sharp knife
- cutting board
- silicone soap mold
- 4 quart glass measuring cup
- digital kitchen scale
- whisk
- spatula
- small spray bottle for rubbing alcohol
Instructions
- Cut 23oz/ 650g of soap base into small cubes with a sharp knife
- Place in a measuring cup and melt in microwave on 30 sec burst or over low heat in a water bath
- When completely melted add honey, oatmeal and essential oil
- whisk
- carefully pour into mold
- spritz surface with rubbing alcohol
- let cool down completely (about 2 hours)
- gently release from mold by tugging on sides of the mold first and then gently pushing from bottom
- store in an airtight container away from heat and sunlight
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