Goats 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 fun and rewarding!
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Can you make soap without lye?
Making goat milk soap from scratch is quite an involved process. It requires you to follow safety precautions and use many ingredients, such as lye, frozen milk, olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, castor oil, sweet almond oil, etc. The cold process soap maker will mix lye and oils/ fats to start a chemical reaction. What follows is the saponification process which eventually results in goat milk soap bars.
Luckily, there's a workaround 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.
Recommended: DIY Loofah Soap
Advantages of the Melt and Pour Method
- no need to handle, store, or be careful around lye (sodium hydroxide)/ lye solution
- no extra equipment like an immersion blender (stick blender), ice cube trays, or protective gear needed
- easily customizable by adding essential oils, fragrance oil, oatmeal, natural colorants, etc.
- few ingredients needed
- quick to make - no need to wait until soap batter reaches room temperature or medium trace
- 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
How to Make Goat Milk Soap
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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
- melt the soap base in a microwave on 30-second bursts or in a water bath on low heat stirring frequently
- add honey to the fully melted soap base
- add essential oil
- add oatmeal
- whisk
- pour soap into the soap mold
- spritz the top of the soap with rubbing alcohol to reduce air bubbles
- let cool until solid
- release from soap molds by tugging on the sides first
- store in an airtight container or plastic bag away from heat and sunlight
FAQs
Making goat milk soap using a goats milk soap base is very easy to make. The soap-making process has already been done for you, all you have to do is melt, add ingredients, and pour into a beautiful mold.
You can use goat milk soap to wash your hair. However, using a homemade hair rinse with equal parts apple cider vinegar and water is recommended afterward. This will ensure that the natural pH of your hair remains balanced.
No, there's no lye present in the finished soap base. Lye has been used to activate the soap-making process but has now been transformed into soap.
Lactic acid found in goat milk may be helpful in whitening skin, although there's no scientific evidence of this claim. For goat milk to be effective for skin brightening, prepare a face mask out of powdered goat milk and water and apply it twice a week for 15-20 minutes.
Goat milk soap contains lactic acid (a type of alpha hydroxy acid) which helps to gently cleanse and exfoliate without disturbing the skin's natural barrier mantle. Find out all the benefits of goat milk soap in my in-depth article.
Goat Milk Soap Recipe Without Lye (printable)
Goat milk soap recipe without lye - a great way to make your own goat milk soap with lots of natural ingredients. Give 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
Kellie Lievens
Can you use raw goats milk in this recipe?
Celine
Not to this recipe, but I have instructions on how to make soap using raw goats milk here.