goat milk, oatmeal and honey, coconut oil drying??

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In a message dated 02/17/2003 10:47:46 PM Central Standard Time,

raphador writes:

 

 

> Here I am with another of thoses newbie questions...

> I purchased some goats milk and now I don't remember how to determine the

> fat content. Could someone please educate me about this?

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> Has anyone ever used goats milk with an oatmeal and honey soap? How much

> oatmeal and honey would you use per lb of fat?

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> I have pureed a cucumber...............

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> Hi ,Debra in Florida, I also am in Fla., Northwest panhandle to be exact.

> About 8 miles from Ala. to my west. I don't get to get online much these

> days, and when I do, I never know when I'll be able to retutn so i'm going

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As to your question about goatsmilk, oatmeal and honey soap. Yes, as a matter

of fact, I just taught a lady how to make soap and that is what we made.

Turned out great! Left half the batch plain and put an ounce of Oatmeal,

milk, and honey FO in the other batch. Smells heavenly. And, to my surprise,

it didn't take on that " stink " that goatsmilk soap sometimes does until it is

cured. Here's the recipe if you'd care to try it.

 

48 oz. pomace olive oil

28 oz coconut oil

11 oz. palm oil

33 oz goatsmilk

13 oz lye

 

She wanted to use all goatsmilk as her liquid so, because we used canned

goatsmilk, we used 13 oz of lye to make up for the richness of the canned

milk. Added the lye right to the gm, mixed when oils and lye solution were at

100 degrees. Added 1 cup of ground & sifted oatmeal and 1/4 cup honey mixed

with 1 oz castor oil at light trace. This is 5.5 pounds of oils but I don't

know what that translates into per pound of oils. Turned out a beautiful

golden brown and smells wonderful.

I also just made more of my oily skin soap using pureed cucumber as half

the liquid for my lye. used sunflower, pk, coconut, castor and olive oils,

which are the best combination of non-comedogenic oils I have found so far.

It seems to be working for a few of my clients that buy it for acne-prone

skin so I hesitate to play with it although I would like to. LOL. Just know

that if you don't grind the peel into a fine powder and sift it also, it can

be a bit more " scratchy " than you might like. And I wouldn't put a lot in

either. HTH's, Deonia

 

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[Guest guest]

Here I am with another of thoses newbie questions...

I purchased some goats milk and now I don't remember how to determine the fat

content. Could someone please educate me about this?

 

Has anyone ever used goats milk with an oatmeal and honey soap? How much

oatmeal and honey would you use per lb of fat?

 

I have 2 different batches of soap that are curing and I tried both of them

today and they both lather great...which is really GREAT since my water is so

hard that's difficult to have. I now realize that because I used so much

coconut oil 55% and 50% in both they may actually be drying to the skin. So it

is back to the drawing board.

 

I have pureed a cucumber and it is waiting in the frig for me to use it tomorrow

to make a wonderful soap. I had planned to use some lime and grapefruit peel in

this soap along with my sweet orange EO and Litsea Cubeba EO but was told I

needed to dry them first because they would turn brown in the soap. So how do I

do this?? Put the peel in the oven or microwave to dehydrate...would that work?

 

Also, I want to thank everyone on this board who has been so kind and patient

with me as I learn about this wonderful process of making wonderful soap. I

truly want to make a soap that will not only feel terrific on my skin but may

also help my family with skin problems. You are all so terrific, and I hope

that one day I will be able to assist someone else as they begin their journey

into the wonderful land of homemade soap.

 

Debra in Florida