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Making Goat Milk Soap
- 1. Making Goat Milk Soap If you consider making goat milk soap, notice that it looks different. The different appearance is not what initially makes people look at this kind of soap. Nevertheless, if you make it like we do, then the color sets this kind of soap apart from other more ordinary soap products. If you don't control the temperature of the milk mix as you add lye, then the resulting soap will be a burnt orange color. In fact, that burnt orange color is mostly what people expect with milk soap. On the other hand, I want just the slightest tan color soap. That's the kind of color that you get if you control the temperature of the mix of lye and milk. And, by the way, if you dilute the milk with water you get something less than milk soap too. After all the advantages of milk in soap are quite subtle anyhow. Why use even less milk and get less benefit? There is not a reason to do that, as I see it. For colored goat milk soap, consider just using plant material colorants. Colors For Making Goat Milk Soap Like the goat milk used to make soap, plant material colorants just lend these subtle tints to the soap. That's a perfect complement to the base color you get with the milk. Consider these soap coloring agents for your soap... Rose hips powder Spirulina powder Turmeric powder Kelp Annatto seed Beet root powder Calendula blossom Paprika These work the best when used as coloring for marbling in the soap. Just color a small amount of the soap batch and then swirl that colored soap into the remainder of the batch. Using the natural colors imparted with goats milk when making goat milk soap produces colors that stand out. Handmade milk soap products are already outstanding. Use the right additions and get better results. The author, Al Bullington, crafts and writes. Check out his soap making guide, The SoapBizKit at http://www.soapbizkit.com.