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Homemade Soap Recipe for Making Goat Milk Soap

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Follow a natural homemade soap recipe with, step-by-step, soap making instructions.

WARNING:

Before you begin with this homemade soap recipe, make sure you are wearing rubber gloves and safety goggles. You will be handling lye and it can cause extremely painful burns if it contacts your skin. If you do happen to get a lye burn, pour white vinegar on the burn to neutralize the lye. If you spill lye, wipe the area with generous amounts of white vinegar to be sure all lye is neutralized.

You will also be working with essential oils. Essential oils are bioactive. They are potent chemicals and should be respected and treated with care!

You will be making homemade goat milk soap at your own risk. Understand all ingredients, procedures and safety precautions before beginning.

Measure your ingredients:

Ingredients:

Olive oil – 24 oz.

Coconut oil - 10 oz.

Lard – 30 oz.

Milk – 24 oz.

(Pour into a shallow pan and freeze solid, break into chunks before using.)

Lye – 8.7 oz.

1 - Prepare your molds.

In Your Stainless Steel Stockpot:

2 - Melt your lard and coconut oil. Do not heat above 115 degrees.

3 - Add your olive oil.

In Your Pyrex or Plastic Container:

4 - Add lye into the milk and lye mixture. Keep an eye on the temperature, and make sure the lye/milk doesn’t get hotter than about 140 degrees or else the milk will scorch. You do not want your milk to scorch. If the milk has all thawed, put the lye in very slowly in small amounts, waiting until the temperature goes below 90 degrees before each addition.

5 - Monitor the temperature of the lye and of the oils.

6 - When they both reach a temperature of 90 to 100 degrees, you can go to the next step.

7 - Slowly pour the milk/lye mixture into the oils while stirring.

8 - Stir until the soap “traces”

9 - Add any additives you want now.

10 - Stir well and quickly.

11 - Pour into your mold.

12 - When the soap hardens enough, dump the soap out of the mold and use a sharp kitchen, (butcher), knife to cut into bars.

13 - Set the bars on a non-metallic surface to cure for 3 weeks.

This homemade soap recipe makes 4 lbs. of soap.

Making homemade soap requires patience and practice. Following these, step-by-step, soap making instructions will help you reach your soap making goal easier. I hope everyone will try making goat milk soap sometime. This soap recipe will make a batch of soap to last a long time.

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