Breast Milk Soap

[StoriesInTheSoil]

This is my latest thing. I decided I wanted to learn to make lye milk soap. I was thinking goat's milk soap but then in a late-night nursing session the thought of human milk lye soap occurred to me. I googled it tonight and found that it's not an original idea and there are actual instructions online!

So, what do you all think? Anyone done it?

[Tangled Hill]

I haven't tried making soap yet, myself (it's on my to do list), but this sounds like a great idea! Seems like that would make a wonderful soap!

[PJJ]

Great ideas!

Hope your extra mommy's milk makes fantastic soap!

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[StoriesInTheSoil]

I told my mother that I wanted to make breastmilk soap and got some laughs from my step family who was in the room but when I mentioned that I was talking about really making real soap, she figured out that lye was going to be involved and said I'm not "allowed" to do it without her. I told her I was set on doing this soon. She said that she'd help!!! :

My mother has her PITA moments but sometimes she so totally rocks

[amcal]

Unless you have a lot of extra bm sitting around that is going to waste, I wouldn't waste breastmilk in soap. The lye is going to kill pretty much anything beneficial in it except for the fat.

You're better off using a goats milk, coconut milk etc... soap.

But, that's just me. Like I said, if you have tons sitting around then there is no reason you can't do it. But, you won't really get any benefit from it.

[MoonStarFalling]

I always wanted to try bm soap. It makes me think of Fight Club and how their soap was so amazing because it was made with human fat.

[JamieCatheryn]

I saw instructions for that on a site once, but it's just the same as goat's milk soap - you just have to start with the milk slushy icy cold and use an ice water bath around your container when you mix the lye into it. All that is so the heat doesn't burn the milk sugars (lye takes liquid up very hot very fast when first combined). I make my batches of 12 bars of soap with about 10oz water (depending on the recipe), do you pump that much milk easily enough that it's no big waste? Or it could be part goat part human milk. The novelty of it seems to make it worth it if so, and it seems so appropriate for baby's skin doesn't it?

[StoriesInTheSoil]

Originally Posted by JamieCatheryn

I saw instructions for that on a site once, but it's just the same as goat's milk soap - you just have to start with the milk slushy icy cold and use an ice water bath around your container when you mix the lye into it. All that is so the heat doesn't burn the milk sugars (lye takes liquid up very hot very fast when first combined). I make my batches of 12 bars of soap with about 10oz water (depending on the recipe), do you pump that much milk easily enough that it's no big waste? Or it could be part goat part human milk. The novelty of it seems to make it worth it if so, and it seems so appropriate for baby's skin doesn't it?

Yeah I just pumped about 20 oz in 15 minutes and I don't typically pump so I think it'll be easy enough.

I agree about the novelty and appropriateness for baby's skin

[JessicaS]

An easy way to use milk in soap is to cut your lye water by 1/2 instead of replacing all of it, mix your soap normally using the less water and then at trace adding the other 1/2 of the liquid as milk.

It is pretty easy.

If you don't do it that way...yeah you'll need to have it nice and slushy in an ice bath or it will get icky.

[shanniesue2]

My first thought was "oh cool!"

But then when I started thinking about how I struggle to pump every day and make sure that DS has enough milk for daycare the next day and how I only have 3 oz in my frozen stash right now...

well, I certainly wouldn't use bm to make soap with (but I'm in a different situation)

and to 20 oz in 15 minutes!!!!
WTG mama!