breastmilk soap

[mama_kass]

I want to make soap with my pumped milk for my little one. How do I do this? What has been your experience with the soap. Also, what else can you make with bm?

[JessicaS]

have you made soap before?? what kind??

If you are making cold process with lye use half the amount of water it calls for then sub the other half the water with bm and add it at trace. It works great.

or you can just add a little to melt and pour..

um..I have made mashed potatoes with bm for my dd but I am not very creative..maybe some others have fun ideas...

[moondiapers]

do an online search for goat's milk or milk soap, and just us bm instead of the milk called for in the recipe.

-Heather

[abismommie]

I know lots of people bake with it - just use the specified amount in place of regular milk or other liquid in the recipe.

[geogirl]

I found this: http://traditionalmidwife.com/mothersmilksoap.html

[kimbalicious]

This too f@#$ing cool! I am so going to try it. mama_kass let us know how it turns out!

[mama_kass]

Thank you so much! I don't quite have six cups of bm yet, I will do a search for goats milk recipies. I'll let you know how it turns out.

[babibelli]

wow!!!!!!

just wanna say what a cool idea!!!!!!!

[JessicaS]

You don't need to get six cups worth...you can find lots of great recipes online..

http://millersoap.com/ has some fun recipes...

this is the normal basic recipe I use...

14 oz water
6 oz lye
12 oz coconut oil
8 oz palm oil
20 oz olive oil

to make it a milk soap you can just use 7 oz of water when making the lye water then add 7 oz of bm at trace.

milk soaps are VERY tempermental it can easily go icky fast..the miller site I posted should have some info on it but the easiest way is to add the milk at trace as when you add the lye it heats very quickly and the milk can curdle which makes it smell kind of weird.

I would highly recommend trying the adding at trace method unless you are pretty experienced at soaping and even then a lot of people have problems. I post at a soaping bb and people are always having tragedies with their milk soaps.

sorry for the grammer problems...nakking....

I will bump the other soaping thread..it mentions a little about using milk or cream

[mama_kass]

That is a good site. Thanks! The gardening area is also neat.