Goats Milk (my mixture) Soap

Date Poured: 21st Feb 2009

My made up recipe:
200g Sunflower oil (20%)
250g Coconut oil (25%)
250g Palm oil (25%)
300g Olive oil (30%)

140g Sodium hydroxide (6% excess fat)
333g Goats Milk

Should be a fairly hard bar with the olive oil and moderate in Cleansing, conditioning, and bubbly and creamy lather.

This recipe traced extremely quickly. It was probably only less than a minute with the stick mixer and it was at trace

After being poured

Costing:
Sunflower oil (1L, .....g: $4.49) $1.12
Coconut oil (250g) $2.16
Olive oil (4L, 3240g: $19.99) $1.85
Palm oil ( ) $2.50
Goats milk (1L: $3.99) $1.33
Sodum Hydroxide (500g $4.00) $1.12

Cost of batch = $10.08
Cost per 100g = $0.77

Coffee Soap

Date Poured: 20th Feb 2009

Recipe:
500g Tallow (homebrand solidified oil - Animal Fat)
250g Coconut oil
250g Olive oil

141g Lye
375g Water (coffee)

For this recipe I made up some coffee with 2 tablespoons of Irish cream ground coffee in 300mL hot water, this then went into the freezer to cool and turn into a slushy, and the extra weight of water made up with ice cubes, with the lye added to that, then added to the oils.

I am hoping that this will end up being a nice hard bar, with good cleansing, and a good bubbly, creamy lather.

After being poured

After being removed from the moulds
(around 24hours after being poured)

The two smaller blocks are about 385g and the bigger one 715g. Cutting each of the smaller ones into three and the larger one into 6 will result in 12 bars around the 120g mark.

After being cut.

Weighing each of the bars, each one is between 115g and 130g, so I will be interested to see how much weight is lost in the curing process. Also there is not a huge coffee smell to it but I think that once it is cured the smell will come out quite well when being used as a subtle smell.

Costing:
Tallow (500g): $1.58
Coconut oil (250g): $2.16
Olive oil(500ml=$2.92): $1.80
Lye (500g=$4.00): $1.13

Cost of batch: $6.67
Cost per 100g: $0.51

Recipies that I want to try

Ellice's Milk Honey Oat Soap!

800g Olive Oil
200g Rice Bran Oil
430g Milk
128g Caustic Soda
3 handfuls of quick oats, and about 2-4 tablespoons of honey put in at trace

My made up recipe:

200g Sunflower oil (20%)
250g Coconut oil (25%)
250g Palm oil (25%)
300g Olive oil (30%)

140g Sodium hydroxide (6% excess fat)
250-375mL water

Should be a fairly hard bar with the olive oil and moderate in Cleansing, conditioning, and bubbly and creamy lather. I am thinking of making this one a coffee one with the water solution a strong coffee, with the grounds added at trace.

Other Flavours

• Choc Orange -Cocoa and orange oil added at trace

• Lemon myrtle - strong Lemon Myrtle tea made for water solution, with tea leaves added at trace

• Choc Pepermint - Cocoa added at trace and strong peppermint tea used for water solution

Goats Milk Olive Oil Soap

Date Poured: 14th Feb 2009

Recipie:
1000g Olive oil
129g Sodium Hydroxide
333g Goats Milk

Measure and freeze Goats Milk in a pyrex jug until it's at least at slushy stage, add sodium hydroxide slowly, stiring, milk will thaw and heat up
Measure oils (note 500ml of olive oil =455g) into stainless steel bowl
Mix to trace then pour into moulds

Now for the mould I just used some takeaway containers, no need for oiling

After being poured

24 hours later, un-moulded and cut into bar sizes

Costing:
Olive oil (500ml: $2.92) $5.84
Goats milk (1L: $3.99) $1.33
Sodum Hydroxide (500g $4.00) $1.02

Cost of batch = $8.37
Cost per 100g = $0.64

I think in future I will pour a thinner layer in the mould, say 2.5 to 3cm, and cut it wider so that the soaps have more mould and top surface and less cut surface, I think it will also help to keep the blocks a bit more even.

The Goats Milk Soap Beginings

After suffering with eczema/dermatitis for as long as I can remember, seeing doctors countless time and using the creams and lotions they prescribed which would provide relief for that outbreak but only until what ever it is that triggers it happens again, I decided to try some Goats Milk soap, which I had heard many people who were in the same boat as me tying numerous creams and lotions, never being able to find a solution.

Well a friend sent me a couple of bars of "80 acres" Goats milk soap, which I was quite impressed by. I gave a bar to a cousin who had just had a baby and had a bit of eczema, and two other children who suffer from sensitive skin, she too was quite impressed with it. My auntie also oowed and ahed when she saw the soap, she too had tried Goats Milk Soap before and loved it.

Now that I was starting to get a bit of a following to the Goats Milk soap, I tried to contact 80 acres to see if I could get some more, but for reasons unknown to me my requests kept going unanswered, so in looking elsewhere I found Aussie Soap Supplies have a Melt and Pour goats milk soap, made for sensitive skin so no SLS and other nasties that many people react to. So I got together a few family members and put in an order, luckily the soap which comes in a kg block is already soap shaped so it is just a matter of cutting a slice off and there you have a bar of soap.

Now I am quite happy with the Aussie Soap Supplies soap, nice soft lather and very gentle, I have no problems with using it on my face, and leaves your skin feeling nice and soft, but still clean, and others who have tried it also like it, the only problem is that with Aussie Soap Supplies you have to make a minimum order of $40 (1kg of melt and pour Goats Milk Soap is around $15) and then pay postage on top of that. Now that still works out a lot cheaper than a lot of what I managed to find on the Internet, but I don't like it when I find something that I like and then it stops being stocked or they change the recipe or as I have just found out they put thier prices up, so I started looking into making my own, after all if these ones I had found were handmade then why couldn't I handmake it?