First, warm lard on lowest setting on stove. Measure lye and set aside. Pour milk into a bowl, and slowly add lye stirring with a wooden spoon. Continue to stir lye milk mixture, while watching oil, making sure to remove from heat as soon as it is liquid. Slowly pour oil into mixture, stirring constantly until mixture traces. Add scents at trace, and pour into prepared molds.
Let soap set in mold, covered for 24 hrs. Let cure for 3 weeks.
By making this small batch, I can make a couple of different scents each day and its easier to work with, when your also a mom, and work.
Basic soap recipe.
Basic Lotion Recipe.
10.5 oz goat milk
2 oz glycerin
16 oz coconut oil
.5 oz olive oil
2 oz emulsifying wax
.5 oz vitamin E oil
17.5 oz aloe vera gel
.5 oz germaben II
.5 oz fragrance
Heat milk and glycerin together until almost boiling. In seperate pan, melt all oils except vitamin E with E-wax. Slowly add milk/glycerin to oil/wax and mix with a wire whisk. Add vitamin E oil and whisk well. Cool slightly and add aloe vera gel. Whisk well. Cool to room temp and add germaben II and fragrance. Whisk well. Fill sterile bottles.
(I fill bottles while lotion is still alittle warm, so its easier to get into the bottles with less mess.)
This is a pretty simple lotion, easy to make, and good to begin with and practice with.
This page was last updated: May 24, 2009
soap and lotion ingredients
Goats milk
Lard
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)
Olive oil
Shea Butter
Fragrance
Other oils are also used for my own personal recipe and may vary, but you can be sure, every bar is gentle. Email me for a list of all oils used if needed for information concerning allergies.
Some lotions may contain cocoa butter, shea butter, olive oil, sweet almond oil, monoi de tahiti oil, hemp oil or grapeseed oil. If any of these added ingredients are in lotion, it will be listed in the ingredients on label.
SOAP
LOTION
This page was last updated: May 24, 2009
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