How to make milk soaps -- two ways

1. Intro to Milk Soap Class: Hello, Welcome to my class. This class I am going to teach you two different ways to make a milk soap. So this will be doing a cold process soap. One of the methods we'll be using a fresh milk that we are going to freeze. And then the other method we'll be using these coconut milk powder or goat milk powder. Two different ways to make a milk soap. 2. Freezing your milk: The first way I'm going to show you how to make them milk soap is by using fresh milk. You can use fresh milk or you can use canned milk. Just make sure it's unsweetened and doesn't have anything else added to it. So just milk. I use canned. But you can also just use milk that you get in the grocery store in the refrigerator section. So the first thing you're gonna do is make ice cubes out of the milk. I'm going to clean these up a little bit and pop them into the freezer for a couple hours to freeze. 3. Making soap with liquid milk: For this first method, we're going to use frozen milk. You are going to just take your recipe and replace all of your water with the frozen milk. If you need a recipe, I have a beginner Skillshare class that I share a really great recipe. I will also leave this recipe that I'm using today in the PDF for this class. But this recipe will work with any recipe that you are comfortable with. You are just going to take your water amount and substitute it with frozen milk. My recipe, my recipe calls for nine ounces of water, so I'm gonna do nine ounces of ice cubes. I'm going to 0 up my scale and measure my life. This recipe calls for 4.56 ounces of lie. I'm going to pour that slowly over this milk and it's going to melt my ice cubes. You will see as I stir this, that this is going to start to mount. Another thing you should have on hand if you are doing this method is an ice bath. I have this ready in case I need to put this whole thing into here. Bird using ice cubes because if it gets too hot, it can scorch and kind of burn. And we don't want to use that in our soap. The ice cubes help. And then also putting the whole thing in an ice bath at this starts heating up too much. While this continues to mouth, I'm going to make my oils and get those already and you can just do that the same as you always do. You're going to want to stir your lime mixture every few minutes. This color is okay if it starts getting darker, orange is when you'd want to stick it into an ice bath. See, all of those ice cubes are melted. Perfect. Before I mix my milk in with my lie, I'm going to get everything else already. My mold, my fragrance, colorant. I'm coloring my soap today with tangerine Dream from Mad micas. It's one of my favorite oranges. This is kaolin clay. I add this to every batch. It's really great at helping with central retention. And also just makes the texture of your bar really nice. Okay, So if you are making this and you notice that you are aligned mixture has any sort of clumps in it. If you can see anything in it, you're going to want to strain it, put it over your oils while you pour your lie in case you have any lie that didn't dissolve into your milk? I don't see anything in mind, so I'm not going to strain it, but they are both between 8090 degrees. Another thing with milk soap is if you try to mix this together much hotter, if you'd like to soap more like 110 to 120, it will, it will be fine. You just might get a crack in the top of your soap as it's OpenOffice. So I suggest keeping a little bit cooler with a milk soap. So 80 to 90 degrees is my sweet spot. So I'm going to go ahead and add my milk line mixture. It's pretty fixed. I'm going to add it carefully. Again. I also haven't added my sent yet. I'm going to wait and add that at the end. Depending on the milk you use, it won't always be this thick. Sometimes it's still pretty runny like irregular by water. I'm going to stick blended in until I get to a light to medium trace. This has been, I like to hamster my fragrance today I'm using this a bath. Very secrecy. Sprite, bergamot. Smells great. You're gonna cover. Leave it covered for 24 to 48 hours. 4. Making soap with powdered milk: Now I am going to show you one more way to do that, which is actually my preferred way of making a milk soap. I'm going to just use a milk powder instead of freezing the milk into ice cubes. So we're going to just make soap like normal. We're going to just use distilled water with our lie. And then I will show you how and when to add some milk powder. At this point, I'm still waiting for my live water to cool down a little bit and I am going to show you how to add the milk. So I use kaolin clay and every batch I make and I like to stick blended in. I am going to stick blend my kaolin clay and my coconut milk and at the same time. So I add about two tablespoons of kaolin clay to a two pound batch. I'm going to add one tablespoon of coconut milk to this two pound batch. I won't usually measure. I just eyeball it. So about a tablespoon. Go ahead and stick blend that in so there's no clumps left. I am keeping this batch all one color. I'm using eight green from Mad micas. It's called three olive martini. It's a beautiful green. I'm going to go ahead and stick blend that in right now as well. Okay. I am going to go ahead and mix together My Lai and my oils. Everything is below a 100 degrees. So even though we just use a powdered milk, that milk still has natural sugars in it. So it's still going to want to speed things up a little bit. It's also going to have a tendency to overheat once you pour it in the mold. So I would suggest for sure below a 100 degrees shoot for the 80 to 90 degree mark again, just because it's in milk soap and we're dealing with some sugar. I'm going to stick blend until a light to medium trace. I'm going to go ahead and hand stir in my fragrance. I am using another one from Aztec today. This one is called cantaloupe. And Lily. Once again, I'm going to cover and I'm going to leave it for 24 to 48 hours. 5. Troubleshooting & overheating: Another thing to note about milk soap, you should actually come and take a peek at it after an hour or two. Sometimes this milk heats up your soap so that you get a little crack in the middle. A way to avoid that is by insulating it less. Either use a box and you can prop it up a little bit, a little bit more cool air gets to it. You should for sure always cover it just to prevent soda ash or anything landing in your soap. But especially with milk so up you don't need to put a blanket over this. You don't need to put a heating pad under it. It should be just fine. But if you do see a crack starting to form, you can try to get a little bit more cool air to it. And really only for another hour or two. And then you could cover it again all the way. 6. Cut & cure: After you've waited 24 hours, wait two days. If you can wait that long, you can unmute them. You can cut and cure like normal four to six weeks on a shelf. Just one more thing to note is that sometimes especially this one where we use the liquid milk, it can smell a little bit different the first couple of days. But don't worry if you give it a couple more days after that, you won't be able to smell. It's almost like residual milk smell. But I do promise that goes away. Here's the soap made with milk powder. They both make a really, really nice bar of soap. Some of the benefits of using milk is it, since it has the sugars in it, it will get a little bit more bubbly. The lather will be nice and bubbly and fluffy. There's some skin benefits. I hope you try it both ways and figure out the way you like best.