When I make handmade goat milk soap the first thing I do is measure out my goat milk and freeze it.    Adding sodium hydroxide (lye) to frozen goat helps to avoid the nasty stinky burning of the milk.  It is important to keep the milk as cold as possible so that it doesn’t burn and you get a nice creamy color to the soap once it sets up.   Stirring the lye into the milk while the pot is sitting in a cold water bath helps keep the milk from heating up too much.   As the milk heats up it changes from cream to yellow to orange.   You want to avoid the deep yellow to orange color.    Last week I made some Raspberry Mint goat milk soap and took some photos of the process.

Frozen Goat Milk and Solidified Fats and Oils

Melted Fats and Oils

Stirring lye into the Frozen Goat Milk

Blending Goat Milk Lye Solution into the Melted Oils

Finished and poured in the mold!  This is a batch of Raspberry Mint goat milk soap.  I don’t like my milk soaps to gel so they just sit in the mold with no insulation until ready to cut into bars. 

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