The easy goat milk soap recipe is great for beginners. If you can get your hands on raw goat’s milk, you can use that. Otherwise, you can also use powdered or evaporated goat milk for this …
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You can make natural lye for soap making by combining hardwood ashes and water in a wooden barrel. This produces potassium hydroxide (KOH) lye which makes soft or …
The first step of making your own soap with lye is to measure the lye and water in two separate stainless steel bowls, using a kitchen scale. Then, combine them by pouring the lye into the water, stirring the mixture until the lye fully dissolves in the water. The lye-water liquid is caustic, so make sure not to touch it or breathe in any fumes.
To make handmade soap, all you need is fat, water, and lye. For the fat, you can use tallow, lard, or palm oil depending on what is most accessible to you. Some natural soap recipes use coconut oil or olive oil as well. Your water should be filtered and pure, and the lye you use should have 0-1% excess fat.
lye, 0-1% excess fat ( Note: Depending on the fats used the amount of lye will differ. Please run your recipe through a lye calculator for the amount of water and lye you will need .) ***I use locally-sourced, hand-rendered Arizona tallow for my basic lye soap and my recipe looks like this:
Soap is made by blending oils (like olive oil or coconut oil), a liquid (water, goat’s milk, etc.), and an alkali (lye). Lye is needed to convert oils into soap. Without it, you can stand there stirring until the cows mosey home and never have anything in your pot other than oil and water.