This is part three of the natural soap making for beginners series.
Simple coconut milk soap recipe.
When you measure out your liquids by weight you should have half coconut milk ice cubes half liquid coconut milk.
I wouldn t try making soap without it.
Again this is what i love about soap making the ability to be.
Put the lye in a large stainless steel pitcher or bowl and then add the well chilled coconut milk.
You ve also learned about the equipment you need to make soap and safety precautions.
At this point you will notice a chemical reaction take place.
This recipe also includes a fair amount of coconut oil and makes an absolutely wonderful soap that i just adore.
While i m using coconut milk you can use pretty much any milk you can think of.
Honey in any soap naturally benefits skin thanks to its antibacterial properties that can also brighten up a dull complexion.
For this tutorial we re going to use the following recipe.
Carefully add the ice cubes to the lye and coconut milk mixture.
This soap recipe is so simple that it only requires four main ingredients including a goat s milk melt and pour base raw honey soap colorant and fragrance.
9 oz 255 g milk.
This recipe is for a naturally moisturizing goats milk and honey soap from page 90 of the natural soapmaking book for beginners goats milk contains natural vitamins that help to nourish skin and honey is a natural antimicrobial that helps to make a creamy bubbly soap.
I use gram measurement because i feel it is most accurate.
Basic milk soap recipe.
Goats milk and honey soap recipe.
Gather all of the ingredients you need and pre measure them.
For a most charming milk and honey soap use a honeycomb mold.
4 3 oz 122 g lye sodium hydroxide optional.
30 recipes magazine subscription 5 issues for 5 creamy canned coconut milk is a great storecupboard ingredient to cook with.
Spiced with cinnamon nutmeg.
In the old days of guess and gosh sometimes soap would have too much lye in it and was very hard on skin using the digital scale measure out your distilled water and pour it into your high sided stainless steel pot.
It is palm free vegan friendly.
Feel free to adjust as necessary.
If you don t have powdered coconut milk you can swap coconut milk for the water in this recipe.
22 oz 624 g olive oil 71 8 oz 227 g coconut oil 26 1 oz 28 g castor oil 3.
Now it s time to get to.
Coconut chai traybake this simple traybake is inspired by one of our favourite brews chai.
Start by freezing half a can of coconut milk in an ice cube tray the night before.
Liquid lye portion.
Get the lemongrass and coconut milk soap recipe formatted for print with approximate ingredient costs and appropriate inci listings by downloading the recipe below.
1 1 2 tsp sodium lactate to help harden soap oils portion 31 ounces total.
The lemongrass and coconut milk soap recipe featured in this tutorial is a modern soapmaking original.
It uses a 7 superfat and a 33 lye solution strength.
Use it in bakes and desserts or to cool and mellow spicy curries.
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