Pamper Your Skin With
Goat Milk Soaps

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Goat Milk Soaps immediately bring to mind images of a beautiful Cleopatra immersed in decadent milk baths sprinkled with rose petals. Right from ancient times milk has been treated with great respect as a beauty aid. Milk and its derivatives have been used as cleansers, moisturizers and toners.

What Makes It So Good? Goat Milk Soaps are extremely beneficial for the skin. Goats milk is comprised of amino acids and vitamins A and B that nourish the skin. It also contains other elements like calcium, minerals, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus, which make dry skin soft and smooth. These soaps act as natural emollients.

Another major benefit is that the pH levels of goat milk are close to those of the human skin. This makes the soap almost a natural body cleanser. Since Goat Milk Soaps are so mild and nourishing they are often prescribed by dermatologists for patients suffering from skin conditions like eczemas and allergies.

Making Your Own Goat Milk Soaps

Goat Milk Soaps are often made in combination with essential oils like olive, coconut and almond. The gentle rejuvenating properties of goat milk combines with the nourishing oils and results in a truly blissful bathing experience. Here is a recipe to make your own goat milk soap and treat your skin.

Materials:

3 pints of goat milk, Red devil lye – 12 ounces, lard – 2 kgs, glycerine – 2 ounces, borax – 2T, Honey – one-third cup.

Process:

1. Use a stainless steel pot and pour ice-cold goat milk into it.

2. Add the lye to it VERY slowly and keep stirring the mixture constantly. Lye will cause the milk to heat up really fast. If you add the lye fast then it can cause the milk to curdle.

3. The mixture will become orange and may curdle a bit but that’s ok. Add the honey to this mixture and let it reach a temperature of 850 F.

4. Heat the lard to 900 F. Add it to the mixture and keep stirring.

5. Add the borax and glycerine while stirring.

6. You can use a hand held electric blender to stir the mixture. The stronger the stirring the faster the soap will trace. Vigorous hand stirring requires at least 20 minutes for the mixture to trace while stirring with the blender can cause it to trace in just 10 minutes.

7. To check if the solution has traced dribble a bit of the solution across the top surface of the mixture. If it leaves a faint pattern before sinking then the solution has traced.

8. Once the solution traces, pour the mixture into molds lined with plastic.

9. Cover with a warm blanket overnight and by morning you should be ready to cut your first goat milk soap bars. Use a fishing line to cut evenly.

10. Let the soaps cure for at least 45 days before you use them.

Variations:

- Instead of using honey you can mix rose water, lavender essence or any other essence that pleases your senses.

Thus, making your own soaps with goats milk is not at all difficult. It’s easy, fun and gives you a bath product that will make your skin glow.