i've already hit the soap-addict phase of wandering the supermarket aisles wondering what i can turn into soap... so when I was getting rice milk for my dairy-free DS, and spotted honey oat milk on the shelf.... yep, my brain kicked into gear.
Anyway, had a bash at it today. the milk/lye mixture turned poo brown so i ditched that and turned to plan b which i'm SURE i read over on SMF about mixing the lye with a minimum amount of water then adding the milk closer to trace. well the oils started to set immediately, then when i dumped the milk in to try to get the extra liquid to balance it out the whole thing siezed and ended up looking like curdled pumpkin soup. when i was scraping it out of the pot there was some gorgeous white soap-looking stuff in the bottom, but the slop that made up most of the pot was just GROSS! *sigh*
so... any advice for getting milk soaps to work?
Anyway, had a bash at it today. the milk/lye mixture turned poo brown so i ditched that and turned to plan b which i'm SURE i read over on SMF about mixing the lye with a minimum amount of water then adding the milk closer to trace. well the oils started to set immediately, then when i dumped the milk in to try to get the extra liquid to balance it out the whole thing siezed and ended up looking like curdled pumpkin soup. when i was scraping it out of the pot there was some gorgeous white soap-looking stuff in the bottom, but the slop that made up most of the pot was just GROSS! *sigh*
so... any advice for getting milk soaps to work?