mothers milk soap by Casey Makela

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MOTHERSMILK SOAP

32 (4-ounce) bars

Recipe:

3 lbs. vegetable shortening

17 ounces dark olive oil

18 ounces Safflower oil

6 cups thawed breastmilk (you can use any amount of breastmilk you like and

substitute the rest, just make sure your total fluid volume reaches 6 cups).

12 ounces pure sodium hydroxide (lye - Red Devil brand works for me)

1 ounce Borax

2 TBS honey

1 ounce Essential oil? - optional

Ice Cubes

Tool List:

Stainless steel pans - wooden or stainless steel spoons, newspaper to cover

counter tops, candy thermometer, measuring cup, scale, blender.

***Wear Gloves and protective eye-wear when making soap...lye burns!!

****Use only stainless steel pans for making soap - DO NOT use aluminum!!

Melt the veg. shortening in a sauce pan (about 8 quart size)and add the oils.

Bring temp up slowly until the shortening is all melted. Don't over heat or

scorch the oils.

Plug your kitchen sink. Fill half way with water and add about 3 dozen ice

cubes.

Put thawed cold breastmilk in a sauce pan (about 3 quart size). Place the

sauce pan into the water. You *must* keep the milk cool when you add the lye

to it or the lye will burn it and make it unusable, not to mention real

stinky!

Slowly stir in the sodium hydroxide (lye) stirring constantly and

occasionally circulating the outer ice water. The lye is going to heat the

milk up as you stir it in. Avoid breathing the fumes by working in a well

ventilated area.

Adding the lye should take at least 5 minutes, any faster and you will

burnout your milk. If you accidentally splash any on yourself, rinse

immediately!

Once combined, continue to stir the milk/lye mixture for just a few more

minutes (3) and then remove from the water bath and set aside. You will

notice that the milk/lye mixture steadily becomes yellowish in color. That is

normal.

Add the honey and borax to your melted oil which should still be warm but not

hot (115 degrees or so).

Now, slowly and carefully pour the milk/lye mixture into the pan of oil. Stir

constantly until it is all mixed together.

This mixture must now be whipped in a blender (2/3's full at a time for

safety sake). Run the blender at whip speed for 60 seconds each time. Pour

off into a clean pan.

Repeat the blender process a second time. This is when you will add your

essential oils.

Once the mixture has been blended twice, it will be ready to pour into a mold

where it will saponify and be ready to cut after 24 hours.

A good mold can be made out of a cardboard box lined with plastic (coated

lightly with oil first) of about 16 " x18 " size.

I use extruded vinyl soap molds because they are heavy duty, reusable and you

just slice the soap into bars, no fuss.

**Make sure to set a few bars secretly aside for that someday when it could

make a touching " Treasured Memory Gift " maybe when your child is all grown

up. The soap will never go rancid (no matter what you may have read

elsewhere), it will only improve with age. Mothersmilk Soap has the unique

potential of becomming something progressively extra, special as the years

roll by. But that's just this mothers thought!

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6 CUPS OF BREASTMILK!!!! That's a lot! Somebody would have to be hooked up

to a pump a long time for 6 cups.

>From: Soapnshop@...

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>Subject: mothers milk soap by Casey Makela

>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:24:02 EST

>

>From: Soapnshop@...

>

>MOTHERSMILK SOAP

>32 (4-ounce) bars

>

>Recipe:

>

>3 lbs. vegetable shortening

>17 ounces dark olive oil

>18 ounces Safflower oil

>6 cups thawed breastmilk (you can use any amount of breastmilk you like and

>substitute the rest, just make sure your total fluid volume reaches 6

>cups).

>12 ounces pure sodium hydroxide (lye - Red Devil brand works for me)

>1 ounce Borax

>2 TBS honey

>1 ounce Essential oil? - optional

>

>Ice Cubes

>

>Tool List:

>

>Stainless steel pans - wooden or stainless steel spoons, newspaper to cover

>counter tops, candy thermometer, measuring cup, scale, blender.

>

>***Wear Gloves and protective eye-wear when making soap...lye burns!!

>****Use only stainless steel pans for making soap - DO NOT use aluminum!!

>

>Melt the veg. shortening in a sauce pan (about 8 quart size)and add the

>oils.

>Bring temp up slowly until the shortening is all melted. Don't over heat or

>scorch the oils.

>

>Plug your kitchen sink. Fill half way with water and add about 3 dozen ice

>cubes.

>

>Put thawed cold breastmilk in a sauce pan (about 3 quart size). Place the

>sauce pan into the water. You *must* keep the milk cool when you add the

>lye

>to it or the lye will burn it and make it unusable, not to mention real

>stinky!

>

>Slowly stir in the sodium hydroxide (lye) stirring constantly and

>occasionally circulating the outer ice water. The lye is going to heat the

>milk up as you stir it in. Avoid breathing the fumes by working in a well

>ventilated area.

>

>Adding the lye should take at least 5 minutes, any faster and you will

>burnout your milk. If you accidentally splash any on yourself, rinse

>immediately!

>

>Once combined, continue to stir the milk/lye mixture for just a few more

>minutes (3) and then remove from the water bath and set aside. You will

>notice that the milk/lye mixture steadily becomes yellowish in color. That

>is

>normal.

>

>Add the honey and borax to your melted oil which should still be warm but

>not

>hot (115 degrees or so).

>

>Now, slowly and carefully pour the milk/lye mixture into the pan of oil.

>Stir

>constantly until it is all mixed together.

>

>This mixture must now be whipped in a blender (2/3's full at a time for

>safety sake). Run the blender at whip speed for 60 seconds each time. Pour

>off into a clean pan.

>

>Repeat the blender process a second time. This is when you will add your

>essential oils.

>

>Once the mixture has been blended twice, it will be ready to pour into a

>mold

>where it will saponify and be ready to cut after 24 hours.

>

>A good mold can be made out of a cardboard box lined with plastic (coated

>lightly with oil first) of about 16 " x18 " size.

>

>I use extruded vinyl soap molds because they are heavy duty, reusable and

>you

>just slice the soap into bars, no fuss.

>

>**Make sure to set a few bars secretly aside for that someday when it could

>make a touching " Treasured Memory Gift " maybe when your child is all grown

>up. The soap will never go rancid (no matter what you may have read

>elsewhere), it will only improve with age. Mothersmilk Soap has the unique

>potential of becomming something progressively extra, special as the years

>roll by. But that's just this mothers thought!

>

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i cut the recipie down when i did it and used half bmilk and half water