Cucumber Milk Soap

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This has a nice light aroma if not scented but is wonderful with a Cucumber

Melon FO if you like. :-)

Cucumber Milk Soap

3 oz Shea Butter

3 oz Avocado Oil

12 oz Coconut Oil

12 oz Olive Oil

8 oz Palm Oil

5.23 oz Sodium Hydroxide (lye) Superfat Value 8%

6 oz. macerated Cucumber skin and all

8 oz. Milk of choice

Blend the milk and maturated cucumber together and chill or freeze till it is

semi-solid. Add lye to this till it is completely dissolved. This will take a

while because the mixture will start out very cold, so keep stirring lye in till

it is completely incorporated. Warm the oils till they are around 130° or so,

then add the lye mixture and stir till trace and mold.

This is nice as a CP soap, but is a wonderful base soap also for Handmilled soap

and adding a little vegetable glycerin, a few tsp. and some Evening Primrose Oil

and Jojoba, about a tsp of each. I recommend that you recalculate to make it

with less superfatting when making it in the Handmilling method and use more of

the added special oils of your choice. Enjoy!!!!

Below you will find some info from my soapmaking book about how to make a milk

using other ingredients if you wish not to use animal milks.

Making Milks with other ingredients

You can use other things like Oatmeal, Almonds, Soybean, etc. to make milks for

your soaps. Below is what I have done to make a couple of different milks for

my soaps.

For making Oatmeal or Almond Milk you take approximately 1/4 to 1/2 cup of

Oatmeal or Almonds per about 16 oz. of warmed distilled water let them set for

several minutes to soak up the water a bit. Place them in a blender and blend

well so there are no hard bits left. If you wish to add this as your only milk

in your soap, make enough to meet the amount that you need for the milk phase of

your soap and add the lye to the water phase only. I like to add this to my

milk that I am using in my formula, so I make sure that I weigh out the Goats

Milk or other milk before adding the Oatmeal or Almond Milk and then make sure

that it weighs what I need it to for what I need for my soap formula. I also

make sure that I stir the Oatmeal or Almond Milk well before adding any to the

milk, so that any of the settled Oatmeal or Almond will be incoroprated into the

milk. This can also be strained, pressing out as much of the milk as you can if

you wish, but does make a nice exfoliation for the soap if you are needing that.

You can freeze your Oatmeal or Almond Milk for later use in ice cube trays and

after it is frozen, pop them out and place them into a freezer baggie. Just

thaw what you need later. You can also do that with any milk.

You can also make Coconut Milk with fresh Coconut or unsweetened flakes. The

fresh Coconut you will have to drain the water on the inside out and this can be

used later to blend the coconut together if you like. Opening the Coconut can

be a pickle and there are many ways to do it. First punch a hole in one of the

eyes and drain the water from the inside of the Coconut. Then one way to break

the Coconut is to break it open with a hammer by cracking it all around till it

gives way. Or to take it and throw it on concrete to open it. I saw a TV

program once where someone said they were always told to blow on the Coconut all

the way around in the place that they wanted it to open and then throw it on a

hard surface and it should crack open right where they wanted it too. Give it a

try, you never know it might just work.

When you get it opened you will have to cut out the Coconut and place it in the

blender. With the unsweetened flake coconut you will only have to place it in

the blender. Add enough distilled water to cover the Coconut. Blend well till

it is a good mush. Add small amounts of distilled water if the mixture if not

moving well in the blender. This will insure that you get a good mashing of

the Coconut. The flake Coconut will blend down easier then the fresh chunks.

After blending strain and press out the milk. You can then use some of the

Coconut mush in the soap if you wish to add some exfoliation to the soap. You

can also use it in conjunction with other milks if you like. Coconut Milk will

add to the lather of the soap also, since it is the source of Coconut oil and

that is one of the oils that adds lather to soaps. It will not add to the aroma

of the soap though. That would be nice if it did. You can also concentrate

this by gently cooking off some of the water if you wish and then freezing it as

well in ice cube trays.

By Rita Scheu

TLC Soaps and Sundries

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