Re: Soap ingredients/butteroils

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Hi Kathleen

Yes you can, using both goat or cow butteroil, and it makes an

outstandingly nice, hard, mild soap in both cases, with plenty of

bubbles. However it smells of cheese, and in use leaves the small of

sour milk on the skin.

One fatty acid found primarily in the milk of ruminant mammals is

butyric acid (C4), and I suspect that the hydrolysis of butteroils

either results in sufficient free butyric acid to cause this smell, or

the saponification product sodium butyrate, itself smells.

I haven't tried or had access to the milk fats of a non-ruminant

mammal.

Rose

The London Soap Company

> Happy New Year to all!

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> Okay, this is probably the stupidest question that a human being

could ask on this site, but can anyone tell me if soap can be made

with butter? I don't mean a vegetable butter. I mean out of the

cow, churned cream, butter. I have searched the internet and looked

at scores of recipes - nothing, but also nothing saying that you

should never do that.

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> So please enlighten me. Thanks so very much.

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