Goats Milk Soapmaking: How to make natural cold process Goat Milk soap with Lavender Essential Oil

Today we are showing you how we create one of our favourite handmade soaps, a simple, natural, Goats Milk soap scented with pure Lavender essential oil.

We will be using the cold process method and showing you how we incorporate the milk into our lye water solution in a way that ensures it does not scorch or burn.

Goat's milk is a fantastic addition to soap and we personally find that it helps to create a really mild, gentle soap. I sometimes suffer with sensitive skin and when I do, my Goat's Milk soap is my personal go to bar (but note that we cannot make any claims that it is beneficial for sensitive skin as to do so would be classed as making cosmetic claims, which is not allowed in teh UK without proper testing).

It is a good idea to have some prior knowledge of cold process soap making before attempting to create milk soaps as they are a little trickier to get right than regular soaps, however, with a little practice and careful checks on things like temperature they can be really satisfying to create.

If you wish to have a go at this design, you will need the following ingredients (the weights given below will give enough batter to fill one of the standard 5lb loaf moulds that we use in this video):

218g Sodium Hydroxide
218g Water
218g Frozen Goats Milk
680g Olive Oil
198g Sweet Almond Oil
114g Castor Oil
368g Coconut Oil
150g Shea Butter
76g Cocoa Butter
40g Lavender Essential Oil
0.4g Ultramarine Violet Oxide Powder

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