Goat Milk / Beef Tallow Soap
Recipe Instructions
Ingredients
12.85 g - (NaOH) Sodium Hydroxide (lye)
34.2 g - Goat Milk Soap (freeze)
Oils:
36.6 g - Beef Tallow
26 g - Virgin Coconut Oil
23 g - Olive Oil
4.4 g - Castor Oil
28.35 g - Essential Oil(s)
Optional:
Scrubbies - Poppy Seeds, Oatmeal, Spices
You’ll need a stick blender, a big stainless steel pot where everything gets mixed, and several glass containers for the liquids, lye, and heating the oils. Anchor measuring cups come in handy. You’ll need a digital scale because all the measures are weight, not volume. Essential oils or scents and any scrubbies for the bars.
Instructions:
- Heat your oils and pour them into the stainless steel pot. The temp should be about 115 F
- SLOWLY add the lye to the liquid. The lye will heat up your liquid. (If you use milk, use frozen milk. Add small amounts of lye stirring constantly or you’ll burn the milk.)
- The oils and lye/liquid should both be at the same temperature, anywhere between 100-110F.
- With your stick blender already running in the oil, slowly add the lye/liquid mix.
- Keep stick blending till you get a custard like texture. Add any essential oils and/or scrubbies you are using.
- Once blended and custard like, stop the stick blender and slowly drag it on the surface if it leaves a trace, it’s finished.
- Pour the “yellow custard” into the lined woodbox
- Set a sheet of freezer paper on top of the custard.
- Stick it in a proofing box (turned off oven, turned off fridge, cooler) have a towel below and on top of the wood box. It will cure and the temp will rise.
- After 48 hours you can take it out and cut the bars.
- Bars need to cure for 6 weeks.
* You should use rubber gloves when blending and handling the lye and lye/liquid mix. Safety glasses too (I just wear my regular ones, but have splattered the soap custard in my face). When you make the lye/liquid mix, you may want to wear a face mask and make sure the windows are open. It smells VERY strong and can be irritating. *
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Soap Properties
Highlighted gray ranges represent recommended ranges for each property.
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INS: 160.88 (ideal)
iodine: 46.25 (ideal)
Calculated Values for Oils and Preferences
| Superfat % | 5% |
| Saturated | 44.32 Gram(s) |
| Mono-Unsaturated | 36.64 Gram(s) |
| Poly-Unsaturated | 4.46 Gram(s) |
| Saturated:Unsaturated Ratio | 48.11:51.89 |
| Lye concentration | 100% |
| Weight Unit | Gram(s) |
| Soap type | solid |
Fatty Acid Profile
| Oleic | 36.31% |
| Linoleic | 4.34% |
| Linolenic | 0.61% |
| Ricinoleic | 4.40% |
| Lauric | 14.16% |
| Myristic | 7.24% |
| Palmitic | 16.73% |
| Stearic | 11.12% |
Recommended Additive Amounts
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For Advanced Soapmakers
| Sodium Lactate (60%)
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| Recommended Essential/Fragrance Oil | 3.94 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Ascorbic Acid
| 0.90 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Ascorbic Acid for A.A. | NaOH: 0.18 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Lactic Acid
| 0.67 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Extra Lye to Neutralize Lactic Acid for L.A. | NaOH: 0.40 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Tetrasodium EDTA
| 0.69 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Sodium Citrate
| 1.17 - 3.51 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Potassium Citrate
| 1.44 - 4.32 Gram(s) | ||||||
| Rosemary Oleoresin (ROE)
| 0.04 - 0.05 Gram(s) | ||||||
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Citric Acid Powder (anhydrous) |
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Extra Lye to Neutralize Citric Acid Powder for C.A. |
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