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Spiced Milk and Honey
Soap Recipe - Cold Process
48 ounces shortening
22 ounces coconut oil
16 ounces olive oil
24 oz. cold water
12 oz. lye crystals
Temperatures: around 100 degrees
After incorporating the lye solution with the oils, add:
12 oz. can evaporated milk, warmed (for lighter colored
soap with firmer texture, you can use only 6 oz. evaporated
milk and increase the water by 2-4 ounces)
1/4 cup honey, dissolved into milk (for a lighter color and
less tendency to separate, you can cut this back to 1 T.)
At light trace, mix in:
3/4 oz. cinnamon oil
1/2 oz. clove oil
The essential oils will accelerate trace, so be prepared
to quickly pour the soap when it starts to thicken. The milk
will turn color as you watch after being added. Maybe if it
had been cooler, it wouldn't have gotten quite so dark, but
the color goes well with the spices. In the future, I will
not insulate a batch like this until it begins to cool after
going through the "gel" stage. Rachael had a different
method for mixing her milk soap (on the Soaps Using Animal
Fats page) and you might prefer to do it that way. Other people
have used this method and it has worked fine...not sure what
I did, but glad to be able to use the soap in the end. It
will take longer to cure than some of the other batches, partly
because of the extra water added during remelt and because
of the milk content. At least, this is what I've read. Probably
only a matter of a couple of weeks more.
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