{"id":7867,"date":"2012-03-25T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2018-12-26T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:02:28","slug":"soap-challenge-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/soap-challenge-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Soap Challenge: Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get started on this week’s challenge, I really have to tell you how impressed I am with the participants’ in-the-pot swirls from last week! If you haven’t seen them yet, please go check them out<\/a>! If you are still working on last week’s challenge, the link-up will be open through Friday. (Did you see we are up to 81 participants now?)<\/p>\n

Now for this week’s challenge: milk soap! The main thing you want to avoid is burning the milk with the lye. There are several different methods to choose from. If you want to make a soap with 100% milk for your lye solution, it will take a bit of prep work if you aren’t in the habit of making milk soaps. You will need to freeze the milk that you use for your soap ahead of time – either in ice cube trays, or even in a freezer ziplock bag. Lay it down flat in your freezer so that you end up with a frozen milk disc that will be easy to break up into chunks when you are ready to use it. Then you can add the lye directly to the frozen milk. Here’s how I do it with my fresh goat’s milk soaps:<\/p>\n