Timeline for Can I use a combination of milk and vegetable oil as fat source for soap making?
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 9:15 | comment | added | Elmy♦ | @DimitriosDesyllas Lye is the common name for the alkaline ingredient in soap making. It can denote different chemical substances that all have very similar properties. Mix oil and lye and you get soap, whether the lye is sodium hyperoxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or any other metal hydroxide isn't as important. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 8:26 | comment | added | Dimitrios Desyllas | Lye you mean the Sodium Hyperoxide right? | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 7:55 | comment | added | Elmy♦ | @DimitriosDesyllas If you use only a very small amount of milk, you can do that. If you want to use more, you either mix milk powder with the oils before adding the lye or you substitute water with liquid milk to dissolve the lye before mixing it with the oils. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 7:51 | vote | accept | Dimitrios Desyllas | ||
| Jul 20, 2021 at 7:50 | comment | added | Dimitrios Desyllas | So prepare the fat let react with the base and add any milk substance later right? | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:46 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @DimitriosDesyllas, condensed milk has less water, but the same ratio of fat to casein. It makes a messy starting point. You need to use an accurate mix of alkali to fat to saponify all the fat and react all of the alkali so the soap isn't caustic on your skin. Milk or milk products complicate figuring that out. People sometimes use or include milk products for the supposed skin benefits. But if your goal is just the aroma, it won't help with that. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:32 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Beat me to the answer. This mostly covers what I would have written. A few supplementary comments: 1. If you want the fat to come from milk fat, you need to use butter, which contains about 80% fat (still substantially adulterated from pure oil, and affects the mix; cream is only about 35% fat, so a messy starting point). 2. Milk powder is non-fat, mostly casein. The lye converts that to casein paint or glue (mixed with the soap from the fat). The same thing happens to the non-fat components of milk. 3. To reiterate, you won't get a milk fragrance or color. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:31 | comment | added | Dimitrios Desyllas | My guideline will be Nile Red's video: youtube.com/watch?v=uMBeXHnWhsE but with more oil and instead of coconut Oil I was thinking to use condensed milk. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 18:08 | history | edited | Allison C | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:19 | history | answered | Elmy♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |