Well, I am going to be making goat milk soap within the next few days. I kind of have to since I am going to be writing an article about it. I had looked online about a month ago to find an easy recipe, but I didn't really find anything. I found one site that listed several recipes, but they all looked far too complicated. So, I went to kerimae's blog seeing how she always has wisdom on this sort of thing, and found her soap post. She didn't use goat's milk for her soap so I asked her if she had one. She promptly replied and gave this one:
16 oz grated pure olive oil or castille soap
12 oz distilled water
2 oz powdered goat’s milk
1 oz cocoabutter
herbs and essential oil to preference
Ok, so my first thought was what is grated olive oil?? I use olive oil to cook with, but it was liquid, right? lol Wrong, kerimae said it is "a plain olive oil bar of soap (try the "natural soaps" section of the store or something similar) and then grate THAT (like with a cheese grater)." Well, fiddle-dee-dee, doesn't that sound dandy?
So my sister and I set to go out to the store to buy the supplies. We looked at walmart, thinking they would have what we needed (silly me), but they didn't. We spent 45minutes looking for pure olive oil. We then asked a lady if she knew where the molds were... "uh, uh, maybe back there by the gizmos?". Then we decided to look for the castille soap, but couldn't. We asked another lady.... "maybe it's by the soap?". Man, these people have no idea what is where in the store they work in.
We gave up on finding the olive oil or castille soap. We looked for cocobutter, and of course they didn't have plain cocobutter. We did find one that was almost nothing but cocobutter. Amanda and I decided to go over to Kroger to see if they had pure olive oil or castille soap, and by golly they had castille soap. They had peppermint, almond, and lavender.... and I got the almond because it had the weaker scent. As we got out to the van I started looking at the bottle of castille soap. It had a bunch of garbage on it, and something about mohammad. That soap is evil... but mom said to just pray over it and pray whatever soap I make out of it will bless someone.
Anyway I have not attempted to make the soap yet, but I am going to. It seems like it's going to be easy and fun. Hopefully I won't mess anything as I am bound to. |
• Monday, November 5, 2007 at 02:32 - very good post, Jocelyn
I am sure you will do just fine, and all you do is blessed by God. I sure hope we can start usingthis milk for something else...
They are goat-piggies!
Love Mom