Raise your hand if you were at the Handcrafted Soapmaker’s Guild Conference in Portland, Oregon. Whoop de whoop! We hope you had a chance to see these soaps in person (and gave them a sniff). We used the Goat Milk Melt and Pour Soap base with Fresh Snow Fragrance Oil and Activated Charcoal for colorant. Oh, and how could I forget, we used our brand new Goat Milk Soap Mold that we designed just for you milk lovers. Got goat milk?
Ingredients
ONE: Melt 12 ounces of Goat Milk melt and pour soap in the microwave (in a heat safe container) on 30 second intervals. Once the soap is fully melted stir in .3 ounces of Fresh Snow Fragrance Oil. Mix well.
The mold you get from BB actually has 4 cavities, what you see above are the original prototypes that I was playing with in the soap lab.
TWO: Fill in the “goat milk” letters and border with soap using dropper or injector for accuracy and let the soap cool.
Hint: For the grey color, add 2 mini scoops of Activated Charcoal to 8 ounces of Goat Milk melt and pour. Stir well. Spritz with rubbing alcohol if you get any clumping.
THREE: Spritz the first layer of cooled soap with rubbing alcohol and pour your second layer of soap. Make sure that your second layer of soap has cooled down to at least 130 degrees before pouring (we don’t want to risk melting our perfect goat milk details).
Recently purchased this mold along with the MP Goat Milk. I have never worked with goat milk before but was wondering if it is normal for it to be so crumbly. When I was cutting it it just crumbled into bits and pieces and seemed very dry. Was expecting it to be like the regular MP soap base. Thanks
Hi Pat!
The Goat’s Milk M&P base should be like the rest of our bases, but when it gets frozen (in transit) it can get a bit crumbly. The best way to fix a crumbly M&P soap is to add liquid glycerin up to 10% to help add some moisture back in.
Liquid Glycerin: https://www.brambleberry.com/Glycerin-Liquid-P3982.aspx
I hope this helps! =)
-Becky with Bramble Berry
P.S. It is still totally okay to use for your M&P soaps.
Had a great time in Portland and am so glad I got to meet you & the Brambleberry crew in person! Milk soap is now on my “to do” list.
Can’t wait to hear how it turns out Teresa. You’ll have to share pictures with us when you do it!
P.S. I know everyone was so happy to meet you as well!
-Becky with Bramble Berry
**raised hand** Yup! Yup! I was there!!!!!!!
I had SO much fun! Thank you for everything you do to encourage and inspire us! The soaps were super cute! And the Bramble Berry staff (*waves* Hi Kat, Courtney and Amber!) was so friendly and fun!
I can’t wait to go to the conference next year… and am hoping to make a trip to Bellingham between now and then to come and play at Otion!
Hi Anna Marie
Just Loveeeeeeeeeeeeee your above soap molds – will you post to the UK – hope you can.
Just love your site and blog – great help to soapers everywhere. Keep up the good work.
Regards
Mae
*Hands raised*
Too much fun! See you next year Anne Marie. Bramble Berry throws great parties (casino night was my favourite, shhh don’t tell anyone) lol.
Soap fans from Trinidad & Tobago, Cecile in particular sends her love. 🙂