RainySunday Ranch

Class Outline-

• Discuss safety, materials/tools, and basics of soap making

• Discuss mixing lye at 50/50 concentration.

• Discuss various methods of incorporating goat milk into cold process soap.

• Demonstrate making cold process goat milk soap (simple, no color, no fragrance) using personal room temperature method.

• Demonstrate making cold process goat milk soap with fragrance and color using personal room temperature method.

• Discuss characteristics of oils available and resources for more information.

• Create soap recipe using percentages of oils and provided guidelines.

• Use lye calculator to correctly formulate oil, water, milk, and lye quantities by weight.

• Participants make personal-size batch of soap from start to finish

  • Formulate recipe

  • Line molds

  • Weigh oils, goat milk, and lye solution

  • Melt oils

  • Prepare fragrances and colorants

  • Mix lye into oil, add goat milk

  • Combine color and fragrances

  • Pour soap into mold

  • Clean up

• Discuss curing time, show cure room, and demonstrate cutting a slab of soap

 

Class Includes-

• Discussion of safety, materials, process, options, and resources for cold process goat milk soap

• Protective gear to take home-goggles and gloves

• Handouts on safety, materials, process, oils, formulation/calculation, and resources for cold process goat milk soap

• Demonstration of making a lye solution, following safety guidelines, making both plain and scented/colored cold process goat milk soap

• Hands on experience creating a personal soap recipe, using a lye calculator, making a personal batch of soap (color and fragrance optional)

• Participants will take home their personal soap creation in a carry box, their handouts, their recipe, and the knowledge and experience to make more cold process goat milk soap on their own!

 

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