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Sometimes I like to play Cleopatra in my bathtub…did you know that a little goat milk on your skin will make it smooth like silk? It is easier than you would think to make your own goat milk soap; you will find below my top 3 goat milk soap recipes, I hope you enjoy them!
You know something’s got to be really good when a legendry beauty queen of yore literally used to bathe in it. Yes, the queen of Egypt really was onto something when she took baths in goat milk “to preserve her beauty and youth”.
While, of course, we can’t afford to be so excessive in our indulgences (read: bathtubs of goat milk are out of budget), we can still benefit from the wondrous properties goat milk has to offer. An easy way to do that would be by using goat milk soap.
So, what exactly is the science behind goat milk that makes it so amazing? Goat milk is full of alpha-hydroxy and caprylic acids as well as natural emollients, vitamins, and triglycerides. All of these work together to soothe, clean and moisturize skin down to its deepest layers. With the boatload of benefits that it offers, goat milk soap is a cheap and all-natural alternative to the far more expensive and abrasive skincare products in the market.
Goat’s milk contains natural emollients, vitamins, and triglycerides, as well as capric-caprylic triglyceride which calms, moisturizes and rejuvenates sensitive, dry, and combination skin.
DIY Goat Milk Soap Recipes
Making your own goat milk soap is a piece of cake and costs only a fraction of what it would if you bought it from the store. For your convenience, we’ve listed three ways you could go about making your very own goat milk soap bars. Happy reading!
1. The easy way : Melt and Pour Goat Milk Soap recipe
I’ve made soap before from scratch but I am not a big fan of the lye toxic fumes, so if your nose is like mine, a “little drama queen”, I’ve got an easy solution for you to make soap so read on!
All you need to do is buy an organic goat milk soap melt and pour base on amazon for example. Just make sure to read the ingredients so they are indeed natural and organic.
Then all you need to do is melt and pour the soap base, add natural colorant if desired, a little extra moisturizer if desired and then pour the mixture into the silicone containers!
It’s super fun to play with spices like cinnamon to create colors. You can also add some loofah, orange peel, sugar, Himalayan salts or grounded coffee to exfoliate….The possibilities are endless!
Melt and Pour Organic Goat Milk Soap recipe with Himalayan salts
You can avoid the hassle that comes from making your own lye solution by buying organic goat milk soap melt and pour base from Amazon. This base has been made from distilled and deodorized glycerin, organic coconut oil and goat’s milk. What makes this recipe amazing are the carrier oils (organic jojoba or almond oil), Himalayan salts, frankincense oil and sweet orange extract that make this mixture a power-house!
Himalayan salts boost hydration and exfoliate the skin while the carrier oils soothe the skin. If you have dry skin that flakes, frankincense oil will be an added charm! Sweet orange extract floods the skin with Vitamin C, which helps in clearing the complexion – making it an all-rounder recipe for all your skin concerns.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of melt and pour organic soap base with goat milk cut them in cubes so they can melt faster
- a double boileror an aluminium bowl placed into a pan of water
- 3 tablespoons of organic jojoba oil or organic almond oil
- Himalayan salts
- 20 drops of Sweet orange 5 drops of all spice eo and 10 drops of frankincense essential oils (or any essential oils of your choice - total max 30 drops)
Instructions
- How to make goat milk soap with a melt and pour base:
- Cut the melt and pour soap base into small cubes so they melt faster
- Add them to your double boiler on low to medium heat (basically a aluminium recipient in a pan of warm water)
- Continue steering until the soap base is melted
- Once melted, add the jojoba or almond oil, mix well. You could also substitute with any carrier oil of your choice.
- Add essential oils if desired, mix well.
- Put a little bit of Himalayan salts at the bottom of the mold
- Pour in the silicone mold.
- Spray pure alcohol on top of the soap to get rid of the bubbles if any
- Add the Himalayan salt on top of the soaps while the soap is still liquid
- Let dry for 24h hours before un-molding. Voila, its ready to use!
2. Goat Milk Soap Recipe Using fresh Goats Milk
Amanda from Lovingsoap.com kindly agreed to share her goat’s milk soap recipe using fresh goat milk. Thank you Amanda and shootout to your nonprofit organization http://www.lovinsoapproject.org. The Lovin’ Soap Project works to improve the lives of women through education and artisan soap making! What a beautiful idea!
Amanda shares with us a great trick: to use frozen goat milk so the lye solution does not overheat the milk. Overheating milk will turn it dark and she says : ” When the soap in the mold overheats you can get all kinds of issues including mushrooming, separation, cracking or other issues. ”
If you are vegan, you could use coconut or almond milk instead.
For this recipe, it’s recommended that you use frozen milk instead of liquid. The reason being that with liquid milk, when you add the hot lye solution, there’s a chance you’ll end up overheating the milk.
To avoid this, it’s safer to use frozen milk instead. This incredible recipe contains all the powerful oils including coconut, avocado, castor, olive, rice bran, sweet almond, along with shea butter for added hydration.
Coconut, olive and avocado oils consist of fatty acids that boost hydration and protect the skin from external factors such as harmful bacteria. Rice bran oil, on the other hand, reduces pigmentation and evens out the skin tone.
Castor oil has anti-aging properties and sweet almond oil prevents UV damage.
Shea butter helps promote healing and prevents itchy, dry, flaky skin – perfect for all my dry skin girls out there!
Fresh Goat Milk Soap Recipe:
- Coconut oil – 20 oz
- Olive oil – 20 oz
- Rice bran oil – 5 oz
- Avocado oil – 5 oz
- Castor oil – 4 oz
- Shea butter – 5 oz
- Sweet Almond oil 5 oz
- Goat’s milk 18 oz
- Lye – 9 oz
Get to work and see the full recipe here!
3/ Oat Goat Milk Soap Recipe
James from Little Seed Farm is sharing this awesome oat goat milk soap recipe with us, what a delight for dry skin in the winter! Did you know that oats were used by the Egyptians and Arabs to beautify their skins?
Oats contains polysaccharides that will help fight dull and flaky skin! It is also a great moisturizer and has wonderful anti-inflammatory properties to relieve skin itchiness.
You will need to scale for this goat milk soap recipe and actually for soap making you should really get in a kitchen scale (this one is only $12!) as this can prevent you from bad soap making batches!
It contains coconut and olive oil along with some powdered oats. Oats contain a high amount of skin-boosting antioxidants that promote healing and increase hydration. Coconut and olive oils both contain potent fatty acids that heal the skin from within and boost its texture.
Here are the ingredients of the Oatmeal Goat’s Milk Soap
- 16 oz frozen goat’s milk, broken into chunks (freezing the milk helps keep the heat from the lye/liquid reaction from burning the milk sugars)
- 15 oz coconut oil
- 30 oz olive oil
- 6.4 oz lye
- 1/4 cup oats (ground in food processor to a powder) a lined mold
Word of caution when making goat milk soap recipe soap from scratch from James: ***Wear safety goggles, dish gloves, long sleeved shirt, jeans, socks and shoes while making soap to protect your skin from eventual splashes of the lye solution. Keep a bottle of white vinegar and a paper towel to apply it within case some of the lye solutions splashes on you (the acid from the vinegar helps neutralize the alkaline lye).***
To be honest Amanda and James really inspired me to get the courage to try to making soap from scratch again. I think I will try to make a batch of their wonderful goat milk soap recipe this summer when I can do this outside on the balcony…
Does Goat Milk Soap Lighten the Skin?
Recent studies have given scientific backing to the age old claim that goat milk can be used for skin lightening. If used over time, it provides significant skin brightening effects, while moisturizing, exfoliating and rejuvenating the skin. So if you’re looking for a skin brightening solution that comes without the added damage of harsh chemicals, goat milk soap might be your safest bet.
Is Goat Milk Soap Good for Eczema?
If you or a loved one are suffering from eczema, you’ll be happy to know that goat milk soup just might be the solution to your skin woes. Goat milk has healing properties for skin conditions like eczema, rosacea, psoriasis and general skin irritation and helps strengthen the skin barrier. You’ll find thousands of testimonials from relieved individuals on the internet about how goat’s milk soap helped alleviate their symptoms and provided some measure of relief, even when no other remedy seemed to work.
Best Organic Goat Milk
Goat milk is best only when it is organic. When human-made compounds are added into the milk, it loses its efficacy. That is why, in order to reap all its benefits, it is important to find and use pure organic goat milk for all the skin products and recipes. You can find organic goat milk on Amazon – the one I recommend is the New Zealand Full Cream Goat Milk Powder, which is 100% natural. It is completely antibiotic, hormone and GMO free, which is why I use it for all my goat milk soap recipes!
How Much Does it Cost to Make Goat’s Milk Soap at Home?
Here’s a cost breakdown for you to see exactly how cheap it is to make your own goat milk soap at home:
Using oils and canned goat’s milk from Wal-Mart and lye from Amazon, a batch typically costs:
- Olive oil (.21 ¢/oz x 22 oz) = $4.62
- Coconut oil (.25 ¢/oz x 8 oz) = $2.00
- Goat’s Milk, 1/2 can = $1.49
- Lye (.56 ¢/oz x 4.2 oz) = $2.35
Total Ingredients for 1 Batch = $10.46
7 Giftable Bars Cost $1.49 each
Does Goat Milk Soap Kill Germs?
Directly put, goat milk soap doesn’t have antibacterial properties. This means that it doesn’t actively kill the germs on your hands. But then, most soaps don’t. Like any other regular soap, goat milk soap simply allows the water to remove the germs from your hands and send them down the drain.
Where to Buy Natural Goat Milk Soap?
But for those of you, who’s too busy to whip out your own batch of soaps, fret not, for there are amazing brands out there as well. A personal favorite is this one. It comes with no fragrance and is made with fresh and 100% natural Canadian Goat milk. Have a nice soap making journey, y’all!
And that’s a wrap! You can make a huge batch of soaps out of only a few ingredients, making it the perfect DIY gift for your friends and family.
Happy soap making!
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Could I add shea butter to the melt and pour base receipe to give it more moisture.
Hi. I am using melt and pour goat base. I want to use castor oil and coconut oil. Do you have a recipe for it.
Thank u
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Not at the moment but I will put this on my list 🙂
WOW ! looks really delicious !! very nice Recipe, Thanks for sharing
Hi. This will probably be my first cold process adventure. Yayy! Can some other oils be substituted for castor oil and rice bran oil? I am wondering what properties these have that you chose them.
Thanks!
Not sure if you ever received a response to this, but I was just offered some fresh goats milk today and an going to try this recipe. I don’t have rice bran oil either, but I looked into it and you can substitute olive oil.
do you have a recipe for soft or liquid goat milk soap. i make the bars but my daughter wants some liquid soap. but all the videos i have found uses the graded soap in the hot water and that doesn’t work. please if you have one it would help alot. she love the soap for her face for her breakouts. thank you
I personally have not make liquid soap, but a coworker of mine–who makes homemade bar soaps– told me that if you want to make liquid soap, you must use POTASSIUM hydroxide for liquid soap recipes. Bar soaps use SODIUM hydroxide. That explains the difference in the final texture–bar vs liquid. Hope that helps. Sorry, I don’t know where to purchase that, but she purchases off of websites that sell soap-making materials.
I have one block of goats milk and one block of glycerin,can I mix and pour together in a loaf? Have no idea I am very new bought from Amazon and want also to use a sage color and light pink,I haven’t bought coloring since there’s clay and little bottle colors I don’t want bleeding, I would like something natural,not using lye and wonder about herb colors dont know how to get pink? I would like to give to many homeless as well as hoping to find out how to raise funds for a family member Large amount then go on to help others with late Lyme’s disease,hopefully,with Gods help I will be able to help others. I am looking for dried rose buds to put one in for the homeless as well. Thank you for any suggestions,Thank you for your time ,may God richly bless you with all your help Amanda! Sis
I know you asked these questions a while ago but I didn’t see any response so I thought I would give you some suggestions. As far as mixing the 2 types of soap, I don’t know but you could layer them, that would look really nice. For natural colors, you could use a little beet juice to get pink (or more if you want red) and spinach juice for the green. If you grate a little bit of a beet on the fine side of a grater, you can squeeze enough juice for coloring the soap. I would use a small piece of cheese cloth to squeeze the juice. Same idea with the spinach, chop some up and squeeze some juice out or put a cup or so into your blender or food processor and grind it up and strain or squeeze out the juice. I hope this helps!
awesome recipes. i am new and used the mp recipe i added. swt alm and jojoba oils used cherry alm eo. first time making it and i sold out! my next batch will be oatmeal. i am planning to geind it up very fine and top with whole oats.I am also planning on adding pumpkin seeds to the first batch i made. complete with warnings. caN i use clay in goats milk mp soap?
I was thinking to try the first one, using the melt and pour base. Is it safe to use on babies? or shall it be maybe without the essential oil? thanks
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for babies, I would not use essential oils.
Hi, newbie here.
With the oat goat milk soap (using lye and fresh goat milk), can I add honey to it? If so, how much?
Thank you very much!
Can I add Raw goats milk to she butter soap base? If so, how much?
Want for my grandsons eczema. He’s so little and his body is covered in rashes, I’d like to get him some relief from all the itching and clear it up..
Thank you, God Bless!
Can I use oatmeal in the goats milk melt and pour instead of Himalayan salt?
Hey, would like to make a fascial scrub using goats milk and coffee grounds, no lye please, can you please provide recipe, TY
Would like to make a coffee, goats milk soap without lye, will you please provide a recipe. I am a beginner. TY for your assistance.
Soap requires lye–or it’s cannot be made into soap.
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not if you use melt and pour method which has already gone through the saponification process.
The saponification process used lye. Soap isn’t soap without lye somewhere down the line.
I’m curious if using first milk or colostrum milk will be more beneficial in soaps than regular milk? I have some colostrum frozen, but don’t want to use it if that might cause the soap to be “off”
Well, I just made 2 batches, one with your recipe but I used cinnamon instead of All spice. The second batch has 20 drops of lavender and 10 drops of geranium. My next batch will have rose, lavender. This 24 hour wait is testing my patience.
🙂 Thank you! Has been fun so far
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@Girija, nice thanks for sharing – are you on the facebook private group? https://www.facebook.com/groups/organicbeautyrecipescommunity/
Would love you to share the photos if you can 🙂
Dear Eve,
Thanks very much for your recipes.
I’ve made some soap bars using melt and pour soap base. Can I include goats milk while making it. I couldn’t get goats milk melt and pour base,hence would like to try with normal organic melt and pour soap base. Kindly advise.Thank you very much.
Hello I am a new soap maker and I’m trying to make my own goat milk base soap I have clear base soap and will like to add my goat milk can you help with measurements and can I even do this?
hi,how r u eve…urs recipes r too good n simple that i also want to make oatmeal goat milk soap…plz tell me which olive oil can b used in this recipe..i mean extra virgin olive oil or 100% pure olive oil or promace olive oil….plz guide me thanks
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Hello! You can use extra virgin olive oil. Have fun!
Hello, I was wondering if I add say an oz(or best measurement) of an essential oil to the fresh goat milk recipe do I have to change the amount of the other ingredients? Also, would a lemon/eucalyptus soap be a bad choice?
Thank you
Author
Hi Kristen, typically, for a dilution of 2%, you should add 12 drops of essential oil for 1 oz of carrier oil or finished product. So for the fresh goat milk recipe of 3.4 oz soap, use 40 drops of essential oils.
Eucalyptus is a very good choice but I would not use lemon on the skin as it is photo-sensitive.
Hi,
I am very new to soap making, I am researching at the moment..
I am scared of using lye, so I thought I would start with the melt and pour, but I would like to add fresh natural ingredient, like carrots, turmeric, oat, honey..
Is that possible?
Thanks you, Antonella
Author
Hi antonella,
If you use fresh ingredients, they need to be dried otherwise it would mold in the soap. Dried tumeric, dried oat flakes would work.
How long will the melt and pour soap stay fresh after making. I have a craft fair in October but prepare all my items months in advance and how should i package it. Will plastic bag work after wrapping in tissue paper? TY for an awesome site.
Author
The melt and pour can last at least a year or more, it depends on the shelf life of the melt and pour soap base you are using!
I am very new to making soap. Are there any scented oils that shouldn’t be used. I was reading about making sure the oils are body(skin)friendly. How do you tell the difference?
Author
Hi Neva,
Avoid all photosentive essential oils on skin, which mean they can cause burn on skin if you go under the skin: Angelica, Basil, Bergamot, Dill, Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Orange, Tangerine.
Do you have a printed book with all the receipes and I instructions ?
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HI terry, not yet but please subscribe to my newsletter so you will be the first to know when its out!
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Hi, I’m new to soap making and haven’t made my 1st batch yet. My question is using the melt & pour method, is it 2 cups of solid base or 2 cups total of liquid base after it’s melted. since you mention measurements and precisely how to melt the base I was wondering.
Author
Hi Donna, its two cups of solid base cut into cubes.
I made the melt and pour and the soap base started to ball up in a lump like play dough and started to set before I could get it in the mould. Did I heat the base too quickly or overheat it.
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HI Julie, did you use a double boiler to heat the soap base? I would try to reheat it on low heat with a double boiler until it melts again.
Hi everyone! I tried this basic recipe but added cherry powdered jello, dried hibiscus blooms and peppermint essential oil- holy cow. Talk about beautiful with a soft scent! I think next time I will add a little jojoba or coconut oil for a little more moisture though. Thanks for the recipe, im addicted!
Is melt and pour goat millk base soap the same as glycerine melt and pour goat soap milk?
So I just made this….its setting….it looks like my coconut oil (carrier oil) is all surfaced the top….is this normal? I did the melt and pour method
Author
Hi Kelley, this is weird, how did it turn out in the end? maybe you used too much coconut oil.
Hi my name is Connie I make my own candles, but now want to learn how to make soap from home, can you help with simple instructions please
Author
HI connie, did you check the melt and pour recipe? it’s as easy as it gets.
Hello . . . I use the first recipe with the soap base and I did not add a carrier oil such as JObama or almond. The reason I didn’t was because there was lots of oils in the soap base so I assume that was enough. Did I make a mistake?
Author
HI Lisa, how did your soap turn out? You don’t really have to add the carrier oils but it will provide extra moisture!
How much melt and pour goats milk soap base is 2 cups? The link you included is 5 lbs of the soap base. How would I measure 2 cups from that?
Do I need to use the same type of mold as you did? I have a wood loaf mold that I used for another type of soap. Can I use that?
Author
Hi Gittel,
you need to cut the soap base into small cubes and put it in a recipient where you can measure the amount – you need 2 cups of it. any mold would work, have fun!
Thanks!
Hi Eve I am a beginning novice at making essential oils and soaps and I have my first batch of lavendar essential oil from my garden. I read in the comments above that you dont want to use more than 10% of essential oil in your soaps does that include any mineral oil or almond oil that would use in extraction process?
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Hi Jules, how did you make your lavender essential oil? essential oil comes from the distillation of the plant and is not mixed with any other carrier oil (almond oil) – you need to have a special equipment to make essential oil.
I think what you made at home is lavender infused almond oil which is not the same as essential oil.
Do you know approximately how many bars the first recipe can make? I’m trying to determine how much goat’s milk soap to order. Thank you!
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Hi Charity, This makes about 5 soap bars medium size!
How many drops of Essiential oils would you put into the melt and pour recipe? I’m new at making soap, and don’t want to over due it, and are there suggested oils that you would use?
Thank you
Author
Hi Cheryl, I’ve updated the recipe including how many drops of essential oils are needed.
20 drops of Sweet orange, 5 drops of all spice eo and 10 drops of frankincense essential oils (or any essential oils of your choice – total max 30 drops)
Another good blend is 20 drops of lavender, 5 drops of rose geranium and 10 drops of frankincense essential oils
hope this helps!
I would like to make this I want to add vanilla essential oil to one batch and cinimamin to another first can I add ground cinnamon or do I need oil 2nd what is the amount I need to add and will it throw the other proportions off
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Hi Dolores, you can add ground cinnamon, it will add a natural brown color to your soap but not any smell. Use not more than 1/8 of a teaspoon of cinnamon powder per LB of soap. If you add too much it can become scratchy.
If you are looking for the smell of cinnamon, use cinnamon essential oil but respect the max 1% dilution as it can become a skin sensitizer. Hope this helps!
This is Used as the first step in the Enema Cleaning proses as the Doctor prescribed for Me to take. Mix up to a mint 16 oz of warm clean not tape home water.
Thank you so much for sharing our Goat Milk Recipe and instructions! I loved reading the other recipes as well. Blessings!
-Amanda
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Hi amanda, Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated 🙂
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Thanks so much Amanda 🙂