Coconut Milk Soap Base Recipe

But basically any milk is worth experimenting with.

Coconut milk soap base recipe. Lemongrass and coconut milk soap recipe. Plus sometimes coconut milk is easier to come by since it comes in a can especially for people who do not have ready access to goats or other. I can imagine the high fat content of camel s milk being heavenly in a soap although it is expensive and more difficult to get hold of. When calculating a recipe with heavy cream it helps to keep in mind the fat content of the cream.

Coconut milk soap is the easiest to make and the creamiest of all the various milk soaps. You can make soap with any oil or combination of oils. If you substitute olive oil you will need to recalculate the recipe. Heavy cream has a lot more fat than other milk upwards of 30 36 vs.

This lemongrass and coconut milk soap recipe is sized for my bramble berry 10 silicone soap mold. Sadly the coconut milk scent doesn t carry through but coconut milk is still a lovely thing to have in soap. Since it s an additive used in small amounts like oatmeal honey poppy seeds etc it won t alter the overall recipe in any other way. 1 4 cup coconut oil.

You can resize it using a lye calculator for whichever mold works for you. The fat in the goat s milk doesn t throw the superfat off by very much but the heavy cream can. 4 5 in goat s milk. Great substitutions for coconut milk are cow s or goat s milk goat s milk in particular gives your soap an even creamier consistency.

The procedure for making this easy coconut milk soap recipe is pretty much the same as it for making any cold process soap the difference is in the ingredients. I was a little inspired by thai food in this tutorial and chose to use lemongrass ginger and coconut milk as the main components. Changing an oil may change the lye amount. My soap had cocoa butter and i used cream in it but you could really add vanilla bean to any soap recipe even the one in this post for milk soap.

Be sure to look at the superfat percent and change it to 20 or so for any soap this high in coconut oil then click on view print recipe. If i calculated my recipe normally with a 5 lye discount and used the heavy.