Here you’ll find an easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make breastmilk soap in only 5 minutes! Making your own soap is a great way to use up any extra milk you might have plus it’s gentle on baby’s skin.
No matter whether you’re an over-supplier or an under-supplier, every breastfeeding momma has the same fear: What if I run out of milk?
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So we pump and freeze and pump and freeze every drop until our babies wean and we realize we have a freezer full of milk. Now what?
Well, over the years I’ve come up with a few uses for surplus breast milk, such as giving a breast milk bath or making breast milk lotion, but today I’m going to show you how to make breast milk soap. Which is a great way to make beautiful soaps using your own milk as a fresh ingredient. You can even customize it to your heart’s desire by adding essential oils, honey and oatmeal.
(If you’re an experienced soap maker looking to make cold process soap using breast milk, scroll to the middle of the post to find the instructions. Everyone else, stick with me 😉
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Human breast milk is amazing – some even refer to it as liquid gold! It’s the perfect first food, but It’s also beneficial for baby’s sensitive skin and a number of skin conditions.
You might have heard of breast milk’s powerful immunological properties, but there are many more beneficial components found in breast milk. Things like proteins, amino acids, prebiotics, enzymes, antibodies, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals… the list goes on and there are still things that haven’t been studied yet.
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Breast milk soap is very nourishing and gentle on the skin since it contains many skin-loving components of breast milk, like fatty acids, enzymes, vitamins and minerals.
“Just put some breast milk on it” is probably the number one advice among nursing moms. With good reason: breast milk has been shown to be effective in treating infant eczema, can help alleviate pink eye, dry skin, diaper rash, cradle cap, and baby acne and can even reduce the risk of small cuts getting infected (Source: Medela)
If you’re planning to use oatmeal, add ¼ cup of old-fashioned oatmeal to a coffee grinder and blend until you have a fine powder.
Now, onto the soapmaking:
I know what you’re thinking now: Will all these wonderful enzymes, antibodies and the magic pixie dust make it through the soap making process? The answer is: no, they will probably not make it through the “lye monster”. Cold process soap undergoes a serious chemical process when oils are being mixed with lye that creates a PH environment where microbes (good and bad) can’t live.
The good news is: breast milk is still a great additive in soap, think cows or goats milk on steroids. It contains more fats and sugars than regular milk which contributes to a smooth creamy abundant lather. And it also has lots of vitamins (A,C,D and E) that are great for your skin.
This soap recipe is another variation of a Bastille soap. Meaning a soap that is made with 75% or more of olive oil, but not a Castille soap which contains 100% olive oil. As I mentioned in my Baby Bastille Soap Tutorial, I’m not a big fan of Castille soap – the lather feels slimy to me and I have no patience for the long cure time 😉
To give this soap a nice bubbly lather and hardness boost I added coconut oil at 20%. Coconut oil sometimes feels drying to some folks, but the high percentage of olive oil and breast milk in this recipe make this soap feel creamy and gentle.
In this tutorial I provide a soap recipe for you, but if you’d like to use breast milk (or any kind of milk) in another recipe you can. Simply follow the same steps that I will outline here.
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For this recipe we’re going to replace the entire water content of the soap with breast milk. In order to do that we’ll have to take some extra steps in order for the milk not to scorch when mixed in with the lye. You know when the milk starts to scorch when it turns a yellow color and gives off a strong ammonia smell.
2. Place frozen milk cubes in a medium sized container (plastic or stainless steal)
3. Place container in an ice bath
4. Measure lye into a small container
4. Little by little add lye to the frozen milk while continuously stirring. The more time you take with this the less the chance of scorching.
5. After the breast milk is completely melted stir for another minute to make sure the lye is completely dissolved
If this is the first time making cold process soap with lye, I suggest you go back and read up on lye safety, recommended equipment and how to make homemade soap.
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This recipe is superfatted at 5% and uses a lye concentration of 38%.
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This post was last modified on 03/11/2023 09:13
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