📌 How to Make Spa-Like Cold Process Goat’s Milk Soap | Natural Colorants & Essential Oils
📌 How to Make Cold Process Goat’s Milk Soap | Natural Colorants & Essential Oils
In this video, I’m sharing a step-by-step tutorial on how to make cold process goat’s milk soap! 🌿 This batch features all-natural colorants—indigo powder for a beautiful blue hue and pink French clay for a soft blush tone. It’s scented with a refreshing and grounding blend of lavender, frankincense, and eucalyptus essential oils.
I’ll walk you through the entire process, from mixing oils and lye to pouring, cutting, stamping, and steaming the bars to remove soda ash for a smooth, polished finish. Plus, we’ll be topping the bars with Pink Himalayan Salt for a beautiful, spa-like touch!
Whether you’re new to soap making or looking for a fresh, natural recipe, this video has everything you need!
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Video:
✅ How to naturally color soap with indigo powder & pink clay
✅ The perfect blend of lavender, frankincense, and eucalyptus essential oils
✅ How to cut, stamp, and steam your bars for a professional look
Let me know in the comments—have you used natural colorants in soap before? What’s your favorite essential oil blend for soap making? 👇
📜 Goat’s Milk Cold Process Soap Recipe
All measurements in grams
Distilled Water: 226g
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye): 151g
Coconut Oil: 247g
Shea Butter: 225g
Castor Oil: 56g
Olive Oil: 506g
Grapeseed Oil: 90g
Goat’s Milk Powder: 1 tbsp
Indigo Powder: ½ tsp
Pink French Clay: ½ tsp
Lavender Essential Oil: 20g
Frankincense Essential Oil: 18g
Eucalyptus Essential Oil: 18g
Bergamot Essential Oil: 5g
Pink Himalayan Salt (for topping)
Instructions:
1. Slowly add lye to distilled water and stir until dissolved. Let cool to 90-100 degrees F.
2. Weigh out the solid butters (shea butter and coconut oil) and melt in short bursts in the microwave, stirring between each. You can also do this over a stove.
3. Measure liquid oils into a bowl. Take a couple of table spoons of this oil mixture and put in another container. Add in pink clay Do this a second time for the indigo powder. Mix both thoroughly and set aside.
4. Add the liquid oils in step #3 above to the melted solid butters. Let cool to 90-100 degrees F.
5. Add in the lye/water mixture. Pour the lye/water mixture over a strainer while pouring. Stick blend.
5. Measure out essential oils in a small jar and add in goats milk power. Blend/mix in using hand spatula.
6. Pour approx. 1/3 batter into the pink clay bowl, a 1/3 batter into the indigo bowl and leave 1/3 as-is. Mix. You can stick blend more at this point if you want the batter to thicken, but not necessary.
7. Rotate pouring the three bowls of soap batter into the soap molds.
9. Using a stick, spatula, spoon or knife, make swirls using a figure-eight patern.
10. Top your soap in whatever texture you prefer and sprinkle with pink Himalayan salts.
11. Spray soap tops lightly with rubbing alcohol.
12. Let soap cure over night for approx. 18-24 hours before cutting.
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