Break the Rules Soap
Cold Process Soap Recipe by Leila GainesPrint out a 4x6 recipe card

GOAL: The goal here was to have a 2-oil soap with outrageous lather and no-less outrageous skin pampering.

I also wanted to disprove for myself some of the various basic principles all soapmakers are told:

1) INS numbers should be within a certain range: This soap is wonderfully out of range.
2) You should balance your "hard" oils and your "soft" oils 50-50. Well, how does 98-2 grab you?
3) You should never have more than 30% coconut. Baloney.

So this is a break-the-rules soap. You won't be sorry you tried it!

Coconut Oil
Cocoa Butter
Frozen goats milk
NaOH
Fragrance oil

(While Pearberry is very well-behaved, it might hasten things a bit. If you are using the above proportions of liquid to lye, work quickly. If you prefer to work more slowly, add 150g of goat milk or water to your lye bath).

Notes on cocoa butter: Cocoa butter can form white streaks in soap (as well as food, incidently) unless it is properly tempered.

1. Melt your cocoa butter and hold at 130F for 20 minutes. Melt coconut oil. Cool all oils to 100F.
2. Break up chunks of goatmilk into your container, and place container in an icewater bath. Add your lye little by little, stirring constantly. You do not want to scorch the milk (which will turn orange and smell disgusting). You also want to keep things as cool as possible, hence the icebath. Keep temperature to about 90-95F
3. Quickly add lye solutions to cooled oils. Buzz with stickblender no more than 3 seconds, hand stir to very light trace. Add fragrance, stir quickly and pour into molds.
4. If you used above proportions of milk to lye, you should unmold no more than 8 hours after pouring. If you added more liquid, wait about 12 hours. In any event, unmold and cut as soon as it's cool. Do not insulate your mold.

While this soap is very hard very quickly, you won't be sorry to give it a good long cure.

Enjoy!