How gorgeous are these Goat milk soaps this is a Rosemary and Rose
and i'm going to show you how to make them today
Hi guys and welcome to Moat Cottage Homesteading, the small space homesteading channel.
These soaps aren't dangerous like making lye soap, they're really good for the beginner soap maker.
It's a fun, creative project and it's a great gift as well. When you're making melt and pour soap,
you want to have everything ready before you start, so i've got some 'Goat's Milk melt and
pour soap' in a saucepan. It's a thick heavy based saucepan and this is one that i only use for soap,
it's a craft one, it's not for food. I've got the essential oil that i want to be using and today
i'm using Rosemary. I'm using a tablespoon of coconut oil because i like coconut oil in my soap,
just a little bit, to give it an extra moisturizing when you're using the soap
and i have four tablespoons of dehydrated rose petals that i've ground up, these are a really old
heirloom variety of roses, so they have a really strong scent. I have my molds ready and i have
my pouring jug because you need to be able to pour them into the molds without spilling it everywhere
and i have a wooden chopping board on the table to protect the table from the hot pan,
when i bring it back off the heat, when i've melted the soap. So let's go and melt the soap
on a low heat on the stove top melt your melt and pour soap
once it's melted turn it off the heat and add your rose petals and your coconut oil
give that a mix in
you probably didn't expect it to go green did you
add your soap to the jug
make sure you don't splash any up because it's hot
and then add your essential oils
give that a mix in
smells great and then pour it into your clean moulds
now i just have to let them sit and not be tempted to touch them until they're completely hard.
It's been 16 hours and the soaps are nice and hard now and they're ready to pop out of the molds.
I love these silicone molds because you don't have to grease them with anything
and the soaps pop straight out
and my favorite mold shape is oval. I
really like the way the oval soap shape fits in your hand when you're using it,
but you can do whatever shape you like, that's the fun thing about this, you can mix it up with
different types of dried flowers and leaves, as well as the different pure essential oils. Now you
always want to be using a pure essential oil and be careful where you buy your essential oils from,
make sure it's from a reputable person or a reputable seller. These are really pretty
and if you're worried about the different herbs getting into your drain when you're using the
soap in the shower, because sometimes you're using bigger chunks of herbs and flowers, then
you can use these Sisal bags, they're made out of Agave plants, so they're all natural. I'll leave
the link in the description below if you want to check them out on my amazon site and thanks to
everyone who's been using my links with my amazon products because that's really helping to keep the
channel going and I really appreciate it. Thanks for watching, I'll see you in the next video