All is not sunshine and roses at Great Cakes Soapworks – the batch of Red Rock Canyon soap that I made several weeks ago has bits of undissolved lye throughout. Ugh. It was so beautiful too! I re-created the batch I made last year, only this time I was ready for things to move fast, and I was able to swirl in the two colors without any problem:

Except, somehow I didn’t get the lye stirred into the goat’s milk very well. So frustrating!! The only way I know how to make a soap with fresh goat’s milk as 100% of the liquid is to freeze it into cubes, and add the lye directly to the frozen milk cubes. I’m not entirely sure, but it seems like the problem might be not stirring it well enough (or fast enough?) when I first pour the lye over the milk. I’ve had this problem before with goat’s milk soap, but never this bad. There are white spots on every. single. bar. If anyone has suggestions on how I could do this differently without scorching the milk, I’m all ears!

Meanwhile, Clean the World is about to receive another box of soap!