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Milk Soap Recipe Using Heavy or Whipping Cream

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Cream Slush Thickening Up
glob of lye and heavy cream

Glob of lye and heavy cream

David Fisher
Here is one part where using the heavy cream will be somewhat different than goat's milk. Because the fat content of heavy cream is so much higher than goat's milk (36% vs. 4-6%) the fat in the milk is going to start to saponify and turn into soap in the lye pitcher. It's going to get very thick - more of a lye-cream glob rather than a slush like goat's milk.

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