Buttermilk powder
Milk soap from a powder instead of liquid milk.
Opens the calculator’s starter recipe, 1000 g of oils, with this additive at the dose it fills in, ready to change.
What it is
Dried buttermilk, sold as a powder; sugar is its largest part.
USDA FoodData Central primary source
How much
- 4 tbsp per cup of the water filled in From Nature With Love supplier or guide
The calculator fills in 4 tbsp per cup of the water: 31 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: into the oils.
- Also used: as the lye liquid, at light trace.
- Stir it in as it is.
Lovin Soap supplier or guide
What it does to the recipe
- 2.97 % is water, taken off the recipe’s water.
- 5.78 % is fat, which stays in the bar as extra superfat.
- 49 % is sugar, which heats the batch.
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Worth knowing
- Caution: Hot lye scorches it: it darkens and can smell burnt or of ammonia. Keep it cold, and keep the soap cool so it does not gel. From Nature With Love supplier or guide
- Use it within 6 months. From Nature With Love supplier or guide
Spoons and drops
- 1 tsp ≈ 2.17 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 6.5 g
- 1 cup ≈ 120 g
USDA FoodData Central primary source
INCI name
Buttermilk Powder
Guides that discuss it
Sources
Lovin Soap, lemon buttermilk soap: buttermilk powder into the melted oils, stick-blended smooth.
From Nature With Love, milk in soap: "4 tablespoons of milk powder per cup of liquid. Milk powders can be doubled to 8 tablespoons".
From Nature With Love, milk powders: a paste added "at light trace"; reconstituted milk "will need to be chilled before combining with the lye".
From Nature With Love, storing milk powders: "we recommend using all milk powders within six months".