Oat milk (unsweetened)
Replaces some or all of the water.
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
Unsweetened oat milk as sold chilled, mostly water. Brands with added sugar heat the soap and can scorch it.
USDA FoodData Central primary source, Bramble Berry supplier or guide
How much
- up to 100 % of the water filled in Lovely Greens supplier or guide
The calculator fills in 100 % of the water: 312 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: as the lye liquid.
- Also used: into the oils, at light trace.
- Freeze it, and add the lye slowly.
Lovely Greens supplier or guide
What it does to the recipe
- 90.56 % is water, taken off the recipe’s water.
- 2.75 % is fat, which stays in the bar as extra superfat.
- 2.32 % is sugar, which heats the batch.
USDA FoodData Central primary source
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. Bramble Berry supplier or guide
- Danger Its sugars, heated above 84 °C with lye, can give off toxic carbon monoxide. Keep it cool and work where air moves. NOAA CAMEO Chemicals primary source
Spoons and drops
- 1 tsp ≈ 5.08 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 15.3 g
- 1 cup ≈ 244 g
USDA FoodData Central primary source
INCI name
CosIng has no single INCI name for it: label it by what it contains.
Guides that discuss it
Sources
USDA FoodData Central, food 2257046: Oat milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated.
Lovely Greens, oatmeal soap: oat milk "in place of some or all of the water called for in the recipe".
Bramble Berry, oat milk soap: oat milk with "added sugar, which can heat the soap and cause scorching".
NOAA CAMEO Chemicals, sodium hydroxide solution: "reducing sugars other than sucrose, when heated (above 84°C.), evolve toxic levels of carbon monoxide in the presence of alkalis".