Whole milk 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 whole milk, sold as a powder, with the milk’s fat still in it.
USDA FoodData Central primary source
How much
- 2 tbsp per cup of the water filled in Handcrafted Soap (2002) primary source
The calculator fills in 2 tbsp per cup of the water: 19.1 g for the 1000 g of oils in its starter recipe.
When and how
- Usually: at light trace.
- Also used: as the lye liquid, into the oils.
- Make it into a paste with a little of the recipe’s water.
From Nature With Love supplier or guide
What it does to the recipe
- 2.47 % is water, taken off the recipe’s water.
- 26.71 % is fat, which stays in the bar as extra superfat.
- 38.42 % is sugar, which heats the batch.
USDA FoodData Central primary source
Worth knowing
- A book on milk soaps calls powdered milk a poor choice next to fresh whole milk. Makela, Milk-Based Soaps primary source
- Too much softens the bar. Browning, Natural Soapmaking primary source
Spoons and drops
- 1 tsp ≈ 2.67 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 8 g
- 1 cup ≈ 128 g
USDA FoodData Central primary source
INCI name
Whole Dry Milk
Guides that discuss it
Sources
From Nature With Love, milk powders: a paste added "at light trace"; reconstituted milk "will need to be chilled before combining with the lye".
Handcrafted Soap (North Light, 2002): aloe juice or cold, strong coffee in place of the distilled water; "2 tablespoons (30ml) of powdered goat milk for every 8 ounces (237ml) of water".
Casey Makela, Milk-Based Soaps (Storey, 1997): the lye into 3 pounds of cold milk, slowly, in a cold bath; cream "for either part or all of the milk", such a soap "considered superfatted because of the higher fat content"; "skim and powdered milk are poor choices".
Marie Browning, Natural Soapmaking (1999): "Powdered milk will soften the soap slightly, so do not use too much."