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Corrine
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 2764
Location: Washington State
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Becky,
Almond milk is available in some specialist/health stores, I would recommend you make it yourself - it's very easy.
I use about 1/4 cup of sliced/slivered almonds to approx. 2-3 cups of boiling water. Put the whole lot into a goblet blender and buzz it really well. You can do it with a stick blender but it takes a little longer.
Let it go cold and then strain it and use it as you would water.
Oat milk is easy too. I just eyeball it - around 1/2 cup of regular oatmeal to a quart of cold water. Mix the two together - I leave mine overnight in the fridge, stirring a couple of times).
Strain and use as you would water. Don't worry if the mixture thickens as you add the lye to it - just keep stirring.
The softened oatmeal is great in soap - I add it just before trace and let the stickblender chop it up a bit. It's less scratchy than regular oatmeal.
...c.
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reblyn
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 280
Location: Ohio's Dairy Country
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: almond milk |
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Thanks so much Corrine, I am on my way to being a seasoned soaper w/all your wonderful tips/advice/knowledge.
I live on a dairy farm, and milk is abundant. We grow soybeans too, I wonder if I could somehow make my own soy milk? I'll have to read up on it. It's so easy to buy though!
Cant wait to try the almond milk, almond is my favorite scent (and snack) and just knowing it was in the soap would make it sooooo much better. 
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Corrine
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 2764
Location: Washington State
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Becky - make friends with Google and it'll bring up lots of tips:
| Quote: | How to make soy milk?
It's very easy to make soy milk at home. If you make soy milk on a daily basis you might find a soy milk maker (or soy milk machine such as Soyajoy, Soylife, Miracle...) very helpful.
Step1: Ingredients
You need about 125 g whole soya beans to make 1 liter of soy milk.
Step2: Soaking and dehulling the soya beans
Clean the soya beans and soak them in water for 10 - 16 hours. Although not necessary, you can remove the hulls be kneading the soya beans and flushing the loose hulls with water. Removing the hulls makes the extraction process more efficient. An alternative is to crack the soya beans before soaking. The hulls come loose easily and can be washed away. When you use cracked soya beans you need less soaking time: 6 - 8 hours.
Step3: Heating the soya beans (optional)
Heating the soya beans will destroy enzymes which are responsible for the development of beany flavour. This heating can best be achieved by microwaving the wet soaked soya beans during 2 minutes.
Step4: Grinding the soya beans
Grind the soaked soya beans and 1 liter water in a blender. Sieve the mixture trough a cheese cloth and recover the soy milk. The insoluble material which remains on the sieve is called okara, and can be used as an ingredient for bread making or as cattle feed.
Step5: Boiling the soy milk
Heat the soy milk till boiling point and continue boiling for about 5 to 10 minutes. After cooling, the soy milk is ready and can be kept in the fridge for another 3 days.
Step6: Flavouring the soy milk (optional)
The soy milk can be drunk as such but taste can be improved by adding some salt (also cow milk contains a lot of salt).
With soy milk you can easily make your own fruit smoothie. Fruit smoothies are very healthy because they contain soy milk and a lot of fresh fruits. |
And here is the site I got it from - lots of good reading there. http://www.soymilkmaker.com/recipe.html It's got the recipe for rice and almond milk too.
Not only is this going to be a lot cheaper - it won't have any of the additives that commercial soy milks have.
...c.
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justjnet
Joined: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 49
Location: Wisconsin
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| Corrine, I made the veggie version of this soap in Jan. About 2 weeks ago I gave some to co-workers who's DH's both suffered from exema. Last week, one of the ladies said that she was going to try the soap, but DH had liked it so much that he took it with him on a business trip. . The second lady told me yesterday that her DH had said that he noticed an improvement 3 days after he started using it. My skin is sensitive & mature & I love it too . Many, many thanks for posting this recipe Corrine. You've made a lot of people happy. |
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djk17
Joined: 06 Jul 2008
Posts: 17
Location: Vienna
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:45 am Post subject: my latest favourite recipe! |
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Here's my favourite inexpensive all-veggie recipe ever! (so far, but I'm fickle tee hee). Needed a relatively cheap but excellent recipe, hence the absence of shea and cocoa butter etc. etc.
2% castor
28% coconut (72)
2% grapeseed
18% olive
40% palm
10% sunflower
NOTES:
5% superfatting
replace the water with oatmilk
add 1 tsp/pp syrup (boiled sugar in water, dissolved completely, let cool) at trace
this traces very very quickly (within 5-6 min. max), goes into full gel within about 15 minutes, and is silky smooth and rock hard (sounds like a contradiction, no? ) within a day. Colour (from the oat milk and syrup) is pale creamy yellow.
also--tons of big fat bubbles.
the stats:
hardness 46
cleansing 19
conditioning 50
bubbly 21
creamy 29
iodine 55
INS 159
Enjoy! would love feedback on this too, if anyone tries it out! |
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BKW
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: My favourite recipe |
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[quote="reblyn"] | Corrine wrote: | Most of you know that I can't handle coconut oil in soap (cept for my hands), so this is a recipe I made for me.
But when I got a few people to test it out for me, it quickly became a favourite and with the higher oleic number (40), it's especially suited to the mature, dry, sensitive skins.
25% PKO
20% Olive
15% Tallow
15% Lard
10% RBO
6% Safflower
5% Canola
4% Castor
If I'm doing it for me then I'll use a 1/4 to a 1/3 of my liquid as canned coconut cream. For selling I'll use some coconut or goat milk.
Enjoy.
Corrine |
I am new to soapmaking and was wondering if there is a place that I view what the letterings stand for? What is RBO? Does that stand for Rice Bran Oil?? Thanks
Betty |
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soapbuddy
Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 1019
Location: Palm Springs, CA
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BKW
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 2
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| soapbuddy wrote: | | RBO is rice bran oil. |
Where can I find Rice Bran Oil?
Betty |
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soapbuddy
Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 1019
Location: Palm Springs, CA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| BKW wrote: | | soapbuddy wrote: | | RBO is rice bran oil. |
Where can I find Rice Bran Oil?
Betty |
In what state or country are you located?
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