District #1 Folk School 

Adult Class: Milk Soap Making

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Saturday, August 10

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8:30 am to 12:30 pm

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Cost: $30 for class, $35 for materials

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At District #1 Schoolhouse

      110 N 2nd Street

      Mount Horeb, WI  53572

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About the Class and Materials

 

In this class, student will learn the basics of making natural soap from fresh milk.  Instruction will include how to mix the lye with the milk, when to add the lye mixture to fats and oils, and how to blend it all together to achieve the perfect consistency of soap.  You will also learn how to pour into molds and how to customize your soap with ideas and supplies for color, texture, or your personal essential oil scent of choice.  Students will learn about different properties of oils, fats and butters that can be used in soap making and why you would use them, about gelling you milk soap, and how to achieve color naturally from herbs, clays, plants, charcoal and more.  

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You will take home two pounds of raw soap (6-8 full sized bars of soap depending on how it is cut) to finish curing at home, and the instructions needed to start making your own soap at home.  In addition to the soap, you will go home with a reusable silicone mold in a wood box and recipe ideas for other variations.

Students will be required to wear rubber/plastic gloves and safety goggles. If you have personal preferences or sensitivities to certain gloves, please bring your own.

About the Instructor 

 

Janelle Holmstrom has been making goat milk soaps for nine years and lives with goats, chickens, ducks, cats, and a dog near Mount Horeb.