I have in my earlier post mention about extra breastmilk in my freezer, and yes I have like 20 packs (each pack is around 12oz) at this moment and increasing..... that makes me seriously looking into ways to use up my breastmilk. Having packs of breastmilk filling up your freezer is no fun, very soon my freezer will be running out of space.
About a month ago, that was the time when I started to have breastmilk accumulating in my freezer (thanks to my daughter who decided not to like older refrigerated expressed breastmilk out of the sudden) and started looking into ways to turn breastmilk into other product(s). I have heard about breastmlk soap long ago from my husband's cute little niece telling me story about her mom's friend turning extra breastmilk into soaps and gifted one to her. But when I checked on the recipe; it's not as simple as I thought and I did not know where to get all those ingredients for soap making. One of the main ingredient needed will be lye, and handling/heating lye in my kitchen doesn't sound fun or easy at all. Safety would be my main concern (forgive me if I am wrong, some of you may tell me it's totally safe to handle lye). Then I found this website/blog (Lullabelle website and lullabellesoap.blogspot) which is selling homemade soaps and other related products as well as conducting soap making classes. The blogger also helps mothers to turn their breastmilk into breastmilk soap and that is totally what I was looking for!!So, I have contacted the blogger, who is a very nice lady, Patty; and we started to discuss on her charges (which was very clearly listed out in her blog/website) and the arrangement to hand over my breastmilk to her. Whoever is interested in homemade soap and other related products, I strongly recommend you to go and have a tour to explore her website as she has got so many type of homemade soaps and other related products. Trust me, you will have fun exploring.
So, I have sent 5 packs of breastmilk to Patty and that will make 5 batches of soaps (about 8 pieces per batch). And that was in early November. It has been a month since then and my soaps are still not ready yet (it takes a while for the curing) but I shall have them soon! I can't wait to see those cute soaps and use them on my babies!I will definitely share about it when I received my soaps.
Next post, my 1st DIY breastmilk lotion.
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