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Code for 'That's an Ugly Baby!'Ever since I joined CafeMom a year ago, I've learned about the many uses of breast milk. Aside from nourishing your baby, it can be used to cure her ailments (diaper rash, clogged tear ducts, eczema) and maybe even your dad's cancer. It can also be used to make ice cream and cheese. Now, I hear that breast milk can be used for something else: making soap.
You can find the instructions in the Making Breast Milk Soap video above.
What do you think? Would you try it?
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Comments (11)
That's just weird, IMO. I'm only interested in feeding my baby with my milk.
Weird but cool. Another good use for breastmilk in my personal opinion.
another good use for breast milk, yes....economical, yes ...but just entirely too much work for me...and there is no way i'm keeping lye in my lil apartement with a lil touchy one...lol
uhm.. I'm a soap maker and no.. I wouldnt, lol. I think there are better things to use it for.
oh my... ok this video scared the crap out of me, as a soap maker. #1.. you should never mix your lye in your sink in a dark, crowded dank kitchen without some windows open. #2. You should never EVER LEAN OVER your lye... it lets off vapors and can burn your skin. #3. The lye shouldnt be poured directly into the milk, you should disolve the lye in some cold water first, then add to the milk when the water/lye mix has cooled to 90* no matter WHAT kind of milk you are using and you should always make the milk into slush or ice cubes first.. or you will get the experience these girls did... it will turn orange.. it can burn.. it is unsafe.. and it smells. Curdled milk.. yum. #4. You cut it in 24 hours, if not it can get too hard to cut. So weird.
this video made me go "OMG" like 12 times. danger zone.
I think it is neat.. If I had the time and patience I would do it just for fun! hahaha Crazy!
What are the benefits?
I wont do it myself (greedy-grabby-try-to-eat-everything-1yr old + newborn) but if there really are benefits to using breast milk soap then i'll pay someone to do it for me (with my own milk ofcourse).
Spirited Tigress- the benefits to goats milk soap are that Goat's Milk contains lactic acid for alpha hydroxy skin rejuvenation. Its very moisturizing as well. Its good for sensitive skin, as well as psoriasis. The thing is.. in this video they used nothing but crisco as their oils.. usually handmade soaps contain things like olive oil, coconut oil, shea or cocoa butter, lanolin, sunflower, safflower, canola, sweet almond, apricot kernel, and mango butters. Those oils I mentioned are also good for the skin.
I think the IDEA of breastmilk soap is cool... but the poor recipe they used and the dangerous way they made their soap really left me on edge. yuck.
Breastmilk is also good to put on pimples, apply to cuts to speed healing, put in ears if u suspect an ear infection and it's the best cure for a sunburn I have ever used, pink eye treatment and more!!!
and here is a company that makes breastmilk pendents. you send in a couple oz and they put it in a resin in a necklace http://www.mysentimentexactlee.com/2009/01/hollydaydesigns-breastmilk-pendant.html