Looking for an easy goat milk soap recipe? Look no further than this lavender soap! It smells incredible and feels positively luxurious on your skin.
Even better? It takes less than an hour to make 12 bars! This recipe is perfect for anyone – even if you are new to soap making. Whip up a batch and use it to pamper yourself or gift to friends.
The Benefits of this goat milk soap recipe
Before we dive into how to make this simple soap, I’d like to share the why behind it and the benefits of goat milk soap itself.
Let’s be honest: Motherhood can be an overwhelming and time-consuming role. The vast majority of us don’t have much time to think about taking care of ourselves. But this easy DIY soap is one of the best ways to indulge in a little at-home spa treatment!
Not only does using the soap give you some likely much-needed aromatherapy and pampering, but I found the process of making it to also be quite relaxing! There’s something satisfying about stirring up the ingredients and knowing you are making your own soap bars. It’s a pretty cool feeling!
So why goat milk? Goat milk is filled with properties that can help soften and moisturize the skin, especially if you have dry skin like I do.
This particular goat milk soap recipe is also very gentle on the skin, so it’s great for kids and adults alike.
While there are several scents that work well with a goat milk base, I opted for lavender. Lavender essential oil has calming properties that can help reduce stress and anxiety—and it just smells awesome!
It’s also my favorite essential oil because it can be used in so many ways. You can read about the benefits and uses of lavender oil here!
Supplies needed
Now that you know why this is a must-make recipe, let’s chat about what you’ll need to whip up a batch!
This is what you’ll need to make 12 bars. As you’ll see, there’s nothing difficult to work with here – no lye mixture or anything needed.
- 2 lb block of Goats Milk Glycerin Melt & Pour Soap Base
– this is enough for 12 bars - Silicone Mold
- Lavender Essential Oil
- Liquid Soap Colors – this is optional, but I think it adds something special to the soap recipe visually. You will need blue and red to make purple.
- Empty Eye Dropper Bottles with lids – used for mixing soap colors
- Dried Lavender Flowers
- Microwave Safe Measuring Cup w/ Spout
- Spatula
– this is optional, but I think it adds something special to the soap recipe visually. You will need blue and red to make purple.
– used for mixing soap colors
Plus, if you’d like to gift these soap bars, you may want to have some decorative tape, burlap, ribbon, or raffia to wrap them in.
Note: The ingredients and supplies may cost a little initially, but since you can reuse them over and over (aside from the soap base), you will save a lot of money in the long run!
Goat milk soap recipe
First, grab your supplies. Start with the soap base. It comes in a large block, but it cuts easily with a kitchen knife.
Slice the soap base into strips, then cubes, and place them inside the microwave-safe measuring cup.
Next, melt the soap in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring well in between to ensure that the soap is completely melted.
It took a minute and 30 seconds for each batch to 100% melt, but the timing depends on your microwave.
My glass measuring cup was only big enough to melt half of the soap at one time, so I ended up making 2 batches out of the 2 lbs of soap base.
Next, combine about 10 drops of red soap coloring and 10 drops of blue into an empty drop container and shake well. You now have purple coloring! Add 7 drops of the purple color to the melted soap and stir until the color is even throughout.
Then, add 15-20 drops of lavender essential oil and mix well.
Lastly, sprinkle in some dried lavender and give it a good stir.
Next, pour into the soap mold and let it sit for at least 45 minutes to cool. Once the bars are cooled and hardened, they are ready to use!
Bonus: Time to decorate! I found some burlap ribbon with lace and some purple raffia on clearance at Walmart. I thought that was the perfect combo to wrap these up and make them even more delightful as a gift. However, use whatever you want to wrap your bars as a personal touch. 🙂
If you decide to make your own, I’d love to see some pictures and hear about your experience! This is a very versatile goat milk soap recipe where you can add different scents and experiment with creating your own custom bar of organic soap!
More DIYs with lavender
- DIY Lavender Cream for the Most Restful Sleep Ever
- Lavender Honey Face Wash: 5 Minute Facial Cleaner
- Easy DIY Lavender Bath Bombs
- DIY Natural Lavender Milk Bath
Dawn Lopez says
Lavender Goat Milk Soap, what a great idea! Who doesn’t enjoy the smell of lavender? I think it’s great you can make 12 bars in just one hour. I’m definitely going to try this out. Thanks a bunch.
Sylvia says
Can you use fresh lavender in your soaps.. I have some growing and love the look of the flowers. I would like to place some in the first layer of clear glycerin soap then pour colored goats milk melt soap base with dried lavender mixed in. Would it cause the soap to rot?
Maura says
Sylvia – I would want to be sure your lavender flowers are dried first. If you use fresh, the petals will just turn brown and not look as nice as you want it too.
But you have a great resource to pull off dried lavender from your plants – ordering dried lavender off of amazon can be expensive!
Hannah says
Can I use a different coloring for the soap? Like the Mica powered stuff?
Debi- Lifestyle Blogger says
I don’t think I have ever heard of goat milk soap before. I do love anything with lavender in it. I think it would be fun to give this as gifts this holiday.
tammileetips says
I love making soaps and other beauty items. This sounds like an easy recipe to follow, I never thought to use goat milk in it before.
Lisa S. says
I have always wanted to make my own soap & this sounds very feasible! One question: where do you buy the Goats Milk Glycerine Soap Base? I’d love to make some! I’m so excited 🙂 thanks for sharing your recipe!
Maura says
Lisa – I ordered the goat’s milk soap base from Amazon. Check out the materials list in the post – the base is linked and takes you right to it on Amazon to order. 🙂
Sheri says
http://www.wholesalesuppliesplus.com/products/basic-goat-milk-soap
I’m buy the melt and pour shea butter because there is no detergent.
Laura H. says
How clever. I am definitely trying this. I love anything that takes an hour and is good for me personally. One of my best friends raises goats so sharing this with her since she is so creative and just a beautiful person. Thank you so much for turning me on to this. What great gifts people will get from me at Christmas time 🙂
Maura says
Great gifts indeed! I can’t wait to use the ones I made as gifts this year! It’s practical, handmade, healthy, and pretty! Perfect gifts!
dawn says
this is perfect for my mom. she has really dry skin and only can use natural soaps and products on her skin. thanks for sharing this.
Deb says
Hi Maura, Does the soap base have to be glycerin? I have goats milk soap base but it’s not glycerin. Thank you. Your soap looks Devine!
Maura says
Go ahead and use what soap base you have. Any melt and pour soap base will work with this!
Valdir Bernardo says
I have the bar of glycerin and the natural goat’s milk separated. In what percentage can I put together?
Maura says
I’ve personally never mixed glycerin with goat’s milk soap in this recipe. But the cool thing about melt and pour is that you can experiment – you can just mix them both together after you have them melted! Or you could layer your soap – melt the glycerin and fill the mold halfway. Then melt the goat’s milk and fill the rest of the mold with that.
Bridget says
What’s the shelf life? Does the dried lavender turn the soap a different color after a period of time?
Maura says
No the dried lavender doesn’t change the color of the soap – just the added soap colors do that. The shelf life I would say is long – at least a year. Bar soap around my house sits on the shelf longer than that and its fine.
Tricia W says
What is the best way to store these soaps? I am going to make a batch as a gift for a friend, but I would like to keep some as well.
Thank you for sharing, so excited to make these.
Maura says
They will store like any other bar soaps. I keep mine in a small rubbermaid container underneath my bathroom sinks.
Natalie says
Quick question – so you made two batches… I am curious as to the amounts of color, essential oils, etc that you added after melting the soap. Were the amounts you added to only ONE (or half) batch at a time or were those the total amounts for the entire two pounds of melted soap? I need to make some diy goat’s milk lavender soap today, so I hope I hear from you soon! But if not, I will just try your recipe next time. Sorry to bug you & thanks!
~Natalie~
Maura says
not bugging – happy to reply! 🙂
The amounts I gave are for 1lb of soap only – so the amounts are for one (or half) of the entire two lbs.
Hope your soap turns out fantastic!
Tricia says
Hi, I noticed that after a few weeks the lavender pedals dried out a bit a changed the color of the soap around it. Not sure what I did wrong = ( They look so pretty but I can’t gift them this way. Help!
Maura says
Yeah – my flowers dry out and change color a bit too – but it didn’t change the color around the soap. Did you use dried petals to begin with or fresh? It’s so difficult replicating the exact same product without using the exact same materials. I used dried lavender petals from my own garden – maybe a different lavender variety would change the color of the soap?? This is frustrating, I know. 🙁
If you aren’t happy with the look, you could leave the petals out of the next batch, or add some purple jojoba beads instead?
Tricia says
Hi Maura,
Yes I did use dried petals which I bought at Michael’s I should just grow and dry my own = ) Never heard of Jojoba beads but I will check it out – sound nice.
Until then I will leave the flowers out.
Thanks so much!!
Tracy says
I’m pretty new to making soap myself however I have read that depending on how you make your soap, cold pressed or hot, it can change the color of the petals. Hope that helped! I will be trying my first batch of goats milk soap today! I am going to add dried rose pedals and Lavender (2 different batches).
Kimberly S says
Just made this soap this evening. Came out great. Followed the recipe exactly and used the products from Amazon that were recommended except for the essential oil. I only use Young Living Essential Oils. Looks great! Thank you, thank you for this easy recipe. My sister and I have always wanted to make soap. Hope to experiment with different scents in the future!
Maura White says
Great to hear! Enjoy experimenting with different scents – it gets addicting. 😉
Sarah says
Do you need to dilute the essential oils before adding them in the soap mixture?
My essential oils say to dilute with a carrier oil before coming intocontact with the body.
Maura says
The soap itself is a carrier oil, so just by adding them to the soap, you actually are diluting them.
G n J Infinity Blends says
Ty for sharing. I have a business that I have liberty to create and infuse how I feel benefits best. My clients love this and I did do my presentation differently . Ty again ☺
Valdir Bernardo says
I have the bar of glycerin and the natural goat’s milk separated. In what percentage can I put together?
Valdir Bernardo says
I have the bar of glycerin and the natural goat’s milk separated. In what percentage can I put together?
Maxine Reierson says
so excited to find your recipe. could I layer and swirl with this recipe? first layer clear glycerin with dried lavender and purple coloring. Sprayed with alcohol, sprinkled dried lavender on top, sprayed again with alcohol, pouring goat milk mixed with lavender on top, sprayed again with alcohol and final purple glycerin layer on top swirling goat milk and purple glycerin. Topped with dried lavender? I’ve been watching so many youtubes. Have never made the soap before. So my question is, how many drops of lavender essential oil drops should I add to the pure glycerin and how many drops to the goat milk. I plan on using one lb. of each
Maura says
You can for sure layer – and depending on the soap coloring, you can surely try swirling. You don’t need alcohol in between the layers. And my only other suggestion is that with melt and pour, you want there to be a textures surface area before adding another layer. If you pour on a new layer of soap – you don’t want the bottom to be smooth, or you run the risk of the layers falling apart as the soap gets used. I better explain that over in this post here when I combine glycerin with goats milk in a vanilla orange version. http://happydealhappyday.com/easy-melt-pour-orange-creamsicle-scented-soap/ As for amount of essential oil – the more oil, the stronger the scent. So I’d add about 20 drops at least to each kind of soap before you pour it.
Sandra Velasquez says
how much dried lavender do you use?
Maura White says
About 2 tablespoons
Joan Molinaro says
I haven’t made any soap yet, will be soon. I wanted to know if I could use, lemon zest instead of lavender, or if you could use like tea ( like from a tea bag.) I am doing the lavender, but was trying to think of other nice smells to use.
Maura White says
dried tea would work. But if you are looking for scent – stick with the essential oils. Any of the “solids” are more for texture and look than they are for smell.
Joan Molinaro says
I just finished the lavender soap. It was easy, but I have to figure how to balance the dry lavender, oil and color, but I love it and it was fun. Will do this again very soon. A lot of soap gifts this Christmas. Thank you.
Maura White says
Glad you are enjoying – it really is fun!
Renee Bryant says
Love this. Are you adding the 15-20 drops of lavender to each pyrex? or was that total drops?
Maura says
15-20 to each pyrex!
Deidrah says
I would like to pour this into a large rectangular mold. How long should I let it sit to harden up before I try to cut it?
Erika says
It will take longer than a smaller mold, probably several hours or more. You might want to leave it overnight.
Samantha says
About how big were each of your bars?
Trying to budget how much melt & pour I am going to need to order. Thanks!
Maura says
Here are the dimensions Amazon gives of the mold I used: Mold Size: 11 x 10.1 x 1 inch. Cavity Size: 2.9 x 1.9 x 1 inch. Volume: 12 x 3 oz, Total 36 oz
Debbie Heath says
My dried lavender turns brown, is the soap base too hot?
Teresa Greer says
Can you make this recipe printable so I don’t have to copy & paste every step?
Erika says
Great idea, Teresa. I will do that. Thank you for the suggestion.
Nicole Ortiz says
Hi, can I also add shea butter to this mixture for the soap? If so, how much should I add? I bought the goat’s milk base, and also raw African shea butter from Amazon, but I was wondering if I can use both?? Or should it be one, or the other? I didn’t buy specifically shea butter “base,” it’s just raw shea butter, but the goats milk specifically says “base.” These are the links to what I already purchased:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWM8BFW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C4QBXA8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Kimberly says
This homemade goat soap recipe looks so easy to make and wonderful!
Megan says
I am making these as a shower favor and making them about 2 weeks ahead of time. How do you suggest storing them?
Erika says
You can store them in a small box or plastic container.
David says
Amazing ! I wish you would have the Video tutorial too. that would have been awesome. ty for these Recipes. I am trying one right now.
Erika says
Thanks, David!