Get to know your soap(er) - March 2026
Okay ladies and gents, I’m going to start a once a month thing where I answer questions you may have about my product(s) or myself!
Send in your questions and I’ll do my best to answer them by including them in next months session! Lets begin:
Who are you?
- Im Kristin, and my husband behind the camera is Daniel. Together we’re the Waltizzos. It’s a merger of our last names from when we were seriously dating and wanted to have our first Christmas card together. The name really stuck.
What got you into soaping?
-Daniel showers. A lot. Anywhere from 2-3 times a day. He’s very active and in the oil field. “Normal” soap dries out his skin to the point he nearly scratches it off. During Covid I wanted to find a way to make our own so it would be better for his skin, and we thought it was cool we could choose whatever scents we wanted. I was also freshly postpartum with our first born and had too much milk that had thawed and was no longer consumable. Because I didn’t want to waste my precious milk, I started researching how to turn it into soap and have it shelf stable. (Note: None of my soap I sell has breastmilk in it. That illegal)
Breastmilk? In soap?
-Yes! There’s many different things that can go into soap! People use goats milk all the time. People sometimes even use camel or donkey, but it’s harder to come by. Soap is made with oils and fats mixing with Lye and going through a chemical reaction called soaponification. Human milk has plenty of good fats in it and help make a creamier lather. The research is still out (from my understanding) on if all the great things in human breastmilk survive the soaponification process. While it’s illegal for me to sell breastmilk soap, I can sell my services and put your milk into your very own loafs! You’d get all the bars and end pieces, get to pick your own scent and colors too!
Why is your soap better than “normal/store bought” soap?
- “Normal/Store bought” soap is made with a lot of chemicals and they strip the naturally occurring glycerin from them. In fact, most of the bars aren’t even technically soap and are labeled as “Beauty bars”. The glycerin they strip out is usually sold for other products, but it’s also the main thing that makes my soap so much more moisturizing.
The soap I make is called Cold processed. There is also Hot processed and Melt & Pour. As mentioned before, you take oils and fats and mix them with lye (a lye solution so the lye fully desolves) and it goes through the soaponification process. It takes 24-48 hours for the chemical reaction to complete, and then its good practice to wait 4-6 weeks before selling the soap so the water (used to desolve the lye) can evaporate and you then have a firmer longer lasting bar.
Hot processed soap is where you do the same thing, but in a warm/hot vessel and speed the process along. Many people use a crock pot they use specifically for soap. They can get the soap made in hours and drastically cut down the cure time, but it’s more attentive, and the bars aren’t as smooth looking.
Melt and Pour is made with a base of glycerin which you can then add fragrance and color to. It’s safe to do with children and the bars set up in a matter of hours. With melt and pour you cannot add any botanicals or perishable items to it, as they won’t go through the soaponification process a can make the soap rancid/mold.
That’s all for this month. I hope to hear back from you and if there’s anything else you’d like to know I’d LOVE to hear it.