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Breast milk soap, would you buy some?!

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FastasleepInAManger · 12/12/2005 19:16

I'm finally buying my ingredients tonight online and need to know how much to buy lol... if someone offered you breastmilk soap would you really buy some? It'll be home made from 100% natural ingredients by the old fashioned cold press method which involves hard work and 2-3 weeks 'curing'...

for a 200 gram bar I'd want £2.50 and 60p postage...

It'll contain lovely yummy cinammon and coconut oil too... so would anyone want any (bearing in mind it won't be ready for weeks yet!)

[The breastmilk is milk that has been turned down by my milkbank due to the fact that I had a cold when producing it - this in no way makes the soap icky as the chemical process in soap making pretty much pasteurises it anyway]

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Twiglett · 12/12/2005 19:30

why are we being foul? .. it was an honest response to an honest question .. best to save the hard work IMO

katymacracker · 12/12/2005 19:30

I underatand where you are coming from

Why not make it for your own use?

I can see why you don't want to waste it.....(they wouldn't let me donate as I have ME)

Maybe you have to accept that it will be wasted? Horrid and wasteful I know

Not sure how to make you feel better

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FastasleepInAManger · 12/12/2005 19:30

I kind of have to specifiy what type of milk it is otherwise everyone'll go 'eww' and sue me!

Would anyone be up for plain old cows milk cinnamon and coconut oil hand made soap then?

I was getting excited at the prospect of soap making...

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Nightynight · 12/12/2005 19:31

daisy jokes and all twiglett!

overdrafttopayforchristmas · 12/12/2005 19:31

bath in it

Nightynight · 12/12/2005 19:32

theyll never know. you dont have to specify the ingredients for soaps do you. And if someone says Oh, I cant buy that because Im allergic to cows milk, you can say, Weeeeeelll, ACTUALLY....

noddyholder · 12/12/2005 19:32

I think it would be marketable to a certain section of society Like someone said the HFW types It is not yuck though The main ingredient in most top brand face creams is urea a derivative of urine and no one minds that

Nightynight · 12/12/2005 19:33

they dont know!

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 12/12/2005 19:33

How much soap would 7l make anyway? "personal use" sounds like a good idea.

Ordinary milk soap I wouldn't have a problem with - daft isn't it?

Stilltrue · 12/12/2005 19:33

None of this is at all logical. If Crabtree and Evelyn, Bodyshop etc all sell milk based soap (inc goat milk soap) then why not ? It's the shock of the new speaking in all of you. That said, I wouldn't mention "breast" on the packaging either tbh. sorry. I'm sure it would be lovely in an artisanal type of way though.

NomDePlumPudding · 12/12/2005 19:34

I think you would have to specify that it was human milk if you were selling it.

WigWamBam · 12/12/2005 19:34

It would be the coconut oil that would put me off, rather than the breastmilk.

Strange that people are put off by human breasts but would be quite happy if it came from a cow's udders ...

bobbybobbobbingalong · 12/12/2005 19:35

Sounds like one for Ebay - lots of people online would buy it.

Nightynight · 12/12/2005 19:35

oi! I said it was logical to make the soap and not waste the milk!
I personally would not pioneer the market in breast milk based beauty products though.

NannyL · 12/12/2005 19:35

i wouldn't mind breats milk soap!

(tho cows milk soap may appeal to me EVEN more!)

Nightynight · 12/12/2005 19:35

bobby - brilliant idea!

overdrafttopayforchristmas · 12/12/2005 19:36

on nip/tuck they had spunk as an ingredient in a face mask. It is supposed to be good for the skin.Program i know but it is true about the spunk

overdrafttopayforchristmas · 12/12/2005 19:38

they said they couldn't disclose the secret ingredient

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 12/12/2005 19:59

I agree completely that it's odd to be put off by human milk and not by cows but I did admit that my feelings had no logical reason whatsoever. I know it's completely daft but... but...

zippimistletoes · 12/12/2005 20:02

actually I don't think you could sell it as I think breast milk would be prohibited ingredient for resale

ohFennelyeHerbful · 12/12/2005 20:02

just wondering, why can't you feed it to your baby? if you have spare breastmilk?

is there something obvious I'm missing here?

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FastasleepInAManger · 12/12/2005 20:03

I'd probably have to ask ebay, or end up as one of those news stories about idiots like the ones who tried to sell Britney Spears' chewing gum...(with possible spit and DNA)...

I'll make some 'normal' milk soap... and if you don't like coconut poo at you!

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zippimistletoes · 12/12/2005 20:03

I think no human product can be sold and HIV crosses in breast milk doesn't it (could if there |I mean)

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FastasleepInAManger · 12/12/2005 20:04

I'm making 7 litres a week too much for my baby and no one in the world has a freezer that big at home

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feastofsteven · 12/12/2005 20:04

Fast is expressing far too much for her freezer to keep pace with atm! You could store some in my freezer Fast if the soap thing doesn't take off?