Best use of my superpower!

By Manali Menon: how she made breast milk soap from her excess breast milk.

I was blessed with my second baby (a baby girl) 9 months back. It has been such a pleasant and fulfilling breastfeeding journey for me. I was able to exclusively breastfeed both my son (now 3 years old) and my daughter (now 9 months old) for the first six months. I continued to breastfeed my son for 15 months and plan to continue as long as possible for my daughter as well. 

I have now resumed my work and have made sure that my little one gets only my own expressed milk along with nutritious solid foods while I am away from her. My children have infact supported me so well and I think I have breastfeeding to thank, for establishing such a lovely bond with them. I wont say it was all very easy, it never is! But, I was determined to give them the best start of life. It was made possible only with the continuous support of my husband and my family members.

My Lactation consultant Rashmi is also my very good friend and she was extremely delighted when I shared with her, a pic of a breast milk soap that I had made from the excess milk that I had. She said it was such a wonderful use of my precious milk and I must share it with other parents too. 

So here comes how I made it! 

I took normal glycerin soap base and melted it, then added expressed breast milk to it. The quantity of breast milk should be less than the soap base, say ratio should be 5:3

As I was making it for my newborn and toddler I did not add artificial colour and fragrance. I added few strands of saffron and a very fine powder of nutmeg for fragrance and my soap was ready. It’s absolutely moisturising and my toddler loved it!!"

Every drop of breastmilk is so precious and if you are blessed with excess then, please dont let that go waste. There is so much that you can do with it. You can make soaps, use it in preparing solid foods, donate it to the milk banks for other babies who really need it. Let us make the most of this super power which only moms are blessed with! 😊💖