This mum turns her breastmilk into soap and her whole family use it

Ashley White has come up with quite a unique and rather interesting business idea - homemade soap created from her own breastmilk.

White gave birth to her second child back in April and since then has used her surplus breastmilk to create soaps to used by the whole family. White stated:

It was a struggle at first as Mia wouldn't latch and my milk wasn't coming in, but when it did I wanted to look into other ways of using my milk. My milk coming in was a huge relief so I expressed quite a bit and built up a stash in the freezer. I didn't want my milk going to waste as it felt like a real achievement.

The 31-year-old continued:

I had heard how breast milk products are great for eczema which my eldest daughter Mylee suffers with, so I looked up how to make the soap for her. My husband Paul and I only use the soaps on our hands for now, we wash Mylee and Mia's entire bodies with it, although it won't be long before we are all using it fully.

Now it is understandable that many think the concept of breastmilk soap is a little strange, but it gets even weirder.

Ashley made the decision to post about her endeavours online and has since been inundated with stranger's requests to buy hersoap.

Luckily this mum does not scare easy and breastmilk supposedly has a ton of soothing benefits for the skin and aids in eczema, psoriasis, sunburn and rashes. She stated:

I am thinking about selling the soap at the same price as other handmade soaps are selling for, which is about £3 to £4 a bar. The breast milk soap is meant to help with rashes, eczema, acne and sunburn to name a few - it's quite awesome really! I am only making the soap for now - I'm yet to make lotion, jelly and a milk bath. I'm 99 percent sure I will sell the soaps but haven't thought about a business name or anything like that just yet.

Well, one thing's for sure, if Ashleys's soap bars are in high demand then breastmilk jelly soap will sell like hotcakes.

The soap itself isn't actually super difficult to make either. All you need is to melt some glycerine in the microwave and mix it with half a pint breastmilk or any other milk (we don't judge)along with some essential oils and pop it in a mould to dry.

Ashley herself prefers to sprinkle a little lavender in the bottom of the mould before pouring in the soap mix. So far, Ashley's soap endeavours seem to be well received. She claims:

I haven't had any negative backlash for making the soap out of my breast milk but I'm sure I will! I haven't told many people in my personal circle about it - one friend has called it 'crazy a**e soap', but my family want to buy it although I will, of course, give them it for free.

Well, waste not, want not!