What do you do when you have too much breastmilk and nowhere to put it? If you’re a normal, boring, everyday kind of mom, you just dump all that delicious white gold into the garbage and forget it ever existed; or, if you’re one of those people who’s feeling particularly generous, you donate it to a Milk Bank, which allows parents who can’t produce breast milk to purchase it for their babies. Both valid ideas!
But if you’re the type of person that’s entrepreneurial and willing to go the extra mile to make some cash in a nice market, then you take that breast milk, add some essential oil and then put it on the market for people to buy! That’s exactly what Jasmine Overton, a busy Australian mom, did, and now business is booming.
According to The Daily Mail, which chronicled Overton’s meteoric rise from stay-at-home mom to up-and-coming purveyor of breast milk beauty products, the decision to go into business began two years ago when her sister, unable to find any use for her excess breast milk, decided to just hand it over and see what could be done with it. Overton, who’s already an experienced soap-maker, started mixing up batch after batch of breast milk soap, which she says is “gentle and creamy,” and, apparently, absolutely addictive.
Aside from getting you good and clean, she claims the milk can rid you of everything from acne and redness to “itchiness” and “sensitivity.” And while Overton doesn’t have her own Etsy shop set up just yet (yet!) she says that word-of-mouth is so great that she’s finally going to strike it out on her own, making custom soaps for mothers who just have more milk than a baby can handle. ‘It’s liquid gold, full of vitamins and minerals and so good for your skin,’ Overton told The Daily Mail .
Here’s how the milk is made:
Jasmine preserves the milk in the freezer with ice packs after Chrystal has expressed it.
When she is ready to use it, she defrosts it and mixes it with oils – taking about 45 minutes to make 500g worth, then about four-six weeks to set.
She pours it into a mould, leaves it for two days, cuts it into bars, then leaves it to harden.
There is one catch, however: Overton isn’t going to just be making breast milk for anybody who wants it. She believes that breast milk soap has to be “personalized” to the person who’s using it, so, for now at least, Overton’s only making the bars of soap for mothers who provide her with their own breastmilk. Of course, there’s nothing that she can do if those mothers turn right around and become breastmilk soap dealers of their own, handing over bars of the precious product over to those who are willing to pay the price (you know that dudes will pay for breast milk, right? There’s even a page called Only The Breast that caters to both moms who need milk and bodybuilders who use it as a dietary supplement).
Be warned, though: Despite Overton’s claims, doctors say that soap made out of breast milk is no better for you than any other cleanser. After women in China started selling the stuff in China in 2014, experts revealed that not only does the soap-making process nullify any of the health benefits of using the product, but that breast milk coming from someone unhealthy could also lead to the transmission of disease.
Still, if you’re looking for fun ways to spice up your beauty routine, a shower with breast milk soap might just be what you need after coating your face with semen (for glowing, radiant skin), and gulping down an ejaculate-fortified smoothie for vitality.
