Hey Girl.. I just soaped this again the other night. I was finally able to get all the ingredients in. I will do one more thing differently. I will attempt to finely snip the silk fibers and add them to my butters and melt them with those. I have a batch that is one week out and it will be ready to test. This batch is only missing silk. If adding it to the butters does not melt it good enough, I will try heating up my water and melting the fibers... then add the sugar,salt and powdered goats milk.... then freeze. I have been premixing/freezing a few days ahead so this might be a possible solution as well.. either way, I am getting that damn silk in there! The batches that I have made with salt/sugar and gm are very firm after only several hours. I waited to cut this last batch for about 36 hours and it is like cutting a slab of parmesean cheese. VERY FIRM. I add salt/sugar to my goats milk, make sure it is dissolved and freeze it. Compared to batches that I made 6 weeks ago, this soap is incredibly hard. I just love this soap recipe. Once I am able to adequately test a batch that has all the ingredients, I will report my findings. So far, Michelle did an awesome job with this. I LOVE the creaminess,silkiness and the hardness.. Should turn out to be fabulous!Teri