Special Ingredients Lactic Acid Powder 100g - Vegan Friendly Ideal for Vegan Cheese and Butter, Non-GMO - Recyclable Container

Perfect for Solid Haircare Products 🧼 I bought the Special Ingredients Lactic Acid Powder specifically to pH balance my homemade cosmetic formulations, and it has been a total game-changer! If you make solid shampoo or conditioner bars, you know how tricky it is to get the acidity right without ruining the texture. Superior Performance Over Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) 🍏 I previously used ACV to adjust acidity, but it introduced too much liquid into my recipes, often making the bars too soft or slow to cure. Switching to this powder allows me to achieve the perfect acidic environment for hair (around pH 4.5–5.5) while keeping my solid formulations firm and professional. Key Benefits in Cosmetics • Perfect Dispersion: When mixed into warm liquids, the powder disperses perfectly and evenly. No clumping or grainy patches in the final product! ✨ • Stability: Unlike ACV, this lactic acid is much more stable over time, ensuring products maintain their quality and effectiveness on the shelf. ⏳ • Scalp Health: At low concentrations, Lactic Acid does more than just balance pH—it can help clear dandruff, support a healthy skin microbiome, and keep the scalp's natural defenses strong. 🧬 Hydration Boost: Beyond just balancing pH, it acts as a humectant. It helps the hair and scalp retain moisture without the dryness or irritation caused by harsher adjusters. 💦 Pro-Tips for Usage • Keep it Low: I highly recommend keeping usage rates below 3% for standard hair and skin products. At this level, Lactic Acid is ideal for pH balancing and hydration and does not cause dryness or irritation. • Exfoliation Secret: If you do want to go higher, concentrations above 3% can be used to exfoliate feet. It’s a simple, effective solution that leaves them baby-soft! 👣 • Weight Precision: It’s much easier to measure by weight than trying to "drip" liquid acids into a thick surfactant paste. Final Verdict If you are serious about DIY cosmetics—especially waterless or solid beauty—this is a staple. It’s effective, keeps my bars solid, and provides a much more professional finish than kitchen pantry alternatives. 🏆

This product gives an acidic flavour. I bought this product to make non- probiotic vegan yoghurt and it worked just fine. I also used it in a batch of vegan mozzarella cheese which did not set. I added two teaspoons to the mozzerella and it became vegan sour cream which was great on potato wedges. I will use the lactic acid instead of lemon juice when making tofu sour cream. I would recommend this product in recipes where you are trying to get an acid flavour, and you want to keep liquids in the mixture to a minimum.

Used make my vegan parmesan! Tasty cheesy

It does take a bit of working out in order to concoct sour-tasting milk which is really what I bought it for. I really enjoy sour milk as a refreshing drink and though lactic acid is the natural ingredient in soured milk which gives it the taste, this powder does not really have the same effect in my opinion. It has a rather bitter tang to it and I found out through experience that it does not easily dissolve in cold water. Having said that, although it does very easily dissolve in hot water, it still needs very much "juggling" to try and get a proper "sour milk" taste. I have not yet succeeeded.

Great product. Probably strangest use of all but I used it for peeling callus from my feet. Safer alternative the harsh baby feet type products. Better than using salysilic acid as well. Just mix with a bit of oil(I used olive oil), apply throughly. Wrap with stretch film and wait overnight. I actually applied 24 hour as it is a pretty safe and mild product. It does peel straight away but a couple weeks time you see the real result and great amount of shedding. You can soak in warm water and scrape several layers.

This is superb if you have a problem with your bread not keeping well. You may have noticed that sourdough, whether bought or made, keeps far better than commercial yeast raised bread. The reason is that it has lactic acid from the slow fermentation process. If you add about a teaspoon of this product to the flour, right at the start, you will taste no material difference, but the bread will miraculously last much longer. And this is not a chemical preservative which you may feel uneasy about, its something which is found naturally in all sourdough breads, yoghurts etc. Wonderful.

Hard to review as I have only used it once. I out some in some cashew cream cheese and I can't say I tasted any sourness, even though I added more and more! Whether I used enough or whether it needs time to work I just don't know. I give it four stars mainly on the fact that I like the idea of it and that it is vegan friendly. However, I think the seller could may be give some instructions, even ideas, recipes, as I am finding it hard to know how to use it. I want to make vegan yogurt, without the probiotic as its too hard to find vegan probiotic, and besides from what I have read many yogurts on the market have little or not live probiotics in them, we can't know can we, so I get my probiotics ffrom other sources but still like yogurt, so I nrought this to get the yogurt taste but can't find any info on how to use in in vegan yogurt making. I also want to use it to make vegan cheese, but again no info on how to use it, recipes or quantities so I weould have like more info. I will continue to try and find info and try it out, and if I manage to use it I may well come back and update my review. UPDATE: I am struggling with this product, there doesn't seen to be much info on how to use it. Just tried making soy yogurt and when I added this to the soy milk it curdled into like cottage cheese, which I am not suprised as this happens when you add acidcity to milk, so how can soy yogurt be made using this!!!!! If I don't get anywhere soon I will be givng it less stars and will give up

Ich benutze das als Gesichtsmaske

Sehr gut geeignet für vegane molekular Küche.

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Milchsäure halt. Verwende sie für veganen Käse.

Ist ok!