Make a Breastmilk Necklace at Home
The only DIY kit that preserves breastmilk in its pure, liquid form. Create a museum‑quality breastmilk necklace at home with patented technology trusted by 70,000+ mothers worldwide.
Make a Breastmilk Necklace at Home
The only DIY kit that preserves breastmilk in its pure, liquid form. Create a museum‑quality breastmilk necklace at home with patented technology trusted by 70,000+ mothers worldwide.
Everything included,
just add 30 minutes
What is a breastmilk necklace?
A breastmilk necklace is a keepsake pendant made by preserving a small amount of your milk inside resin. With DIY by MILKIES®, you create it yourself at home, so your milk stays with you, and you can choose the exact look, color, and finish you’ll wear every day.
Meaning You Wear
Turn a tiny, ordinary moment, one teaspoon of milk, into a necklace that quietly carries your breastfeeding story, day after day, close to your heart.
Pure Preservation
Our method preserves breastmilk in liquid form, no drying, no powders, no clay bases, so the keepsake reflects what made this journey uniquely yours.
Made to Last
Professional-grade resin creates a permanent, crystal-clear seal. Paired with quality settings, your pendant is designed to remain beautiful for years to come.
Why make your own breastmilk necklace?
Milk Stays Private
Many mothers don’t feel comfortable mailing breastmilk away. With DIY by MILKIES®, the entire process happens at home, so your milk stays with you from start to finish.
Your Exact Style
A necklace is something you’ll wear often, so the details matter. DIY lets you choose the look you love and create a pendant that matches your everyday jewelry, not someone else’s design.
Fast, On Your Time
No long production queues. The kit is designed for beginners, with about 30 minutes of active work, so you can make your pendant when you’re ready, at your own pace.
A True Milestone
Whether you’re celebrating a birth, a breastfeeding goal, or weaning, a breastmilk necklace turns that milestone into something tangible, an heirloom you can keep and pass down.
DIY Breast milk Box – Set: 12mm Necklace "Circle of Life" + Bracelet + Ring + Earrings
(61 reviews)ROSE GOLD (24-carat rose gold-plated silver)
Craft an unparalleled emotional treasure right in the comfort of your home. With MILKIES DIY KIT, you don't just create jewellery; you encapsulate memories and emotions, courtesy of our patented preservation process, years of expertise, and over 50,000 satisfied customers. Everything you need is right in the box—our exclusive preservation agent, tools, and even a beautiful box for safekeeping.
DIY Breast milk Box – Set: 12mm Necklace "Circle of Life" + Bracelet + Ring + Earrings
ROSE GOLD (24-carat rose gold-plated silver)
What’s inside your DIY kit?
Everything you need to create your breastmilk necklace at home, beautifully organized in our signature pink and blue keepsake box, so you can set up, craft, and pack it away neatly.
Jewelry Settings
Necklace, bracelet, ring in 925 sterling silver
Preservation Agent
MILKIES® patented formula for liquid milk
Jeweler’s Resin
Professional-grade, crystal clear resin finish
Complete Tools
Syringes, sticks, gloves, and essentials
Crafting Mat
Large mat with numbered zones
Video Tutorial
Step-by-step guidance in real time
DIY Manual
Comprehensive, clear, printed instructions
Keepsake Box
Gift-ready, beautifully organized packaging
DIY by MILKIES® vs. other options
If you’re shopping for a breastmilk necklace, it helps to compare how each option handles preservation, materials, and control, because those are what determine the final result.
| Feature | DIY by MILKIES® | Send-Away Services | Generic DIY Kits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milk Stays Home | |||
| Liquid Preservation | Varies | Often dried | |
| Patented Technology | Varies | ||
| 925 Sterling Silver | Varies | Often plated | |
| Video Instructions | N/A | Sometimes | |
| Ready In | 24-72 hours | 4-8 weeks | Varies |
| Price Range | $115-$199 | $200-$500+ | $50-$150 |
Patented Preservation
DIY by MILKIES® is the only kit designed to preserve full liquid breastmilk in resin without drying it or mixing it into a powder base, so the keepsake stays true to what you’re preserving.
70,000+ Mothers Served
MILKIES® has helped tens of thousands of mothers turn breastfeeding memories into lasting keepsakes, backed by 2,000+ five‑star reviews across platforms like Facebook and Google.
Support Across Time Zones
Need help while creating your necklace? Our teams are based in Germany, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Poland, so you can get guidance from people who know the process inside and out.
Kasia Lew , Mother of 2, practiced extended breastfeeding & tandem nursing
From a Mother’s Moment to A Wearable Keepsake
MILKIES® began with Kasia Lew in 2013, after the birth of her first child, Adam. As a mother who practiced extended breastfeeding, and later tandem nursing two children, she understood the bond created during those quiet, intimate feeding moments.
After months of research and development, MILKIES® launched on Mother’s Day 2016 as a home-based operation. It has since grown into an international brand, serving 70,000+ mothers across 50+ countries who want to preserve their stories in meaningful ways.
DIY by MILKIES® was created by listening to customers. Many mothers told Kasia they wanted a keepsake, but hesitated to send breastmilk to a third party. With her background in computer linguistics and multimedia, she built a complete DIY kit, supported by step-by-step video guides.
DIY by MILKIES® is the only kit that preserves liquid breastmilk in resin without altering its natural state. It’s a testament to Kasia’s dedication to authenticity and quality, so what you’re preserving remains as real as the memory itself.
70,000+
Happy Mothers
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Countries Served
2016
Founded
The Breastmilk Necklace That Holds a Whole Chapter
Breastfeeding is measured in hours, but remembered in flashes. A breastmilk necklace turns that private, demanding season into something you can touch, wear, and keep without explaining it to anyone.
By Kasia Lew, Founder of MILKIES®
When the days blur but the feeling stays
A breastmilk necklace sounds, at first, like a novelty, until you’ve lived the kind of months that don’t sit neatly in a photo album. The night feeds. The quiet bargaining with your own exhaustion. The strange, soft intensity of being the solution to someone else’s every discomfort. You can forget the exact dates, but your body remembers the rhythm.
For many mothers, breastfeeding is the most private public act of early parenthood. It happens everywhere, couches, cars, park benches, the edge of a bed at 3 a.m., yet it rarely feels like something the world truly sees. People notice the baby. They rarely notice what it costs you, what it gives you, and what it changes in you.
That’s why keepsakes from this season hit differently. A breastmilk necklace isn’t “just jewelry.” It’s a small, deliberate refusal to let a formative chapter become a blur of laundry cycles and app notifications. It’s proof that your effort mattered, even when no one clapped for it.
Sometimes the desire arrives late, at weaning, when hormones dip and the house feels oddly quiet. Sometimes it arrives immediately, when a partner asks what you want after birth and you realize you don’t want more stuff. You want meaning. Something that doesn’t expire, stain, leak, or get outgrown.
This is a guide for anyone who has searched for a breastmilk necklace with a practical question in mind, how it’s made, what lasts, what looks good, what’s safe, while carrying an emotional question underneath: how do I hold on to this without living in the past?
Why we reach for objects when the season ends
Breastfeeding is work that rarely leaves artifacts
Most milestones come with built-in souvenirs. You keep the hospital bracelet. You save the first onesie. You frame a photo from the first birthday. Breastfeeding, though, is both constant and invisible. It’s a routine that can span months or years, yet it leaves behind very little that feels dignified to keep. Milk bags in the freezer are practical, not poetic. Nursing bras are functional, not commemorative. A breastmilk necklace fills that gap by turning a material of care into something intentionally preserved, an artifact that says, without needing a speech, “This happened. I did this.” It also solves a modern problem: we live surrounded by images, but we’re starving for objects with weight. You can scroll back to a thousand photos of your baby’s face. You cannot scroll back to your own endurance, your patience, your tenderness when you were depleted. Keepsake jewelry is a way of honoring the part of the story that typically goes unrecorded.
The emotional timing often lands at weaning
Many women only start looking for a breastmilk necklace when breastfeeding is ending. Weaning can feel like a relief and a loss in the same breath. There’s often a hormonal shift that can magnify sadness or nostalgia, even when the decision is right. It’s not unusual to grieve a chapter you were also desperate to finish. In that moment, a breastmilk necklace can act like a bridge between identities. It acknowledges that you’re changing again, less milk, more space in your day, perhaps a return to work or to a body that feels more like your own. The keepsake doesn’t keep you stuck; it gives the memory a place to live so it stops haunting you in passing thoughts.
Meaningful gifts have become harder to choose
Partners and relatives now face a strange cultural pressure: find a gift that feels personal without being intrusive, sentimental without being corny, “for her” without ignoring the baby. Jewelry has always been a safe answer, but “safe” isn’t the same as “right.” A breastmilk necklace is a bolder kind of gift because it recognizes motherhood as something that happened to a person, not just a household. Still, the search comes with concerns. Is it sanitary? Will it yellow? Will it look like costume jewelry? Will the mother feel comfortable sending milk to a stranger? Can you do it at home without ruining it? Those questions are sensible, and they deserve clear answers rather than vague reassurance.
What a breastmilk necklace really is and why DIY is rising
A breastmilk necklace is a piece of keepsake jewelry made by preserving a small amount of breastmilk inside a solid medium, most commonly resin, then setting it into a pendant. Done well, the result is elegant rather than literal: a milky opalescence, a soft marble, a pale stone-like center that reads as modern jewelry first, private story second.
The demand for a breastmilk necklace has grown as mothers have become more candid about the complexity of breastfeeding. Not everyone experiences it as serene. For many, it’s pain, logistics, pumping schedules, mastitis fears, latch consultations, work meetings timed around let-down, and the mental load of feeding as planning. A keepsake is not about romanticizing the struggle; it’s about acknowledging the intensity of it.
Traditionally, making a breastmilk necklace meant using a send-away service. You post a small amount of milk to a studio, wait, and eventually receive a finished piece. For some, that’s perfect. For others, the idea of shipping such a personal material feels uncomfortable, especially if milk supply was hard-won. A different group wants something else entirely: to be involved in the making, to control the process, to craft the keepsake with their own hands at their own pace.
That is the space DIY by MILKIES® was built for. After MILKIES® processed over 100,000 orders in keepsake jewelry, it became clear that a significant number of mothers wanted the same professional-grade result without sending their breastmilk to a third party. The answer wasn’t a flimsy craft kit. It was a carefully designed home workshop experience, powered by MILKIES®’s patented preservation technology for working with liquid breastmilk in resin.
As the founder, my own path into this work came from extended breastfeeding and tandem nursing my two children. I know the desire to mark a chapter that shaped you. I also know that mothers need options: some want a professional service, others want privacy and agency. DIY by MILKIES® is the evolution that makes room for both.
- Privacy without compromise, because you preserve the breastmilk necklace at home on your own terms
- Professional-grade support through a step-by-step video guide that walks you through the process in real time
- A true “kitchen table workshop” kit, including a large workmat, tools, materials, and organized compartments
- Choice and style range, with multiple necklace designs plus rings, earrings, and a bracelet in silver, gold-plated, and rose gold-plated finishes
- A more personal result, because the object is not only about the milk but also about the act of making it
Still, aesthetics and sentiment are only half the story. A breastmilk necklace has to last. It needs to resist yellowing, cracking, and the subtle breakdown that can happen when organic material meets time. The difference between an heirloom and a regret often comes down to the preservation method, and that’s where the technical details matter, even if you never thought you’d care about resin chemistry.
Preserving breastmilk without turning it into something else
The hardest part of making a breastmilk necklace is not choosing a pendant or a metal finish. It’s stabilizing breastmilk, an organic, living substance, so it can be sealed into resin in a way that holds color, texture, and integrity over time.
Many DIY methods on the internet begin with drying. You dehydrate breastmilk into a powder, then mix it with resin or a clay-like base. Drying can work as a craft approach, but it also changes the material. Powdered milk behaves differently in resin than liquid milk. The resulting look can be grainy, chalky, or uneven, and the process can be sensitive to humidity and temperature. If you’re making a breastmilk necklace to honor “the real thing,” it’s fair to want the real thing preserved, not a version that has been heavily transformed to be manageable.
DIY by MILKIES® uses MILKIES®’s patented technology designed specifically to preserve full liquid breastmilk in resin. That means no drying it first, no mixing it with any powder, and no removing anything from it. The aim is simple: preserve breastmilk in its pure, natural form so the final breastmilk necklace has the luminous, stone-like quality mothers recognize and want.
Why does “pure liquid” matter? Because the character of breastmilk, its subtle translucence and creamy depth, comes from its natural structure. When you treat it like a substance to be “fixed” by converting it into powder, you can lose that visual complexity. Preserving the liquid form helps maintain a smoother, more uniform aesthetic that reads as intentional jewelry rather than an experiment.
Authority also comes from track record. MILKIES® has built its reputation in keepsake jewelry by serving a customer base of over 100,000 across more than 50 countries, supported by a 5/5 star rating from over 2,000 reviews on platforms like Facebook and Google. DIY by MILKIES® is not a side project; it is a product line developed on top of years of process refinement and customer feedback, with support teams across regions and production facilities based in Poland.
What makes preservation credible
DIY by MILKIES® was developed after MILKIES® processed over 100,000 keepsake jewelry orders worldwide. The kit applies the same preservation know-how to a home process, pairing patented liquid breastmilk preservation with guided, step-by-step instruction.
The small ritual of making something that stays
A breastmilk necklace is often purchased in the middle of a loud life. The baby is crawling, or teething, or suddenly sleeping through. You are back at work or thinking about it. The house is full of objects that exist to be cleaned, sterilized, folded, or replaced. Then the kit arrives, and it asks you for something different: attention. The box itself is designed like a keepsake, not packaging you want to throw away. Pink and blue, with compartments that make sense of the process, tools here, settings there, materials separated so you don’t have to improvise. You spread the large workmat across the kitchen table and, for once, the table isn’t a staging area for someone else’s needs. It becomes your bench. You open the instructions and, importantly, you don’t have to decode them. The printed manual is clear and structured, and the step-by-step video guide brings a calm presence into the room. It’s not a rushed tutorial that assumes you’re a hobbyist; it’s paced for a tired adult who wants to do it right the first time. There is a particular kind of intimacy in handling breastmilk outside of feeding. You measure it with care because you know what it represents, nights, patience, the bodily generosity that is rarely named. Making a breastmilk necklace at home can feel like closing a loop. It’s not about preserving a liquid because you can’t let go. It’s about giving a memory a physical form so you can let go more peacefully. As the resin sets and the piece begins to look like jewelry, real jewelry, not a school project, something shifts. The keepsake stops being an idea and becomes an object. You start imagining how it will sit against your skin, how it will catch light, how it will quietly accompany you to places where breastfeeding will never come up in conversation. And that’s the point. A breastmilk necklace doesn’t have to announce itself. It can be your secret witness. It can live under a sweater in winter, then appear in summer as a small, pale stone. People might compliment it without knowing what they’re praising. You get to decide what the story is for them, and what it is for you. For many mothers, the most unexpected part is pride, not performative pride, but the quiet recognition that you made something from your own chapter, with your own hands, in your own home. In a season where so much is outsourced or automated, that kind of authorship feels rare.
- Prepare your workspace and choose your breastmilk necklace setting and finish
- Measure and preserve your liquid breastmilk using the kit materials and video guidance
- Combine with resin according to the instructions and pour into the jewelry setting
- Let it cure fully, then assemble and wear your finished breastmilk necklace
Choosing the right route without the regret
If you’re looking for a breastmilk necklace, you’ll notice three broad options: send-away services, low-cost DIY kits, and premium DIY kits designed to deliver a studio-grade result at home.
Send-away services can be wonderful if you want a fully finished piece without lifting a finger. The trade-off is emotional, not just logistical. Some mothers feel uneasy shipping breastmilk across borders or to a studio they don’t know. Others have limited milk supply and don’t want to risk loss in transit. If privacy and control matter to you, a DIY route naturally feels safer.
Low-cost DIY kits often rely on simplified methods such as drying breastmilk into powder or combining it with fillers. They can work for experiments, but results vary widely, and the finish may not stand up to daily wear. A breastmilk necklace sits close to the skin, exposed to heat, light, friction, cosmetics, and time. If you want it to look like refined jewelry rather than an arts-and-crafts attempt, the underlying preservation method becomes the deciding factor.
A premium solution like DIY by MILKIES® aims for the middle ground: professional at home. It combines a structured kit, a guided video process, and patented preservation designed for liquid breastmilk in resin, without drying, powder mixing, or stripping anything away. It’s made for mothers who want the finished breastmilk necklace to be beautiful enough to wear for years, and personal enough to feel like theirs from the beginning.
The best choice is the one that matches your temperament. If you want to hand over the process, send-away may suit you. If you want a quick craft, a basic kit might be fine. But if you want privacy, control, and a result that reads as true jewelry, a professionally designed DIY kit is worth considering.
A story you can wear without explaining
A breastmilk necklace is a small object with an outsized job. It has to hold tenderness and fatigue, pride and doubt, the sweetness of closeness and the craving for your own space. It has to honor a season that may have been beautiful, brutal, or both. Most of all, it has to last, quietly, long after the last feed is forgotten. When you make a breastmilk necklace, you’re not trying to preserve a baby. Babies grow regardless. You’re preserving a version of yourself: the one who showed up again and again, often unseen. The keepsake becomes a private language between past and present, a reminder that your body did something extraordinary and your mind endured something demanding. If you’ve been circling the idea, consider what you’re really asking for. Not just jewelry, but a marker. Not just a memory, but a way to hold it gently. Whether you choose a professional service or decide to make it at home, you deserve a keepsake that treats your story with the seriousness it earned.
When you’re ready, choose the breastmilk necklace path that gives you both confidence in the result and respect for the chapter it represents.
Stories From Our Community
Every piece of jewelry tells a unique story. Here are just a few from mothers who've created their own keepsakes.
“My husband ordered me this ring for Mother’s Day and it turned out gorgeous! The video really made the directions easy to follow and I like that it included a box for storage”
Jenny
ETSY
“Everything was sooo well thought out and the colors are too cute!! You get everything you need including cute pink gloves. The instructions were extremely detailed and simple. My oldest wanted to add glitter so he could be a part of the keepsake as well. I am so happy with my purchase and definitely recommending this to friends and family!”
Angel
ETSY
“The ring is so beautiful and I am so happy to carry something with me as a reminder of one of the hardest but most rewarding and beautiful journeys I have ever experienced.”
Ashley
ETSY
“ love this item. The kit has been very well thought and the quality is amazing. I am beyond happy with this gift to myself!”
Perrine
ETSY
“This is so beautiful! I’m in love with it”
Abigail
ETSY
“Easy instructions, excellent quality beautiful and unique.”
Yelitza
ETSY
“Having my breastfeeding journey represented in a piece of jewelry is so special to me. It’s the perfect way to cherish that extremely special time. The kit was very easy to follow and had everything needed. It turned out beautifully. Thanks so much to Milkies!”
Ashley
ETSY
“I bought this for my sister in law and she was absolutely thrilled! They turned out fantastic!”
rhondamorgan4711
ETSY
“Great product, very well designed, the kit is great. I recommend without hesitation!”
Marine
ETSY
“In the top ! I hope it will last over time. Priceless gift”
Anais
ETSY
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before making your breastmilk necklace at home.
Turn your breastfeeding journey into a necklace forever
One small teaspoon becomes a pendant you can wear close to your heart, made by you, at home, with patented preservation that keeps your breastmilk in its pure liquid form.