Using Sodium Lactate instead of Sodium Citrate

If you read my post on Salicylic acid, you would have read that sodium citrate can be used with salicylic acid to make it more water-soluble. I am curious if sodium lactate at 1% active concertation would work as well. So we are going to try that in this post.
Sodium lactate comes in a 60% stock solution. So we will need to calculate what 1% would be.