You've already signed up for some newsletters, but you haven't confirmed your address. And I leave the soap unscented as well, not worth the money, and I refuse to use artificial fragrance oils. Please can you offer any advice on 100% tallow soap? Comment saved in my files from Kevin Dunn, who wrote the book Scientific Soapmaking, and uses soapmaking to teach chemistry to his college students. sue4sue4 I love how simple and easy to read your articles are. Thanks for sharing such interesting recipe. Im worried that some of the metal gets in the soap in mixing process? Almost immediately the solution began to rise up and boiled over and out of the crock pot as I went running with it from the shed. Just my thoughts. SummerSolaceTallow
Ive read that lye is made from wood ash. Stir gently. Nice as a carrier oil when diluting essential oils. What did I do wrong? This can happen with hot process soap, but it can even happen with cold process too. I see a lot of 98.5% lye. Lye is extremely alkaline, and the lye water or liquid soap mixture can burn skin if some splashes on you. Let cure in an area with good air flow for 4 weeks. Ad from shop FatChanceSoaps I made your Tallow Coconut Oil Soap Recipe from our grass fed tallow. CJAndJJBeautyBalm For more info on all the reasons why I love to add tallow to my soap recipes, check out this post on why add tallow to soap here. I have 2 questions. But when I click on the recipe, I usually end up skipping right over it because it calls for a bazillion different types of (expensive) oils I dont have and really dont feel like ordering. Its one I was hoping to use!). I might even consider a few chickens eventually! Will this react with hardwater like castile soap? At my job we use lye (caustic chemical) to clean out industrial sized walk in ovens. 1. From shop SoulEnergyHerbs, ad by UpmarketSkincare Great! My book, Caveman Chemistry documents the history of the alkali industry, and has several projects on making alkali from ashes and lime. I have been wanting to make bar soap but am trying to find something that doesnt dry my skin out a ton. Does the pure tallow recipe require more water for some reason? Ad from shop jklmfarmvt Hey, Ive been soaping a while now & love your soap advice!! Making soap from wood ashes is a challenging, but rewarding project. Love your recipe but just one small question. It worked great! Rich and lathery and doesnt smell of tallow at all I love it! RemnantBeautyUK Ad from shop PrairieSiren BeautyHerb Thank you so much for posting this Ill never have to buy another chemical laden bar of soap again. Jo, People with very sensitive skin might find that they like the unscented version best, too. We are hoping to have our own milk animal one day (cow or goat-not sure yet) so I am trying to find things to use the excess milk for. Just not sure about that step but the rest..awesome and I cant wait to try this after making soap with all sorts of oils but as pointed out, it makes a rather expensive soap as I also added EOs.. Why is it that the recipe without coconut oil has a higher superfat than the one with coconut oil? This pure tallow soap recipe uses only 100% tallow as the oil ingredient. I use plastic or stainless. Master the ins-and-outs of essential oils on the homestead, no matter what sort of homestead you may have! But its quite pricey, so it woulf be nice to make beef sosp. In an area with good ventilation (I do this under with my oven fan on), carefully stir the lye into the measured water.ALWAYS add the lye to the water do NOT add the water to the lye, as it can result in a volcano-like reaction. Ive never made soap, but plan to from our Goats Milk. Im often drawn to the gourmet soap recipes I see on Pinterest with their elegant swirls of color and fancy flavors. Hi there, I am at a loss. Tallow is an ideal fat for soap making. Ive tried a couple tallow soap recipes, didnt like them, but I trust yours! I love using it either on its own in this pure tallow soap recipe, or along with a blend of other oils. Ive also included a tallow/coconut oil recipe, just in case youre looking for the benefits of tallow in a slightly more modern bar. Learn how your comment data is processed. Oops, *use milk in place of the water while also using the tallow and NOT adding any other fats or oils. Wearing gloves and safety goggles, carefully and slowly pour the lye into the water. Safe to use. But the real reason Im drawn to it for soap making, is because lard and tallow make the most sense for homesteaders. Grass fed beef tallow contains an incredible amount of nutrients that are good for skin. Who knows WTH is going on, certainly NOT me. I often use bacon fat in:plsve of butter for eggs. Soap making uses lye in order to turn the oils into soap. Once the fat is nearly all melted, put on your safety gear and carefully measure the lye. It is part of the Level 3 (master) certification for the HSCG [Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetics Guild]. https://www.vedaoils.com/blogs/news/how-to-make-natural-soap-with-essential-oils. You will need a really big pot. We provides all natural soap making products: https://www.ryaal.com/collections/all, Thanks for sharing this post. Some ladies over at the soap making forum said my stearic is too high but that doesnt make sense if I had the tallow at 75% before and you are making 100%. where you take actual flowers (like lilac or lavender) and put a ton in a jar and cover with oil. See our privacy policy. I am wondering however, if you could use milk in place of the water, while keeping the tallow and now adding any other oils or fats. Though:I might get over that and make the soap. Jen, What other oils would you recommend if not coconut oil. I dont have any experience with colloidal silver, so not sure how thatd work.
However, I kept getting requests from my shop customers for a pure tallow soap.
I recommend checking that post out before you begin. I bet an experienced soaper would know this, but I am not and do not, so maybe you can help me? Im going to give it a try. Read more about mehere. Any chance this is a typo from when you ran it through a lye calculator? What size mould do you use, and how did you get these nice fluted sides? Thanks so much for replying. Just run your fat amounts through a soap calculator first (like this one) to make sure you are using a proper amount of lye.
Lard (rendered fat from pigs) and tallow (rendered fat from cattle) were the traditional fats for our homesteading ancestors because they were plentiful and cheap. Most tallow soap recipes you see include a bit of tallow with a handful of vegetable oils as well. I am hoping you can help me . Thank you, all I have is the organic coconut oil so I will have to wait until I find the other. Ad from shop SoftSkinSoap I took vinegar to deactivate any remaining caustic from the solution that boiled out and onto the shed floor. The soap came back too brittle and I found some orange spots on it. I have a dedicated soap crockpot (it was cheap at a yardsale). JerseyMilkSoaps MomBodyandSol Im Marisa. I would think you could just replace the water with the goats milk.
Overcoming chronic health issues with diet changed my life. How do you safely clean up after making lye soap? Yes, you can definitely substitute in lard instead. From shop BeautyHerb, ad by FatChanceSoaps I know this is several years later, but just for anyone else reading the comments now like I am. Like Jill can tell you it is sooo Tasty!! Looks like you already have an account! How caustic is it? Ad from shop StarsRUsShop Because tallow lacks a bit of cleaning power on its own, so its often combined with other oils. If I use unfrefined coconut oil for the scent will that mess anything up? Some of my personal favorites are peppermint, lavender, and lemongrass. Im just a luttle intimidsted by the lye. I do use just one immersion blender for food and soap. Jill, I found the lye water mixture did get quite warm as you stated. This is of course assuming you do not need those bowls and utensils for something else in the meantime, but it suits my pregnant with third child self who doesnt want to do anything more than necessary! Was told never to use aluminum. Since I make my collidial silver with distilled water could I use the collidial silver water in the soap recipe? Also, when the lye is mixed into the water, there are some fumes that are produced. All my batches are pure tallow and no other ingredients at all. I have a skincare shop (which you can check out here). Do you have any idea what could possibly be happening? It only makes sense to put it to good use, otherwise, itd just go in the trash. #5 plastic containers work great. Maybe Ill venture more into cold process someday. Hi Jill, love the blog, channel, podcast, cookbook, EVERYTHING you do! They are not dense enough to use as a scrubber so, can I crumble them finely and add to the soap for scrubbing agent? Id been wanting to make soap for a long long time but thought it would be difficult how wrong could I be! From shop CJAndJJBeautyBalm, If you don't want others to see this collection, make it private.
I also have a lot of fruit. Pour soap into molds, top with wax paper, and wrap molds in towels. Bless you! Now I just have to remember to ask to the butcher to save the leaf fat Thanks Jill! When I run this recipe through SoapCalc, it shows it to be about an 18% superfat. Now put the lid on the crockpot, set it on LOW, and allow it to cook for 45-60 minutes. Switch to an immersion blender (trust me, unless you want to stand there stirring for an hour, youll use an immersion blender), and proceed to blend the tallow, lye, and water until you reach trace. Its supposed to be very strong. You can neutralize everything with vinegar. Does this mean to measure ALL ingredients by weight, including the tallow, lye, distilled water, and coconut oil. Partly because I have several liters of an unusual flavor of EVOO that Ill never use before it goes rancid. We used to use an old enamel coffee pot. From shop LiposTallow, ad by JerseyMilkSoaps
tallow Let it cool completely and then be a Hot Process Hero. I would like to do the same. Have you ever used bear fat? Queensland, Australia. From shop MomBodyandSol, ad by sue4sue4
Fractionated coconut isnt really worth using in soap. If I do not have an immersion blender, would a hand-held mixer do the job alright? But I do love natural soaps. Maybe that was overkill but. ad by PrairieSiren Ive soaped it (as one of several oils in a recipe). Do you think I could substitute the 9oz distilled water for 9 oz of fresh moringa juice? I think what you have described is a soap volcano. 1000 pounds of wood leaves about 5 pounds of ash, from which about 1 pound of potash (potassium carbonate) can be extracted. 
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