My buckets of coconut oil, crockpot, EOs now Im kicking myself because no matter the pain, I WILL do what I want!) These are third party technologies used for things like interest based Etsy ads. Now Shipping Our Grass-Finished Beef Nation Wide! https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/dreaded-orange-spots/. Momentary brain fog . I show 4.42 oz lye for the 33 oz tallow. I am concerned though, if it is safe to use because my stick blender bottom, reacted to the lye and turned black, and now the metal rubs off on touch, is it safe now to use the soap? But since this recipe allows all the lye to be completely reacted, I dont see anything wrong if you wanted to use a food crockpot. I used your recipe for pure tallow for cold process. Hahahahahaha.). This has kind of scared me from trying again. I found the lye water mixture did get quite warm as you stated. At first, the soap recipe was a dream to work with, so creamy and amazing! What did I do wrong? It is readily available, provides hardness and creaminess to the finished soap bars, and is wonderful for skin. Check the temperature of the tallow.

Let cure in an area with good air flow for 4 weeks. Tallow, by far is one, if not the best material for soap (especially for skin). And the result: Oh WOW its incredible!! You can neutralize everything with vinegar.

SoulEnergyHerbs If you burn sea plants, you get sodium carbonate. I recommend wearing gloves, long sleeves, and eye protection when working with lye. I know that these thing can seem a little bit intimidating at first, but dont let that stop you from getting started with learning how to make soap from scratch.

U will never go back to canned!

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Substitute it for olive or another soft oil in your recipe. I am already hooked up with the Leaf fat.

Can you please provide your reasoning for this? ALWAYS wear protective eye gear, gloves, and long sleeves when working lye, and handle it in a well-ventilated area. However, I may play around with it in the future. Lye Ad from shop SanAntonioSoapShop No lye is left over after the soap making is complete and the bars are cured, so theres no reason to worry about that. Would using a leaf lard/ghee mix have any affect on the outcome of the recipe? And, I cannot sign up for your posts to be sent to my email (which is what I really would rather do) Cheers, You can sign up for my weekly newsletter here: https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/subscribe, Thanks, once again! Most tallow soap recipes you see include a bit of tallow with a handful of vegetable oils as well.

Grass fed beef tallow contains an incredible amount of nutrients that are good for skin.

hi- U seem so homey and down to earth!!

The tallow and coconut oil were melted in the crock pot and ready to go. Im about to embark on soapmaking! Does this mean to measure ALL ingredients by weight, including the tallow, lye, distilled water, and coconut oil. From shop FatChanceSoaps, ad by Soapyoaks Thats it! THeres a tallow rendering tutorial here on the blog as well. The one in the can is awful! No mention of the type of pot you used. What size mould do you use, and how did you get these nice fluted sides? ; lots of terminology to learn!) Hi Jill, love the blog, channel, podcast, cookbook, EVERYTHING you do! We provides all natural soap making products: https://www.ryaal.com/collections/all, Thanks for sharing this post. Wonderful recipe. I took vinegar to deactivate any remaining caustic from the solution that boiled out and onto the shed floor. Thanks for any assistance. Follow along as I share nourishing recipes, natural remedies, and DIY skincare and home products. You could still play with colors and swirls, if you wanted to, without all those fancy oils But then it would be better to use cold process, not hot process as above. Tami.

I just wanted to say thanks for all your tips !! I do use just one immersion blender for food and soap. Read more about mehere.

I just got another batch of tallow, same damn thing!

You indicate 8%. You can pick up plastic tubs from restaurants for free a lot of times. And I leave the soap unscented as well, not worth the money, and I refuse to use artificial fragrance oils. My company is a large company that makes products I bet many of you have eaten and been perfectly fine. I would think you could just replace the water with the goats milk. *When making soap, always measure by WEIGHT, not by volume. Kia Ora I am wondering if you can just pour the soap straight into the mold to achieve cold soap method rather than doing the hot soap methods? It has a coated finish and works just fine. Im worried that some of the metal gets in the soap in mixing process? Etsy is powered by 100% renewable electricity. Visit us on https://essentialoilwholesaler.com/. How caustic is it? This seems backwards to me. They are usually happy to give it to you or sell it for a minimal fee, as its not exactly a hot commodity at the moment. tallow Like this>.

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. Tallow is an ideal fat for soap making. Soap burns the eyes. Any chance this is a typo from when you ran it through a lye calculator? When I run this recipe through SoapCalc, it shows it to be about an 18% superfat. so I slowly added the lye water mixture to the crock pot and stirred it for a few minutes maybe 5 minutes. But what about (dont know that its called, infused? I never understood why homemade soaps at fairs and such was so expensive until I started looking at essential oils. Master the ins-and-outs of essential oils on the homestead, no matter what sort of homestead you may have! Thanks! I see that the process above states When making soap, always measure by WEIGHT, not by volume. I followed your recipe exactly but made a half portion. Like so many other DIY skincare items that you can make yourself, this pure tallow soap recipe can be personalized with different essential oils. I was wondering about the distilled water would city water run through my Berkey ceramic filter work just as well? Ive been making soap with a blend of tallow, coconut oil, and olive oil for a while. Get my full disclosure here. Safe to use. Ive never had that issue with my tallow soaps, so Im not sure what would be causing that. However, if you want to use FCO, youll definitely need to run it all through the calculator. Citrus oils are often too mild to scent soap well.

All my batches are pure tallow and no other ingredients at all. Nice as a carrier oil when diluting essential oils. Thanks! I have all of the ingredients and hardware to make the Coconut Tallow recipe. BeautyHerb

Public collections can be seen by the public, including other shoppers, and may show up in recommendations and other places. If not how should I safely dispose of it? To sent the soaps, when making the tallow, could you add your own mixture of fresh herbs?

Wasnt sure if the drip on top held enough so I put the immersion blender back in and started to mix again. Thanks so much for replying.

Thank you! I will never go back. Have you learned how to make it and use it in different ways besides soap? The recipes Ive seen, the flowers get swapped out for fresh ones at some point and its left to steep for at least a week, some say several weeks. I imagine you could make soap with Crisco, but Ive never tried it personally. I also have access to some tallow. If I do not have an immersion blender, would a hand-held mixer do the job alright? I put stiff cardboard on the ends, cover one side with wax or parchment paper. A local butcher asked me to make soap out of the tallow he has. 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. Thank you for any input. Immersion blender

From shop JerseyMilkSoaps, ad by SummerSolaceTallow I believe that is what Jill uses as well! StarsRUsShop Hi! Thank you so much for posting this Ill never have to buy another chemical laden bar of soap again. Too much coconut oil produces an irritating bar for my sensitive skin. Ad from shop FatChanceSoaps We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. Hooray!! Once you render it into tallow, soap, candles, and the best french fries youve ever put in your mouth all become very real possibilities. Try again with your lye water and oils at around 100 degrees and your crock pot on the lowest setting. Thank you four any help and/or advice. From shop CJAndJJBeautyBalm, If you don't want others to see this collection, make it private. Ive never made soap, but plan to from our Goats Milk. Was told never to use aluminum. Copyright 2022 The Prairie Homestead All rights reserved Site Design by Emily White Designs, Season 10: Episode 1: My Relationship with Homesteading is Changing, How to Whitewash Your Barn and Chicken Coop.

Enter your best email for instant access! Im just a luttle intimidsted by the lye. Just in case. Now, if this happens again, a soap volcano can be salvaged. From shop jklmfarmvt, ad by Chloemasonsoaps Lye provides the necessary chemical reaction to turn fat into soap. Reacting wood ash with calcium hydroxide produces potassium hydroxide. Im sorry not to be more help.

Why is there more lye and less water in the coconut oil soap recipe? From shop Soapyoaks, ad by SanAntonioSoapShop I am so happy to see a recipe with lard and or tallow. Jen, What other oils would you recommend if not coconut oil. 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! Thank you so much! I am dumbfounded. Id been wanting to make soap for a long long time but thought it would be difficult how wrong could I be! Please can you offer any advice on 100% tallow soap? Please. I carefully rinse everything thats come in contact with the lye, and wash with hot, soapy water before running through dishwasher. As somebody who loves to save everything, Id love to try this pevipe. Once the lye water has turned from cloudy to clear, leave it to cool for 10 minutes. where you take actual flowers (like lilac or lavender) and put a ton in a jar and cover with oil. Ad from shop jklmfarmvt 1000 pounds of wood leaves about 5 pounds of ash, from which about 1 pound of potash (potassium carbonate) can be extracted. It is part of the Level 3 (master) certification for the HSCG [Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetics Guild]. Probably not going to try and do/make it but just wondering. Ad from shop FierceNatureUK Yes, you have to use lye when you make soap. I bought lard recently to make a more economic bar, and loved it so much more than my coconut/ and other expensive oils. ( I have health problems that made me think my soap making days were over, so I sold everything -cheap! It sounds to me like the oils were too hot and the crock pot was too hot.

As long as you rinse it your fine if the pot looks good. SanAntonioSoapShop From shop Chloemasonsoaps, ad by CalaverasRiverFarms Glass can etch from the lye over time and get hairline fractures that you cant see, and eventually shatter at the worst possible moments.

Ad from shop CJAndJJBeautyBalm Why is it that the recipe without coconut oil has a higher superfat than the one with coconut oil? Thank you. Maybe that was overkill but. Learn more. Just found your site and cant wait to give some of this a try. Carefully pour the lye water into the tallow. From shop CalaverasRiverFarms, ad by CJAndJJBeautyBalm Dont get me wrong, I dont have anything against fancy soap recipes, but for me, making soap is more about function versus a fun hobby for my spare time. Im a luttle nervous about that special ingrefientsvcalled lye. ad by PrairieSiren UpmarketSkincare Learn how your comment data is processed. Hope that makes sense! , for a recipe I cant wait to try!

I have never made moringa soap because the moringa soap recipes that I have found call for the fancy butters and oils. Recipe for soap making with the use of essential oils. I soaped cool, I soaped warm, same reaction, mashed potatoes almost instantly! Ad from shop JerseyMilkSoaps They are not dense enough to use as a scrubber so, can I crumble them finely and add to the soap for scrubbing agent? Get my latest blog posts, videos, nourishing recipes, natural remedies, and DIY tutorials delivered right to your inbox! Have you ever made goat milk & tallow soap? To get sodium soap from potassium hydroxide, you add salt once the cook is done. I see a lot of 98.5% lye. I am hoping you can help me . From shop SummerSolaceTallow, ad by SoftSkinSoap I would love to here if you like the results or not. Queensland, Australia. Its such a fun thing to do once you get comfortable with it.

Does it have to be 100% lye? Then came a new batch of tallow and all the problems came with it. From shop LiposTallow, ad by JerseyMilkSoaps Then I began to use the immersion blender at first on low but then increased to second speed as it began to thicken more. How do you safely clean up after making lye soap? I have a skincare shop (which you can check out here). Chloemasonsoaps

This can happen with hot process soap, but it can even happen with cold process too. Great! 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.

Its very stinky to render, and super soft, even when frozen. After a few minutes I stopped the mixing to check trace (pudding like consistency). Any reply would be appreciated, thanks. Its really nice! I grew up canning and cooking from scratch and your advice on soaping is GREAT!!! Ad from shop Soapyoaks Some of my personal favorites are peppermint, lavender, and lemongrass. Ad from shop UpmarketSkincare By superfatting the recipe, there will be no lye left & a tiny ant of oils/fats left. It seems that animal fats are not getting the recognition they deserve. Follow the above directions for pure tallow soap, melting the coconut oil in with the tallow in the first step. Just run your fat amounts through a soap calculator first (like this one) to make sure you are using a proper amount of lye. Hi Jo Im sorry youre having problems! Hi Sarah sorry you are having problems! Love your recipe but just one small question. I have 2 questions. I know you are superfatting the tallow more, so it would make sense to have less lye but why more water?

If youve spent much time following me, you already know that I love grass fed beef tallow. And ehile I might not be ables to get rnough fat for pure beef soup, as I do not raise cows, tge fovonut one seems good.

This is a hot process soap recipe that uses a crockpot.If youve never made crockpot soap, please carefully read this post FIRST, it contains very important safety information. Yes, you can definitely substitute in lard instead.

Otherwise, youd be washing yourself with a giant blob of fat, which wouldnt work well, for obvious reasons. Fractionated coconut isnt really worth using in soap. Check out the Bumblebee Apothecary Shop here. What kinds have you made? 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. Im a bit frustrated. From what I can tell, no one really knows what causes DOS but I am sure, keeping the tallow in the pantry did not help, as you pointed out. Excuse my poor typing. So I am trying soap making for the first time and after adding the water and lye mixture to the tallow, I am not getting the pudding like consistency after blending for 15 minutes. Guys out there , if yall havent tried it , please do, it is awesome !! That is the question I have, can I add things in like herbs, coffee and oats. Very light. Jo here from Queensland in Australia. JerseyMilkSoaps 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. Rich and lathery and doesnt smell of tallow at all I love it! With wood ash lye, there can be different variables which may affect the outcome of the soap, so I prefer to stick with store-bough lye for the best end product.

Now things have settled down and Im just itching to get back into soap making, natural balms, Farmers Marketsand I have to start from scratch again! It can be off. Jo, Ad from shop SoulEnergyHerbs Same recipe, same scale (tested), same lye, but certainly not the same results. I dont know if the purity is the same as the store bought stuff, but thats how they did it back in the day. Im not understanding entirely. It will bubble and froth, which is fine. Weigh tallow and put into a crockpot.

I often save rendered fats for cooking but somebody told me ypu shouldnt cook with beef fat because it might not taste good. Thanks! This may seem silly but if you use your immersion blender and crockpot will it be able to be used for cooking again? The traditional way to get the hydroxide is to react wood ashes with lime (calcium hydroxide). This will be my first soap batch, so I thought I would ask first.

Got another question in regards to the Lye, back in the day were/how did they get/make there Lye?

Overcoming chronic health issues with diet changed my life. From shop StarsRUsShop, ad by jklmfarmvt 1. My husband made large, round molds for me from PVC pipe that he cut in half and put hinges on one side. RemnantBeautyUK >>. Thank you Jill for replying and duh..of course I need to render it first and yes, I have the tutorial for doing that. It only makes sense to put it to good use, otherwise, itd just go in the trash. sue4sue4 Ive got a little bit before I start to plant we live in Michigan!

Have you found a recipe yet?

I used to make & sell soap, and then things changed and I quit doing the Farmers Markets. Not really a substitute for lard/tallow. If I use unfrefined coconut oil for the scent will that mess anything up? Yes, measure everything by weight, including the water. I havent, but Im betting itd work almost the same as lard. Iv used sheeps milk soaps from farmers markets and its helped myy itchy skin.

Im a mom of 4 and a certified GAPS coach. However, during the soap making process, we do have to handle the lye, and its important to use some care. Who knows WTH is going on, certainly NOT me. The two CP batches of soap that i made from the same rendered suet have developed DOS. Mix until it has reached trace, the light pudding consistency. But when I switched to lard the bar was smooth and left my skin feeling great. From shop UpmarketSkincare, ad by LiposTallow Barbara, I use the softer loofas by putting them in a round mold and pouring soap over them, then after setting its easy to cut into bars. I dont have any experience with colloidal silver, so not sure how thatd work. Did you measure how hot your oils were before adding the lye? I grew a lot of loofas. Sheesh! From shop BeautyHerb, ad by FatChanceSoaps

Lye doesnt have to be scary, but you do need to be respectful of it. Hey, Ive been soaping a while now & love your soap advice!! Will this react with hardwater like castile soap? Thanks for the great info!! Wearing gloves and safety goggles, carefully and slowly pour the lye into the water. I often use bacon fat in:plsve of butter for eggs. Thank you for your time! Soap making uses lye in order to turn the oils into soap. I love soap making and do pretty much every time different look to my bars!

It worked great! LiposTallow

FierceNatureUK Sorry! Find out more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. Also, I received a free bottle of fractionated coconut oil and am wondering if I can use that in this recipe. Ad from shop RemnantBeautyUK Etsys 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsys global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. After a few minutes, it will grow creamy, and start to thicken.

Can you explain a bit more what you cannot access? Jill, Is the water also by weight, or is it liquid oz? From shop MomBodyandSol, ad by sue4sue4 Once you remove the kidneys from the inside, follow these directions for rendering the fat to remove the impurities. Just checked and what is left in the crock pot has a curdled appearance and a layer on top. You've already signed up for some newsletters, but you haven't confirmed your address.

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