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Will tallow used by plumbers be "good" enough for soaping? I was under the impression it might have some other stuff mixed in it that may bad for the skin. But regardless, I may find both type of store locally. Maybe I get lucky and find something suitable! Thank you for the insight!

Greeting from Portugal! I have been looking all over the place and I'm having a bit of trouble finding a supplier from wich to buy tallow! The only one I found was Soap Kitchen, but shiping prices are way to high considering I would be buying a bit of tallow and a bit of CO. I have found some...

This has been very educating, as usual. Thank you all for that. I have been browsing the forum, there is even a thread about UK based suppliers, and I did found ONE supplier that does sell tallow (soap kitchen) and it does ship to Portugal, problem is shipping prices are quite high. Considering...

I'm in Europe. The tail of Europe actually (Portugal). For what I heard in an unrelated business ( metal polishing pastes) the use of animal based fats was subject to heavy european regulations, for other than food uses. I will broaden my spectrum. There are a lot of spanish, italian, german...

Problem is I can't find tallow from a reliable source. Seems like all the online shops for soap making supplies are into the full vegan wave and animal based ingredients are hard to come by. I don't say this with any intent to depreciate, it's just what it is. I can get lard easily though. Is...

Greeting again. And again, sorry for the double post. I got myself some new SA, this time palm SA. The datasheetcan be found here, in case someone wants to take a look. This time arround it came out exactly how I would expect it would be. I followed the original poster recipe almost entirely...

Thanks for the replies, useful as usual! I think I may have a bad batch of SA. Both for the intense smell, it smells more like tallow than tallow itself, and for the erratic behaviour. I did another batch, similar in every way as the first one and this time the soap turned out very hard. The...

Yet another question. If I don't add FO when I make the soap, can I add it afterwards? If so, how could that work, I reheat the soap and it turns soft again? Will I need to wait another few weeks after that, or I can consider the cure "done"? Thanks in advance

Thanks for the insight and the link! It's funny how things work. One year ago I used an electric shaver and usually had a 3-5 day beard at all times, mainly because shaving was such a pain, and I don't say that figurativeley, It was indeed a painful chore. Then I (re)discovered wet shaving and...

Sorry for the double post, but I have been on the lookout for Ingredients list of good Shaving Soaps. One of them is the italian brand Mondial. The list mentions, as expected, stearic, water, cocoa, potassium and sodium hidroxide and parfum. The last ingredient left me adrift: potassium...

I didn't wait. Not even a week. I just shaved with it and it was awesome! But I really need to get it at least a decent smell. The current state is a deal breaker, despite the great lather. I can't be all that accurate, weight wise, but I can be fairly accurate with volume.

I'm European, Portuguese to be more precise. I got my supplies from granvelada.com.es , a spanish based store. It was tagged as material for candle making. They had both vegetal and animal and I chose the animal, because there is a commonly accepted impression that overall, old animal based...

I have gone through a good lenght of the thread, but not completely yet. It is long and full of information, so much that a complete newcomer like myself sometimes feels a bit overwhelmed. It's hard to seperate what is good solid advice from "personal opinions" not so well funded and that...

If the gel state has something to do with the amount of lye consumed, then it must have gone through it. Zap test is completeley good. imediatley after cooling down no zap at all. The mixture is also completely homogenous, at least at naked eye. What it didn't get to is that translucent state...

Greeting all! Total newcomer here. I tried a very similar recipe to the topic's original. Puls a litle something (almond oil, just a tiny 10% at expense of the coconut oil). The soap turned out just fine and lather is just as expected. But this was my first experience with HP and I have a...