Recent content by old78

be careful when buying neatsfoot oil, when my son was playing school and college ball, I bought what I thought a gallon of neatsfoot oil at Tractor Supply and after I had started using it, I read the label, it was imitation oil. not really good for good leather. I should have known that good...

you can make soap very cheap if you don't get carried away with all the coloring, fancy smelling scents, molds, exotic oils.. the soap we made cost pennies as used bacon grease save from the bacon, we had the castor oil and lye for yrs, we did buy the coconut oil, but it really wasn't necessary...

I made large 40 bars (man size) of soap on the 3rd of Feb and the PH is 8, it smells good, like soap and has lots of bubbles, It was CP, can I use it or should I wait the 4-6 weeks thanks

lard is from a hog and tallow is from beef.

I just gave all my soaps a nice lick and they just tasted soapy, I'll give them a PH test in about a month.

I didn't use just the buttery spread, I also used other fats and oils for a total of 80 ounces. I just took off the towel to get a quick smell and it's solid and smells like soap.

I took a wild guess about the water and took an ounce off the lye water, I'll take it out of the mold tomorrow and see how it is.

In the past week I have made a couple batches of soap using coconut oil, lard, caster oil and soybean oil and they seem to be doing fine, will know for sure in a month.. today I was bored so I made a batch using a 15oz tub of bestlife buttery spread, lard ,coconut oil, caster oil. I guess...

my oils are pretty much smelling like kerosene now so I'm just going to use them in another way.. I just want to make a few bars of soap to kill some winter days, just me and my wife here, my kids and GKs wouldn't try homemade soap and my GGKs don't put down their smart phones long enough to wash.

thank you

I just checked them all, they're rancid, back to plan one , make ethanol someday or throw it on brush piles.

suppose we had gallons of different oils stored and had no idea which oil was in them corn, veg, olive, peanut ect, is there a formula for a mixture or just pick one and go with it?? thanks.

is there anyplace on the forum explaining what all the abbreviations mean?? CP, HP ect.thanks I know what those two mean but am running into others as I read back posts.

By Red Dye, I am not sure exactly what you mean, but if you mean dye meant for fabrics, no, not skin safe. I advise against the use of any synthetic dye meant for fabrics. You can use indigo powder, though, to get grey to blue shades in lye soap. I have not heard or read about any organic...

I had strained the grease thru a coffee filter and cleaned it before freezing it in the past four days, probably 60 hours, I read and watched almost everything, I do use the soap lye calc. the lye part was what always scared me about soap making, I used to hang around with my mother and GM many...