Suet same as rendered tallow?

[love4soaping]

First post here, I have made several batches of soap over the last several months. I have been interested in making a batch of soap that incorporates beef fat. I was at a nearby buther soap and figured I would ask to see if they had beef fat for sale. Turns out they did so I picked up 1lb for under $2. Now that I have been doing some more research about using beef fat I was curious, the tag on the beef fat that I bought says 'suet'. If that just another name then for tallow? Also, do I need to do anything special with the 'suet' before I use it in my soap?

Thank you for any input.

 

[Feather]

Suet, beef fat, needs to be 'rendered'.
Boil it with some water and salt until it is melted. Take the oil off the top, strain it (through a coffee filter), throw away any bits of meat and the water. The finished strained oil is tallow.

Some people render suet by placing it in a pan in the oven and letting it melt there instead, strain.

The same can be done with pig fat, rendered into lard.

 

[cm4bleenmb]

I believe you have to render it. Here is a link to just one of the many articles you can find online:

http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2012/02/how-to-render-beef-tallow.html

 

[Obsidian]

Suet is usually ground fat so you will need to render it into tallow for soap use. You can find instructions on rendering online.

 

[love4soaping]

Thank you all! Thank you for the link cm4bleenmb. I will render my suet tonight and hopefully make my first batch of soap with it tomorrow.