Recent content by BirchandTallow

Cocoa Butter and palm make really great skin lotions. You can thin it out with HO Sunflower Oil to make it softer at room temp. The trick is to use a hand-mixer with a whisk attachment on the lowest setting. Clear your schedule, because you will be mixing for about an hour to get it to a nice...

That does sound like a fun experiment, and youre right. I should post here first. I tried to make lue water with heavy cream the other day and it made huge soap curds much like you just described. I didnt know how to get the extra lye out, so I tossed it all. I'll have to try the salting out...

Very interesting suggestions 🤔 But this round it all went in the dumpster. I was out voted and forbidden from keeping it lol.

So, Saturday I cleaned out the fridge and noticed we were at the end of the milk and it was expired. I put it on the counter with every intention of soaping with it, and then totally forgot it was there.🙃 Sunday morning, I saw the milk on the counter, remembered my plan. I put it back in the...

A couple of things..... Its been 2 months and the sour milk soap turned out PHENOMENAL! As cheap as it was to make (about $8 for 5lbs), it's actually become my favorite soap. 😍 It's a gentle clean that's strong enough to cut through store bought deodorant but still leaves my skin super soft...

Hi! I'm just now seeing this thread, so sorry to come in late to the conversation. Idk about a lotion bar, mainly because I try to stay away from wax. But, I make an all-purpose healing cream that I keep in my house that works wonders on blisters. My son is 10 and is training for cross-county...

What?!?! I had no idea soap making was taught in university. That's so cool! So, you really understand the math behind it to begin with. That makes sense. If you want a bar of this Brie Tallow, they're available for pre-order on Etsy. Just pop my username into the search bar and it should...

I think the lamb tallow gives it that extra creaminess. I've batched with beef tallow, a beef lamb mix, and I just made a test batch with goat tallow. Imo all tallow is amazing, but the lamb just gives it something more luxurious. I'm curious about your choice to not use soap calculators. How...

OMG! It looks amazing! A hand held, you say? Amazon is about to get my 💰. It looks like perfect gel phase! 😃

Ok, we're only 2 weeks into cure but here is a hand washing video and a few photos taken 5 mins ago. Not a whole lot of bubbles, but it feels like creamy silk. Thanks for the support. I can't wait for it to finish. 😍

Your meat soap turned out quite nice. Would you mind talking a little more about how you steamed your soap, please? Pardon my noobibess, but this is a new concept for me. I'm avoiding ash with alcohol at the moment, but have earlier bars that are covered.

I realize this is an old thread, but I'm new to the forum and found the question interesting. I had some expired milk (about 10 days past expiration and pretty smelly, but not chunky), and decided to batch with it. I was at the end of my sodium hydroxide bottle, so I used a water to oil at 38%...

Sooooooo, I've been soapin'. And I'm focusing on getting the blue square into a particular range on the SoapCalc. I'm sure that blue square has a name, but I dont know what it is. So, I came up with this recipe that some might consider a bit heavy on the butters, but I still wanted to try. I'm...

You mentioned the turkey roaster before, but I thought you were talking about a pan for the oven. I've never heard of an electric turkey roaster, so I looked on Amazon and saw a 22-quart one for $54! Thanks for the tip, I had no idea.😊

It was hard to source at first, to be honest. The chains won't sell it. I get my beef from Homeland (which I've only seen in Oklahoma) and sometimes I get it from my local Halal Mart. I get my lamb fat from the Halal Mart exclusively and it's expensive. I'm in the process of calling local...