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Put a quart sized plastic container with a few (2-3 max) tablespoons of ACV into it. When you are ready to rinse, fill the container with warm water from your running shower. Rinse with ACV mix. Rinse again briefly with plain warm water.

Off Topic Hijack: Even when I do use commercial shampoo I use only a little compared to the globs of suds the ads would have you think necessary. And it goes on the scalp mainly and barely at all down the length. However, lately I've been doing an oddball thing which has worked quite well...

I guess I should have used an ACV rinse on my hair before I jumped to conclusions. It will be a while before I shampoo again, though because my ends are going to need some time to recover from the lard/pectin gel and the Head & Shoulders. :? I may scalp wash only next time to give them a...

The lard bar was... I am remembering rather than having the records in front of me, you understand... 75% lard 10 % olive 10 % coconut 5% castor This may not be exactly it but it's close and yes, there was a 5% superfat. (I am a new soaper and don't have all the various specialty bars...

I just didn't think it cleaned my dishes particularly well, suds or no suds. I couldn't tell at first since I was doing my less greasy things to begin with (my usual habit) but once there was a bit of grease, it didn't cut it. Then I tried it as a shampoo but quickly washed it out with my...

I tried this technique today, hoping for dishwashing liquid. Well, it looks pretty and smells good with the lime EO but it makes no suds. Period. I started by grating 5 oz. of a lard/coconut/olive and castor bar. Melted it in 30 oz. of water with ½ tsp. of pectin. It didn't take too...

A gentle pink color. Very pretty soap. I like the plain bars. Elegant.

I would be tempted to leave it and advertise: New! Fun Green Bubbles! :D

I wonder if our large Hispanic community ensures that we have lard available? It is a mainstay in their cooking. And the older Anglo cooks around here will testify that lard makes the best pie crust you can get. It's really too bad you can't get lard easily, Absinthe.

The lard in the green and white bucket is actually put out by Armour. I believe manteca might be Spanish for lard since one side of the bucket is in English and the other in Spanish. This is readily available in most grocery stores in the southern U.S. and I happen to have recorded the price...

It warmed up into the 60s this afternoon so I opened windows to "refresh" the house air after mixing that stuff. Whew. Of course, now the garage is beginning to reek of fresh pine tar soap. :shock:

It was Bickmore, which is why I asked about yours, having remembered that you used the same brand. Mine was the same consistency you described — like molasses. That makes me feel better because I was wondering if I got a strange can of Bickmore pine tar since everyone else talks about it being...

VintageLiving, on another thread you mentioned, I believe, that you used Bickmore Pine Tar. Was it thick? Pourable? I just made a batch and this brand of P.T. was totally pourable. Now I'm wondering if everything was OK.

See this thread. More than one thing I've read says to leave it in the mold much longer than usual.

I'll bookmark that and look at it in a bit. Thanks, VintageLiving!