Recent content by TNsoaper

I meant to stay, I did hot process the soap and it turned out just fine, but as soon as the temperature drops as you are pouring it in molds, it get hard very fast! Here is a new question then. When you pour in the lye, do you simply wait until the heat melts it down, as I did, or is there...

Okay, so I was making an experimental batch of shaving soap. In the soap was about 30% Tallow, 20% lard and oils such as grape, olive and 76F coconut oil. I also put in a good amount of stearic acid and some clay for the slip. My lye was sodium hydroxide and I got the oils down to about...

Tallow is easily acquired form grocery stores, simply by what you did there. I have acquired so much beef fat, that it took me a couple days to get it processed. I even got lucky with one batch and I got a lot of suet thrown in. I was ecstatic. Best of all, it was FREE! I've heard of some...