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Coming from a different angle on this: Many people associate lard with unhealthy food, and surprisingly few people recognise tallow as being a fat. Instead it's what expensive candles are made from. So tallow has 'label appeal' over lard. A soap of olive oil, tallow, cocoa butter and essential...

I had something similar on my most recent batch (my 4th so far). Not quite so quick or so thick as you got but it went from adding lye to a light trace in under a minute of stick blending. This is also the only batch I've made that got to a partial gel. This all contrasts pretty sharply with my...

Curious to see people describe silicone as overpriced. I've only used silicone moulds intended for baking so far, so my loaf mould is really meant for loaves, of bread. The moulds I'm using cost £3 each and come in a range of shapes and sizes. They are durable, easy to clean, resistant to the...

Yeah, this. My understanding is that in some ways it's false to atrribute the properties of hardness or cleansing or whatever to the oil itself instead those properties belong to the saponified result. I.E. if you were talking about the properties of coconut oil you should more properly talk...

Can I just add - have a second mould handy just in case, a little cheap silicon muffin mouild can save the day if you do make too !much.

Funny this should come up, I've just taken delivery of a stainless steel one. The steel was around the same price as wood and marble but two things swayed me to that choice, firstly even if the soap is still a touch caustic when its cut the SS shouldn't suffer any ill effects and secondly it...

That's a handy thing to know. My very first soap experiments were mostly lard and when I tried using them I found you had to work to get a lather from them. Of course, being impatient I had only waited a couple of days to try them out. Now the rest of the bars are starting to age a little I may...

well the consensus is pretty overwhelming.... just make sure its not too hot and go ahead. I'll try that next time around and see if I notice any differences in the way things progress.

I haven't tried this yet, but I was planning to use the old style coffee filter, kind of a plastic cone with a fitted paper filter. After all if it can remove fine ground coffee it should work for most things.

Hi everyone, I'm still pretty new at this whole soap thing and have a question.... I was talking to a friend of mine about how to more easily get the lye and the oils to the right temperature before mixing the two. Her response was that she didn't really try. So while I am messing around with...