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I bought some sheep tallow from an Alpine farmstead where I always buy it. The lady rendered it and then froze it. When I thawed it there was some liquid in the lower part of the glass jar and some dirt on the bottom. I cleaned the stuff twice in salted water. There was a rather strong...

I made this soap in March this year using the recipe attached. I used beef tallow including the hardened fat from the top surface of beef soup, HO olive oil that has been used for frying doughnuts, castor oil, coconut oil, vinegar, sugar, fragrances Red orange, Ocean and Lemon grass. All fats...

I rendered my two kilos of leaf lard for the second time and poured it into portions of a bit over 400 grams. It had not yet hardened when I took the picture and looks yellowish but now it is so lovely white!

Did not manage to control my impatience and unmoulded one of the three sunflower moulds to obtain this: [/GALLERY]']

I made another batch of OPW, achieving more intense colours this time. Using the remaining batter I also poured a few individual silicone moulds. I used flashlight and the photo came out dim :(

I unmoulded my yesterday soap and cut the loaf after 14 hrs of pouring. I identified the softness/hardness spot on, when I returned from my CT scanning; I took my old knife with a very thin blade and cut pluckily. I used some of my new micas I've only used once or twice before. Trying to avoid...

I used almost one litre of high-oleic sunflower oil for frying shrovetide doughnuts last Sunday. I'd like to reuse the remaining oil for soap. I strained it when it cooled down to remove any bits and am now thinking of how to remove the odour. Also, as the dough was sweetened I'm at a loss as...

Shrovetide is full of traditional festivities, carnivals and special food in my country. My favourite are doughnuts. I just love the unmistakable aroma of fresh doughnuts in my kitchen. I fry them either on Saturday, Sunday or Tuesday. They are not filled with jam or dipped in liquid chocolate...

I've been growing a curry plant in a large bucket and infusing its scented leaves in oil to make face cream. Although it doesn't grow in Mediterranean climate its scent is strong and comes out nice in cream. I use the cream myself and also suppply it to a few other persons. Now, whereas I also...

I must admit I don't know the difference between soap inlay and embed - if there be any?

I've bought two vials of lavender essential oil produced on the island Hvar which is famous for lavender. I've never used it before in cold process soap and would appreciate any opinions.

I've been just given goat tallow + sheep tallow in raw state. I'm going to cut and melt it. It is obtained from a he-goat and from a ram. The Soapmaking Recipe Builder & Lye Calculator gives SAPs for sheep 0.138 and for goat 0.137. I'm so grateful for the calculator to do all the calculation...

I don't have an Aloe vera plant but many common houseleeks. Somewhere I read that its juice/gel has similar properties as Aloe vera, only to a lesser extent. So I thought I could use it for soap. Any experience with it anybody? Your opinion will be appreciated.

Some months ago I made a few toy car soaps for the five grandsons from my second daughter. It proved a great success: if before she had trouble making them go wash their hands now they would run to the bathroom shouting: Let's go wash hands with mama Ladka's van! In fact they keep one in the...

I wanted to harden soap I'm planning on and made the calculation in the Soap making recipe builder and lye calculator, substituting 50 % of water with vinegar. My trouble is I only have 9 % alcoholic vinegar so it doesn't fit in the calculator. How can I calculate the quantity of - 9% vinegar -...

I've skimmed fat from cooled down beef soup (or broth?) twice and froze one portion and refrigerated the other. The fat was refrigerated non-covered and seemed to shrink during the week before it was used. The frozen and thawed portion also shrank and I decanted some liquid. So I believe it was...

I made a small batch of leaf lard soap with the ingredients Oil % Grams Lard, Pig Tallow (Manteca) 78.1 189 Coconut Oil, 92 deg 14.88 36 Castor Oil...

I've got eight grandsons of which five are eight or less. Toy cars of every size, color and trademark are extremely popular and I thought a soap car might be interesting. This is my second try (the first one was found too small for a soap bar in their family).

As I started planning on my next batch of soap I remembered I must have some sheep tallow in my freezer. I really had a bottle of rendered sheep tallow from a sheep breeder friend. The label bears the date 1 December 2015. I slowly thawed it to get some out of the bottle: it looks whitish and...

I am in possession of ten fragrance oils that I've been buying here and there. I noticed that some of them discoloured the batter badly but never managed to take notes properly so that I could know exactly which ones do it. Yesterday I decided to test most of them and so I did. Results: the...