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Too kind. Thank you for the resource! This will certainly help a lot.

Hey AliOop! Thanks for the advice as always! I got you on the KOH, I will save that for when we start teaching liquids! For the rancidity, I have done a fair amount of research and am led to understand that sodium citrate at a rate of 1 to 2% of oils will prevent rancidity and extend shelf...

@TheGecko thank you very much for your input. I will look at the Castile soap recipe with the lower cure time, which might be well applied to sunflower or possibly soya oil. (Will keep you posted). For the beef tallow, I recently rendered 10kgs of suet fats to produce a nearly odorless tallow...

LOL, too kind, thanks for the support! :D Sometimes the realists help ground things, which is good. But just because something is done a certain way does not mean it cannot be refined, fine-tuned, changed, and made better. When there is a problem (this one is poverty) there needs to be a...

Absolutely, I wasn't being tongue-in-cheek with my reply either. I honestly do appreciate the negative critique. Your input makes me take a step back and realize that there will need to be invocation as well as goodwill. I have started working out low-cost inputs, bio digesters for any cooking...

Hey Alioop. I haven't made any soap yet. I am still researching the potential of the project. There was an exercise that was funded by US Aid sometime back (2012) that outlined a community assistance program. That program relied heavily on PKO, PO, and coconut oil, so I am not sure we will be...

Thank you! Thanks again for your time and help! In Zim there is a lot of cattle farming and so grass-fed beef is the most abundant source of fats. I have learned how to wet-process beef fat (suet fats) and have made a batch as a test this weekend. (Still completing so only halfway through at...

Awesome user name! Many thanks for your advice, Craig. I will experiment with a few options and will update on results when done.

AliOop, as long as you are giving me the good stuff like you have been doing you can stalk me to your heart's content! 🤣 Zimbabwe has no palm or coconut trees so PLO, PO, and CO are not indigenous and therefore those oils are incredibly expensive here. I am however happy to receive your thoughts...

Hi all, I hope you are all having a good week! If making laundry bar soap from beef tallow, the cleaning number is generally too low for the application. Is there an additive that can be used to increase the cleaning properties of tallow soap? I am aware that adding other oils will achieve...

Thanks very much! Thank you very much for your comments and welcome! The poorer rural population in our country will buy one 'multipurpose' soap bar and that is then cut and used for everything (dishes, laundry, and bathing). The most commonly available oils are animal fats, sunflower oil, soya...

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Hi all. Thanks for having me here! I am based in Zimbabwe. Things are tough here, so I thought I would learn how to make low-cost soaps using local materials with the aim of creating a soap program that I can roll out to rural villages to help them achieve economic sustainability. I look forward...