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I did 100% tallow with the suet from our beef cow last winter, she was soap less then 12 hours after butcher.. Anyway, I normally do the thermal transfer method for melting oils and did not take into account the high melting temp of beef tallow, so that was a bit touch and go for a few minutes...

Also in WA although I am one the better East side of the state. You could do a lot of great things with the local micros!

28 percent coconut is way to drying for my skin, I try and keep it around 12-15

We had our cow butchered and I rendered the suet same day, so I have some super fresh tallow I would love to make into a great batch of soap. I have nearly 15 lbs of it right now and only make 3 lb batches at the largest. I know I am going to try a 100% tallow bar, other oils and butters I...

I have, but I soap at pretty cool temps (termal transfer) not sure I would use plastic if I were into the precise temps.

I do, because I have not put the research into acid values that I need to. I personally keep my cleansing values between 11-14 for my skin, and cant seem to get a higher then 18 for bubbles, but my creamy is in the 30-40 range and conditioning is also 30-40, which I would love to boost.

Look up the oil cleans method for your face, I love it.

Hike, walk the dog, trail run, swim, yoga.... Takes me 15 minutes to hike a mile with a 30 lb pack.

Not really.

I use Henry Hefewizen and guiness. I have the rest of a 20oz that i let go flat I will be using.

I use hot lye and room temp soaps, so much less time involved then heating oils, cooling lye.

Of it were a brand new bar of soap that I unwrap I would vey no harm no foul. I will agree that on a professional level it says a lot, I take a lot of pride in my peronal life and my things always look clean and in good use. and I would personal be mortified if someone contacted me to say...

It is soap, not food this is not The Jungle... The most I would do would send a picture say Hey I don't really care, but apparently dead cells in handmade soap is apparently a big deal. If you all feel this way about hair, please wear glace while handling your soaps...the amount of skin cells...

Personally I would not be bothered by it, but I get farm fresh unwashed eggs, shovel tons of cow and horse manure onto our garden, then eat the shaggy mane mushromms that pop up after a rain fall.

HA, I just did my first "mixed batch" GM and Coffee today. I am sure it is going to be pretty ugly though!

How did the cream milk turn out?

Traded my "makes a living from selling soap, including very nice store" neighboor some garden tomatoes for a gallon of handmilked goats milk consentrate. I froze it before adding the lye, forgot to dilute it and ended up with cake batter thickness, added that to my fats, stick blended the...

How long are your bars curing? I made a batch 2 months ago and they are still slimy, most people suggest a 5+ month cure on castile bars. I love pine tar soap, I find a great lather no matter what my oils are and the texture does not really change.

Pretty!

Right now pine tar, beer and castile.