Crazy8
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So as many of you know, I am working on making some soaps for men. One of the ideas I had was to do a bacon soap. I was given an idea in another one of my threads to maybe try cooking up some bacon and use the oil from it to incorporate into the recipe. Well of course this got me thinking. So last night I did it and here is the details.
Make 2lbs of bacon and make some delicious bacon, egg, and cheese samiches.
-filter bacon oil through cheese cloth to get out all of the icky stuff
-I then had 4.5oz of oil to work with. Would this be considered a tallow?
-Run 4.5oz of oil through soapcalc
-Mix 1.7oz of water with .6oz of lye
-Let lye cool down considerably or stick in freezer or on ice to cool faster
-Mix lye water with bacon oil/tallow/grease
Note: I was using my new stick blender (the one every soaper seems to have) and I was at it for probably 20 minutes or so and barely got any kind of trace and decided to give it a rest and just pour the stuff and let it sit over night to see what would happen.
-Checked this morning expecting my heart was going to be broken and that it would be a pile of stinky liquid but we have SAPONIFICATION!!!
I will continue this project and see what results come from the bacon soap. Now my plan isn't to use ONLY bacon oil/tallow/grease in the final recipe. I just wanted to use only that in this test so I can see what kind of good or bad soap qualities come out of this and if its even worth making bacon soap with real bacon oil/tallow/grease
Further details in this bacon soap idea is to make a log that is colored in a way to look like bacon and to have "bits" of a darker sprinkles or something that will look something like bacon bits. I haven't settles if this will be something that gets sprinkled on top or incorporated into the log. Starting to wonder if I should make this a salt soap bar or add something else to give it texture. How cool would it be to have the package of the bacon soap say "made with real bacon"?
Anyway thought I would give you all an update or inform those of you that did not even know about the original idea that was given to me. I will be sure to keep you posted on this and to try and get some pics in here asap.
Make 2lbs of bacon and make some delicious bacon, egg, and cheese samiches.
-filter bacon oil through cheese cloth to get out all of the icky stuff
-I then had 4.5oz of oil to work with. Would this be considered a tallow?
-Run 4.5oz of oil through soapcalc
-Mix 1.7oz of water with .6oz of lye
-Let lye cool down considerably or stick in freezer or on ice to cool faster
-Mix lye water with bacon oil/tallow/grease
Note: I was using my new stick blender (the one every soaper seems to have) and I was at it for probably 20 minutes or so and barely got any kind of trace and decided to give it a rest and just pour the stuff and let it sit over night to see what would happen.
-Checked this morning expecting my heart was going to be broken and that it would be a pile of stinky liquid but we have SAPONIFICATION!!!
I will continue this project and see what results come from the bacon soap. Now my plan isn't to use ONLY bacon oil/tallow/grease in the final recipe. I just wanted to use only that in this test so I can see what kind of good or bad soap qualities come out of this and if its even worth making bacon soap with real bacon oil/tallow/grease
Further details in this bacon soap idea is to make a log that is colored in a way to look like bacon and to have "bits" of a darker sprinkles or something that will look something like bacon bits. I haven't settles if this will be something that gets sprinkled on top or incorporated into the log. Starting to wonder if I should make this a salt soap bar or add something else to give it texture. How cool would it be to have the package of the bacon soap say "made with real bacon"?
Anyway thought I would give you all an update or inform those of you that did not even know about the original idea that was given to me. I will be sure to keep you posted on this and to try and get some pics in here asap.
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