Duck Fat Soap

[TashaBird]

I’ve been searching the forum and only finding brief mentions of duck fat use in soap. I may have access to some soon. Anyone used it in soap, or a blend? What’d you use? Did you like it?
Thank you!
Edit: Finally found some older threads once I went past a slew of 4 letter word association games that mentioned “duck”. Haha
I’m still open to suggestions, and experiences with duck fat. Other oils I have on hand are tallow, coconut, avocado, and rice bran.

 

[GeezLouise]

Not quite what you're asking: I once used chicken tallow as sort of an emu oil replacement in a hand cream. It was a nice cream but the chicken tallow scent was undesirable so I added some EOs to it. Figured chickens and emus are both birds and might have similar properties.

 

[Obsidian]

I used it once, the soap is nice and I'd use it again if I had any. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy expensive fat but its worth saving on the rare occasion I cook duck.

Here is my recipe. The numbers are odd but I only had a little duck so I was working around that.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s216...bed1311addb7/f67fe92704f8a2726fb21e4fcaf1721c

 

[Terri E]

I have used both duck and goose fat with great results. I used 1/2 beef tallow and 1/2 duck or goose fat making up 65% of the recipe along with babassu/ coconut and castor oil also a little cocoa butter Makes a great soap!

 

[TashaBird]

Thanks y’all! I’m in a women’s duck hunting group. So, I put it out there to them. Hopefully I get a taker that wants to try some soap!!

 

[Primrose]

I have used it a few times, it's lovely. Fairly similar to lard I found

 

[Carly B]

I'd use duck fat to cook potatoes. I use lard and tallow in my soap, but at my house, duck (or goose) fat goes into the frying pan or Dutch oven, not the soap batter.

 

[AliOop]

@Carly B -- cooking is the highest and best use for duck fat and bacon fat.

 

[TashaBird]

We make a lot of bacon and we triple wet render the fat and make quite a bit of soap out of it. I’ve got some hunting friends who get a LOT of ducks! Tasty as it is, can only eat so much. So, I put the word out. Some of them have been sea duck hunting and wondering if that fat would work. The fat isn’t as tasty as regular ducks. I’m gonna try and soap it.

 

[AliOop]

We make a lot of bacon as well, but never so much that we have extra bacon grease for making soap.

My husband is very patient with all my repurposing of tools, etc., but he'd probably draw the line there.

 

[TashaBird]

We make a lot of bacon as well, but never so much that we have extra bacon grease for making soap.

My husband is very patient with all my repurposing of tools, etc., but he'd probably draw the line there.

We bake ours in the oven on a wire cookie rack sitting on a cookie sheet. Best way imo! That may give off extra. But yeah, we eat some bacon!

 

[AliOop]

We bake ours in the oven on a wire cookie rack sitting on a cookie sheet. Best way imo! That may give off extra. But yeah, we eat some bacon!

We have done the same for years, and I will never go back to cooking bacon on a stovetop! Although I do have to clean my oven a LOT. It’s how I found out about the oven liner sheets, that I now also use as custom soap mold liners.

ETA: due to my husband's health issues, he eats a fairly high-fat, lower carb diet. Everything I make for him has added fats, or is sauteed in fat. We not only bake 3-4 packs of bacon a week, we also use bacon grease as our main cooking fat. The flavor goes with a wide variety of foods, whereas neither of us is super fond of coconut oil for cooking unless it is an Asian dish.

 

[TashaBird]

We have done the same for years, and I will never go back to cooking bacon on a stovetop! Although I do have to clean my oven a LOT. It’s how I found out about the oven liner sheets, that I now also use as custom soap mold liners.

ETA: due to my husband's health issues, he eats a fairly high-fat, lower carb diet. Everything I make for him has added fats, or is sauteed in fat. We not only bake 3-4 packs of bacon a week, we also use bacon grease as our main cooking fat. The flavor goes with a wide variety of foods, whereas neither of us is super fond of coconut oil for cooking unless it is an Asian dish.

I’m low carb also. I do a lot of ghee, tallow, and bacon fat. But, I’m only moderate fat, so we’ve got the extra. I’m really hoping some of my hunting buddies will take me up on making some soap for them!