Yooper
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My husband brought home a big fat deer last night, and so today when he skinned it I asked him for much of the fat. He brought in suet (around kidneys) as well as tallow.
Since I was rendering the tallow, I decided to do my first HP.
I used a proven recipe of my own:
Deer tallow: 45%
CO 20%
OO pomace 30%
CO 5%
8% superfat
I used rosemary, rosewood and bergemot EOs (just a little).
I made one small (25 ounce) bread loaf pan. It went well, but I didn't want to add some of my favorite ingredients- goat's milk, beer, honey- because I wasn't sure how it'd react.
The bar is fairly ugly on top, but it's firm and unmolded. I will cut tomorrow.
For a simple soap like this, I don't think HP was at all time saving. CP would have been quicker to pouring, and would still be cut tomorrow.
I think the benefit of HP (adding EOs at pour, so to hopefully have some scent) may not overweigh the confidence I have with using goat's milk and other ingredients, at least at this point.
It took about 3 hours from the time I gathered my ingredients to the time I put the soap in the mold. With CP, it's definitely less than an hour (often 1/2 hour) to pour.
Since it takes a bit longer, and the clean up is about the same, I'm trying to picture in my mind what the advantages are to HP. I know that I could add superfat after the cook, if I wanted a specific oil to be the superfat oil. Cutting may be quicker. I can use less EOs (although, I won't use fragrance oils anyway and don't want any sort of strong scent due to my asthma anyway).
What do others see as the advantage to HP over just CP?
Since I was rendering the tallow, I decided to do my first HP.
I used a proven recipe of my own:
Deer tallow: 45%
CO 20%
OO pomace 30%
CO 5%
8% superfat
I used rosemary, rosewood and bergemot EOs (just a little).
I made one small (25 ounce) bread loaf pan. It went well, but I didn't want to add some of my favorite ingredients- goat's milk, beer, honey- because I wasn't sure how it'd react.
The bar is fairly ugly on top, but it's firm and unmolded. I will cut tomorrow.
For a simple soap like this, I don't think HP was at all time saving. CP would have been quicker to pouring, and would still be cut tomorrow.
I think the benefit of HP (adding EOs at pour, so to hopefully have some scent) may not overweigh the confidence I have with using goat's milk and other ingredients, at least at this point.
It took about 3 hours from the time I gathered my ingredients to the time I put the soap in the mold. With CP, it's definitely less than an hour (often 1/2 hour) to pour.
Since it takes a bit longer, and the clean up is about the same, I'm trying to picture in my mind what the advantages are to HP. I know that I could add superfat after the cook, if I wanted a specific oil to be the superfat oil. Cutting may be quicker. I can use less EOs (although, I won't use fragrance oils anyway and don't want any sort of strong scent due to my asthma anyway).
What do others see as the advantage to HP over just CP?
