Looking for beeswax and tallow suggestions..

[CTAnton]

So I've got a good amount of beeswax here that I've made candles out of in the past. We all know what THAT costs. I've got a lot of self rendered tallow as well, beef, deer and sheep. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how much I can cut the beeswax with tallow. I've only found 1 recipe incorporating ALOT of tallow with a SMALL amount of beeswax. I'm leaning more towards a higher percentage of beeswax than tallow...something like a 75% beeswax/25% tallow recipe...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

 

[lsg]

I think that 75% beeswax will be way too much for soap. 8% beeswax seems to be the maximum suggested amount to use. If you make hard cheese, you can coat it with melted beeswax. You can also sell your surplus beeswax or craigslist, etsy or ebay.
https://www.facebook.com/BrambleBerry/posts/10150983956450504

 

[SaltedFig]

Beeswax doesn't saponify in the same way that fats do, being a wax.

It's got a little bit of saponifiable material, but you won't get a bath soap out of 75% wax (with any fat you want to add).

So what you would get, is a chunk of waxy stuff, with maybe some soap/tallow/heavy lye water ... the actual result would depend on the temperature and blending. It might still end up being a good candle, or maybe the start of a furniture polish perhaps. But not bath soap.

 

[CTAnton]

This is for candles folks....I believe I posted it correctly in the candle making forum...

 

[SaltedFig]

Apologies ... I entirely missed the context.

Yes. It would make candles at that blend ration (75/25 beeswax/tallow).
They would be prone to drooping in sunlight, but be otherwise solid.
The tallow scent/texture would be noticeable (rate dependent on tallow cleansing, but still obvious on burning).

Sorry. Leave you to it.

 

[lsg]

Yes, you did. I just clicked on the "New Posts" button and didn't see that it was posted in the candle section. You could try making taper candles to see how they burned and whether the candles would put off a lot of soot or smoke.

 

[DianaMoon]

I have mostly soft oils on hand and don't want to buy new stuff right now. I do have beeswax. Do you think that adding 5% to OO/Castor/Coconut will make too thick a trace? (Yes, I know that Coconut is technically hard but it's not tallow hard).

I want to experiment with my first layered soap so I need a pudding like trace.