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@jcsoapmaker , I'm relatively new to soapmaking and I only make soap as a hobby. I give it to family and friends, etc. But, I was...

To enter the November 2024 SMF Challenge, copy and paste these instructions and the entire list into a new post, adding your name and...

My guess would be that the wooden mould kept the warmth longer than the silicone one, so one is gelled and the other is not.

So using a vegetable peeler to make soap slices was not in my opinion desirable but using it for hand wash was good, it might become a...

Welcome back! I'm just a year into soapmaking. No doubt the kind people here saved me from innumerable mistakes. As a homesteader...

lol, yeah, I love the smell of meat. Comes from growing up with my dad. He always came home smelling that way and the store always...

Walmart and the grocery stores I go to all sell the same brands -- Armour, Morrell, etc. -- and they all have additives. Citric acid is...

This is so good to know! I'm trying to get some tallow from a butcher my extended family uses. I'm pretty sure I'll have to render it...

Truth! Plus the smell in the house! 😵‍💫 This is why I render mine outside in an electric turkey toaster pan, while wearing clothes that...

😱, what FOR REAL!! I have only rendered tallow some time ago. I thought it labor or rather time intensive. I would just as soon...

My dad's a butcher/meat cutter. I wouldn't render my own fats at home. While it smells wonderful to me, you will never get it out of any...

This is going to be a closed thread for the homemade version of commercial VCS (vanilla color stabilizer), which we are calling ZCS in...

You can use a soap recipe c@lculator to figure out how the superfat changes in response to adding some milkfat without compensating for...

Thanks everyone for the info much appreciated. It's Jersey cows. I did scoop off some of the cream as I assumed it will impact the fat...

Thank you for that information, @DeeAnna. That makes me braver soaping at lower superfat using whole goat milk at around 4% milkfat.