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Today I had to go to W-mart to purchase a replacement candy thermometer. ~$6- each. I bought two to have a spare in an emergency. Also I happened to see right beside the thermometers, Anchor Hocking glass measuring cups. I got a 1 oz one. Perfect size for measuring FOs. 97 cents plus tax...

Very nice...

@AliOop I've studied the PDF file and now I'm looking at the soap calc and in comparison to my old recipe from unknown origin that my LYE concentration has been good all along. What has the overage of water in my old recipe been doing to the finished product and what should I expect going to a...

Thanks, I'll study this in the a.m. Dozing off here staring at the screen.

I've been using the same recipe the last few weeks that I used 2.5 years ago before I found soapmakingforum.com that has a soapmaking calculator. I was trying to plug my numbers into it and it is all a little confusing to me. I am expanding my old recipe from 12 bars to 18 bars now that I will...

Thanks for the tip. Actually 95% of the beef products and pork chops that we eat are cooked on the grill so we really don't see much of it. I would like to make some TALLOW soap sometime. I think I can get the butcher at the Grocery Store to give me a big pack of raw beef fat.

Any frying oil, hamburger grease anything other than bacon grease either gets thrown in the garbage or every now and then gets poured on a brush pile to light and burn.

@AliOop That's 11 years for you. I made my first batch November 2019. I think that is ~2.5 years. I've been saving bacon grease for 5 though, so I have been thinking about it for a while...LoL.

~2 p.m. central I was able to get my 7th batch of this recent effort mixed and poured. After about the next 4 or 5 batches I'm going to refigure my calcs' and make each batch ~38 oz. My blender that I have been using, pitcher style instead of a handheld device, for me, works well and it keeps...

@TheGecko Very nice collection of soaps. I like the variety. I don't think that I saw two the same.

@Zany_in_CO I've been putting in different FO and EO names and I'm coming up with .5 to 1 oz per batch depending on which scent it is. Thanks for the info. I had my wife pick out a FO/EO, the next batch will be for her. By the way, my fortune cookie which is more like a statement than a fortune...

@Zany_in_CO I put in one FO and it was close to what i had guessed. I'll check out more later after I eat Chinese carry out and watch a show. Thanks for your help.

A package of FOs arrived a day early. I'll be able to try out a new scent in the morning. How much should I use per 25 oz of LARD batch? I wish that I had a new syringe to measure it. I might have a little cup from cough syrup that I could use to measure. It may have just milliliters scaled on...

I did my 3rd boil for batch 7/8. Also I unmolded batch 6 after the bars were refrigerated for 48 hours. They came out of the molds clean. I believe that I have a dehydration factor going on using the refrigeration process. I'm saying that this is a good thing for my particular process.

I was up at the crack of dawn to get my 6th mix and pour completed. a bit of "delay of game" occurred. There were zero eggs to go with the bacon. I had to make a quick trip to Dollar General. Some you may think that we eat a lot of bacon. Not really, we each eat a strip a day and on Saturdays...

@AliOop I'm mixing my LYE/water with my melted LARD anywhere in between 115 to 125 degrees F, and within 10 degrees of each other. Last time that I mixed it, it dawned on me that after I mix together and pulse, pulse, pulse the mixer then the batch is the same temperature completely. Then I have...

Why is it that I don't get an ashy residue on my bars? Is it because of my type of water?

I was set up to make batch 6 this morning then I ran out of time. I had to go to a house lot that I have for sale and meet a guy with a skid steer to do some clearing work. I did manage to get the grease for batch 7 rendered for the first round. I'm doing round 2 now. This morning I noticed some...

I would have to use hot water to dissolve the sugar then chill it back down for the LYE addition. I think that what I have is very soft water that comes from a limestone well. The same type of water used to make Jack Daniels. I don't have any trouble making soap bubbles. The soapy thing that I...

It seems as if I was just here. I'm currently doing the 2nd rendering of the grease for batch 6. I have the timer on the range set so I don't get distracted as I type. I'm 10 ft away looking right at it. Tonight, one more time and I will be able to make that (6th) batch. When I opened the...