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My mother has some pinecones that in the days of yore she would drop a little eye dropper full of some sort of scent on them to make them smell nice for Christmas. We're not really sure what this product actually was, but she asked me if I could make any sort of nice smelling something to put...

This recipe sounds like fun. Do you think it would be okay to add some mica to them for color?

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It's really stunning, @River. You clearly have a talent for this!

I happen to know that "pulchra" means "beautiful" in Latin. Very apropos. 🥰

I'm too new to have the answer to that for you. 🤔 Maybe someone else will have an idea.

Well, that's great to know! 😃

Thanks for the pictures! The soap looks amazing! 🙌😃

I just put in a huge (for me) order of mica samples. Mostly purples, blues, and greens. Got a lot of natural colorants too. I saved thirty-three dollars! 😃

Okay, great information you two. Thanks! I'll look into which preservative to use and measure it out appropriately.

I've never had any beef tallow, so I can't say I for sure know. By the look of it when I see people use it, I would think it's similar. This recipe says non greasy, would you say you don't believe that then? Do you have any recommendations to make it not greasy?

So with my new abundance of goat tallow, I have it on my mind to try a shelf stable liquid lotion, just for personal use, not to sell. Never made one of those before, only refrigerated lotions or lotion bars. I found this recipe from Bumblebee Apothecary, and I'm thinking of giving it a shot...

Yep, that's the goat tallow! 😃 I believe if you are doing tallow from a more purely grassfed animal it will turn out less white, but that's just what I've heard.

Finished up the whole tallow rendering and purifying process. Such beautiful stuff. Pure white and zero smell.

I'll be sure to make a thread on it when I get around to it! I loved the goat tallow in recipes I've made before, but I've never tried it at 100%. I think it will be an interesting experiment!

Those are all so beautiful! I see a blue hummingbird drinking out of a yellow flower in the rainbow soap! 😀

I use goat milk in almost all of my soaps, so I will definitely use is in this one this one too! 😁

I think it's a very pure coconut scent. I can maybe smell some banana and vanilla in there mixing in nicely, but overall, the thing I think when I smell it is only coconut.

Today I trimmed all of the fat I wanted off of the goat meat I processed on Monday. I got 7.7lbs of tallow off one goat! I can't wait to get it rendered and making soap out of it! 😃 I'm thinking about trying a 100% goat tallow soap, no colorants, no fragrances, just for the experiment of it.

I have not used it yet, but straight out of the bottle, it smells exactly like I was hoping for! I'm very excited to try it out!