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Tallow and lard make the whitest bars I've ever made. Palm oil bars are very white as well. A combination of tallow/coconut/palm oil would make a white bar.

I don't really care about crystal clear- as it's not unattractive to have a cloudy/milky hand soap to me. Plus, maybe a milky looking soap can be perceived as "richer" anyway! I don't want it runny, though- so thanks for the tips on thickening! I'm going to do a glycerine/castille batch...

I've had the same issues, when trying to make liquid shampoo and dishsoap out of CP bars. I haven't had any luck with fixing the problem, so I'm making liquid soap from the get-go by using KOH (instead of NaOH) and diluting with water for the liquid soap uses.

I just read Catherine Failor's wonderful book. I still have a couple of questions, though, if anybody can help! First, is liquid soap like CP soap, in that I can reduce the batch size as long as I run it through a lye calculator? Her recipes are all 48-49 ounces- way too much for me to...

Tallow is wonderful in soap! I've participated in a few threads about this recently, as last fall I just started rendering deer tallow as well as beef tallow. It keeps indefinitely in soap, just as other good quality oils do. For food use, I freeze tallow cubes (for frying) but in soap...

Yes, it's strong enough that even a bar I made several years ago (cinnamon and orange EO) has a cinnamon aroma but not orange. I used very very little, as I wanted it to be gentle, even less than .5% and it stayed through the gel phase and storage.

The beer smell doesn't survive, although it stinks pretty bad when you make it! I've been brewing for years, and I make lots of different kinds of beer. Beer soap is great- the color can be dark brown coffee colored (from using stout) to light tan (using a light lager). The bubbles...

I can't imagine how big a 50# cube of tallow is- it'd be big! If you can picture a 50# can of crisco, that's how big it would be. It won't melt at room temperature, that I can promise, though! Even at 90 degrees, it won't melt. I think the melting point for tallow begins at about 100...

I think you're totally on the right track with shea butter. Whipping shea butter (at room temperature) makes a wonderful body butter that can work on the face as well because it doesn't clog pores as cocoa butter can/will. I think shea butter is great for all races, and I use it on my (middle...

I LOVE tallow soaps! I've rendered my own beef tallow, and loved the soap so much that I started rendering tallow from deer that I've harvested. I render the tallow, then pour it into ice cube trays to harden and stick them in the freezer. After a couple of hours, I then pop them out of...

I'd wait. I've never tried to HP goat's milk- it turns brown when it gets hot. As a matter of face, I freeze my goat's milk, and mix the lye into the frozen milk and do my best to keep the lye/milk under 90 degrees so it doesn't burn or turn dark. Alternatively, the water can be reduced...

One of my favorite "recipes" for body butter is simply whipped shea butter. I mean, just plain shea butter, whipped for about 20 minutes. It's awesome- even on my face. I don't heat the shea butter at all (as it can turn grainy), just use a mixer and let it go. Another body butter I like...

Are you talking about in the name, or on the label? On the label, "coconut oil, fresh goat's milk, goat's milk powder, fragrance oil" etc is fine for ingredients. But for the name, I don't think you can have 150% goat's milk! :mrgreen:

I was just thinking, It's not a mechanics bar, just a regular bath soap, but I did an oatmeal stout/orange EO soap and I love the aroma. It's not "perfumy" at all, but it's pretty nice with the brownish color and the orange EO actually stuck around in the smell, even after long curing. The...

I understand the reply, and I agree with it. I'm a moderator of a much larger forum dedicated to a different hobby (over 125,000 members) and we don't allow "do a search" for a reply. The forum isn't called soapmakingsearch.com, and the point of a forum is to discuss benefits and ideas...

Or, just use something like that and use palm oil for the lard/tallow. Superfat at 8% or so if you want it to be conditioning (no such thing as a "moisturizing" soap but conditioning is good!). I like castor oil for bubbly lather (the kind in the Drugstore), so you could try adding some if...

I don't use lard, simply because the purchased "lard" available to me isn't all-natural 100% lard. I do use grass-fed beef tallow, that I render myself. I also started using deer tallow this fall. I don't use Crisco at all. I tend to use olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, castor oil (normally...

Instead of adding the milk to the oils (I think that's what you said you did), freeze the milk, and then use it in place of your water. Mix the lye into the frozen milk (it'll thaw FAST!) and stir well, then proceed. Conversely, you can reduce the amount of water in your recipe and then stir...

4 ounces castor oil 2 ounces jojoba oil 4 ounces olive oil (pomace quality) 3 ounces palm oil 1 ounce cocoa butter 6 ounces of coconut oil 7.6 ounces water 2.617 ounces lye (8% superfat) I used lavender, cedarwood, and rosemany essential oils. (not much, you can barely smell...

If it's still zapping after 4 weeks (!), then it's obviously way too lye heavy. As to why it didn't trace, it's from the K0h, which is used for making liquid soap. You've definitely got too much lye in there, so you're a long way from going commercial. I would NOT use something on my face...