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I like your tallow color. Nice job. what ratio of tallow do you get with your beef fat? from 5lbs of fat, I find myself trimming 1.15 lb of meat - and getting less than 32oz of tallow. is that normal?

I use my lye concentration at 45% -- meaning that I'm soaping at 45:65 (lye:water) above the minimum 50:50 (lye water). My soap sets fast! The more water you use, I'm told, the more curing that needs to happen. What you can do here is remove the silcon (inside mold) from the wooden (outside)...

Cleansing bar update: My murumuru butter never arrived (dang that make your own buzz) so I reformulated my "kitchen hand soap with babassu, palm kernel and coconut. Yes, I'm using 3 oils high in lauric & myristic fats in the same way some soapers use cocoa butter and shea butters in their same...

Hey @Faithhhh_ I've heard that new soap can sometimes cause underlying dirt to surface - causing pimples - when first used... so this is actually a good thing. But if you've been using it for a week, then, that's a different issue. So -- how long have you been using it?

hey @earlene thanks for your great posts about your blacksmith soap using borax and pumace. the test subject for the manly BO soap is myself. as is this kitchen soap I'm trying to develop to take off all oils, greases and smells. I live in the south - so I'm always around humidity and when...

Thanks guys. Read through blacksmith, mechanics & gardener's soap threads... great discussions but unfortuneately haven't seen the <22 cleansing rating addressed. It seems that most soapers prefer to keep their cleansing rating low to avoid dry skin. But a 100% CO salt bar would probably have a...

Hi all -- a total newbie here - but have done a lot of extensive research.. so, I'm dangerous because I think I know what I'm doing! I'm trying to create a soap that's "stronger" than what's out there. Stronger, as in, I'm trying to get find a way to get manly BO and deep-seated oils off...