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Thank you Marsi and AliOop, I'll try that.

I bought some sheep tallow from an Alpine farmstead where I always buy it. The lady rendered it and then froze it. When I thawed it there was some liquid in the lower part of the glass jar and some dirt on the bottom. I cleaned the stuff twice in salted water. There was a rather strong...

Finished the two remaining portions of home rendered beef tallow. I plan to make double lye 100 % beef tallow CP soap for sensitive skin, no colour no fragrance.

Only today did I finish washing the rendered tallow - ah, at last! When I un-potted the first one there were drops of water at the bottom which I meticulously wiped with a paper towel as well as all the remaining surfaces. Hope it's now really dry but will be kept under refrigeration anyway. I...

I've been rendering beef tallow since the day before yesterday. After all the fat melts I let the melted fat floating on top of salted water in several pots to cool down on the balcony. I managed to let frozen large pieces of fat thaw just right so that cutting went fine. I decided to not travel...

I asked people how they like my gifted soap. Same story as elsewhere: some liked it and some didn't use it, either because it was "too pretty to use," or they prefered liquid soap. I try to persuade them my soap bars are not intended as a decoration of their home nor a scent for their wardrobe...

I see no ground for major issues with 100 % tallow. It gives a very hard piece of soap that has good lather but not much bubble. To soften it a bit and to increase bubbles I use dual lye recipe. I use Soapmaking Recipe Software & Lye Calculator where I choose Hybrid Soap - using both KOH and...

I made 100 % beef tallow dual lye no fragrance no colour cold process soap for a young woman below thirty with very sensitive skin which erupted due to a wide variety of causes. She likes the soap very much claiming her skin feels good after washing with my soap.

I made this soap in March this year using the recipe attached. I used beef tallow including the hardened fat from the top surface of beef soup, HO olive oil that has been used for frying doughnuts, castor oil, coconut oil, vinegar, sugar, fragrances Red orange, Ocean and Lemon grass. All fats...

More pale yellow spots

No spots on this side of the bar

There are a few pale yellow spots on this side of the bar

Made a sheep tallow - lard soap in my new individual moulds, separating a portion of emulsified batter into which I mixed additional coconut oil, NaOH, water and spent coffee grounds. Yesterday I placed the unmoulded and cleaned bars into my "curing room".

Very interesting! Thank you for your detailed explanation.

I was surprised in a way by my sister's decisions regarding things Mum left. One of my daughters said she would use Mum's washing machine and my sister agreed. Then my daughter changed her mind and when my sister heard it she literally said: "If I knew it would go to her (that is I) I would not...

February 5 for me :)