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I rendered my two kilos of leaf lard for the second time and poured it into portions of a bit over 400 grams. It had not yet hardened when I took the picture and looks yellowish but now it is so lovely white!

Leaf lard rendered twice and poured into containers

@szaza, what happened to your wood ash lye soap in these two years? Did you cut it into bars or did you pour it into smallish containers and use it as creamy soap? P.S. My ashes are still waiting in the cellar :rolleyes:

I thought that "I'm now on my hands and knees in my back yard," would be followed by "barking wildly ha-ha!

You might wish to make dual lye soap as KOH is known to make softer soap.

Did not manage to control my impatience and unmoulded one of the three sunflower moulds to obtain this: [/GALLERY]']

Beef tallow and HO sunflower oil infused with annatto powder. Was too impatient, wanted to see how it looks like - now I can see it was unmoulded too early. There are two more sunflower moulds, they will wait until tonight.

Have not done it yet, I'm still doing it: a tallow soap with HO sunflower oil in which annatto powder had been soaking. I plan to pour into single moulds featuring honeycomb and bees. For brown bees I will use cacao powder, moistened with water and then add to some batter. If any brown batter is...

Here's another tallow soap lover! I did not like the rock hard pure tallow soap so tried a dual lye recipe cause KOH makes softer soap. I also wanted a bit more lather and bubbles so I added sugar and castor oil. I am now very happy with my soap. The bars are fairly hard but not rock hard...

I never used distilled or any other bottled water in soap making nor do I ever buy any. We have great-tasting tap water which I love to drink. I'd write "If it's good for me it must be good enough for my soap as well." Although I acknowledge this may not be scientifically based it works fine for me.

What difference: what accelerates tracing - more castor or less castor? I use lard quite a lot and would love to find a way to accelerate trace.

DM or PM? Anywhere. One of my sons-in-law has celiac disease..

Where can I learn what cornbread with schmaltz is?

Are the tote bags made of fabric or paper? And what are the dimensions? I'm just considering using them too and would be grateful for any info.

I mixed one level teaspoonful of annatto powder in 250 g of olive oil. I remember having recently read about oil infusing with natural colourants but can't find the thread for the life of me :rolleyes:

What is your superfat in the recipe? Also, is 20 % coconut oil not drying for your skin? I find even 10 % drying for mine.

#The Gecko - he didn't like your "new" recipe :D:D:D

Done

Are the brown spots in the light part of bars from turmeric?

When I made a pause in wearing my earrings and wanted to have my ears pierced again - "Let's just say that was more than 50 years ago" here too - my goldsmith explained that my ear holes are closed up with old and dried sebum which he promptly removed and I could wear earrings again.