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First off, I was being facetious/sarcastic in that I REALLY wanted to put the term Sheep Fat in the label of my sheep fat shave soap because it is unique and a major selling point. If I couldn't put it in the label, I would make the ingredient list HUGE just to highlight the sheep fat. So, it's...

Thank you so much for your help Ma'am. We specifically made these soaps with the idea to stay clear of the cosmetic rules. But this being a new endeavor for me, and totally out of my element I didn't want the soap police to come knocking because I just got sloppy on my labeling. So for labels...

Background. I render the fat of animals I have raised and USDA butchered. Namely Beef, pork, and lamb. I have built up a good supply of different types of tallow and have had the soap properly made into 4 categories. 3 of which will be sold publicly through a small co-op market. My soap is...

Not dissolved in the water prior to adding the lye?

It had been suggested to me that I use a teaspoon of honey or sugar in my water, pre-lye, to help with lather-ability after the batch has cured. I am doing a hybrid HP method in a crockpot (on low) and when batch hits trace, I transfer to the molds. I have the honey. How much per 1lb of lard...

Sorry. As a noob I forget specifics as they do matter. I am making both lard and beef tallow soap. (separate batches) Not combining the 2. I am making hard bar soap using NaOH lye. So if I get this right; lard + lye + water = sodium lardate, water, glycerine, and unsaponified lard...

Right now I am making HP scent free lard lye, beef tallow hand/body soap. I have some EO and FO I can add when I become more proficient. But for now, on my basic scent free soaps, if I were to inform customers on their ingredients, would "potassium tallowate and water" be a correct description...

Just as an update, I turned the crockpot back on low a few days later. Once warmed it had a hard brick of hard soapy lye floating in a greasy moat. I started crushing and breaking it up to about where it was a few days prior. Then I hit it with the stick blender. It went from slop, to trace, to...

Well I found a decent stick blender. So maybe Monday I will give it another shot. Keep in mind this is a 100% lard soap. Should I use the lye calculator from naturesoap dot com, MMS, or the calculator at the top of this forum?

Thank you much. I'll ditch the wood stick. I will look for a 1 piece silicone spatula. I'll see if I can scrounge up a stick blender too. I will heat up the lard on "warm" and see what the temp is on that one. "low" was about 110. That might be the ticket. The second batch that never got to...

First off, I'm a noob, so be gentle. I'm already ticked and frustrated. So I spent months researching the hot process method of making body soap and was sure I had my recipe down. I rendered the back fat into some beautiful snow white lard. My goal was to make good utilitarian unscented...