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I spent the day today teaching 3 teenage boys how to freedive for abalone and scallops off the Mendocino coast. After cleaning the shellfish and a ling we speared, one of them asked if there is any fat in the fish to make soap! A year or two ago I showed the same trio how to process a wild pig...

Exactly my point. The vaccines are gone, the antibiotics are in such a minute amount they have no measurable effect and maybe the hormones are lingering. Still, Id like to see a solid study.

I would love to see some in depth studies on what is suspended in animal fat. I cant imagine an organization willing to pay for a study that actually measures how many micrograms of antibiotics, growth hormones and vaccines are in a kilogram of animal fat. Along with that, which of these...

Im going to put my next batch into sticks after reading this. Still, I love how the stuff has hardened up nicely, especially the lanolin and tallow ones. Time to strop. So after 5 weeks of shaving with this recipe along with a beef tallow addition and a lanolin addition in separate...

I completely agree. Im a noob to this site and have been using a straight for 5 years. The shave soaps I made a few years ago that called for clay were terrible. No cushion, no lasting lather, just slick due to expensive mud:wink:. Ive never purchased a decent shaving soap that had clay in...

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If the recipe is from the first shaving soap is a success thread, Ive made the same one. I had a drying shave the day after I made it but that could be from not using enough water or because it had not cured at all. That was about a week ago. I shaved with that soap yesterday and had a superb...

Such an educational post! Thank you! Lastingness(?) has always been elusive to me other than utilizing a long cure. I pulled out a tallow, coconut and olive oil bar from 3 motnhs ago and it was excellent. Ive let other recipes cure this long and maybe I just didnt appreciate the mildness and...

They are the only straights in my rotation now. On the weekends when I have more free time, a long, luxurious shave with one of these is my spa treatment. Definite edge play.

Ha! Kamisoris are my favorite!

Shaved today with the original recipe on this thread and a kamisori. Great advice about adding lots o water. Excellent shave. Bit of 444 after and that's it.

That marriage is doomed.

Vegan soap is a soap that a vegan would buy.

I make a hand bar with coffee grinds for when I get home from work, I am a male, and I use it daily. My gf does think its a bit scratchy but it does clean very well.

I really enjoy the myriad of preferences we all have. Ive always preferred harder soaps than croaps and creams. I like watching the hard bar mutate into a creamy, puffy lather on my brush. Due to that preference Im pretty pleased that these stearic/coco soaps will get hard. I thought I may...

No noticeable difference to me lathered up or not. My nose though is not all that sensitive.

The baby oil was only used to line the PVC mold to ease removal. I would have used plain mineral oil but I was out. All the oils were melted together in the crock pot. Lye solution was added and I switched back and forth between a stick blender and hand stirring. This crock pot tends...

I thought HPCP meant hot process crock pot. The baby oil ingredients say mineral oil and fragrance, which could be vanilla. Thanks all.

Hi all Yesterday I tried my firstish HP in a crock pot. I made some shaving soap this weekend with the crock pot and yesterdays batch was my first HP bar soap attempt. Recipe: Palm oil 35% Olive oil 30% Coconut oil 25% Castor 5% Pistachio oil 5% I used soapcalc for the lye...

Yeah, these are 200g batches, so I have 5 of them now. More than enough. My MdC lasts me almost a year and I use it 3-5 times a week. I dont expect these batches to be that long lasting..... Too impatient to let them cure. Now if I get these beard growing faster