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Lisa, you don't have to maintain the temp you have to reach it. When you first start heating the glycerin the methanol will start to evaporate at just over 148F which is the approximate boiling point of methanol. As more is evaporated the temp will keep climbing. I urge you not to do it in an...

The term 'biodiesel' is popular slang for methyl esters which can burn in any diesel engine without modification, its also a replacement for home heating oil. It is biodegradable and less toxic than table sugar. And smells soo much better than petroleum when it it burns :) PS- none of the...

Thanks :) We're starting to get it in some local stores also, very exciting! We made a decision going forward that we would do all our bar soaps with added shea butter and discontinue olive oil.

when you take the methanol out it gets solid enough to clog the pipe coming from our still. Not as hard as the NAOH reacted stuff though. You have to get the pot temp up to 260F

yes, we reuse it in the next batch also. Waste not want not.

Re: Biodiesel Glycerin Soap Examples Rick I think you need to qualify this and state that it is safe once you remove the excess methanol leftover from the biodiesel process. We distill our glycerin up to pot temps of 260F in order to ensure the methanol is removed and the glycerin is...

awww thanks!!! We're in the process of refining our soap line so we'll keep that under consideration! We just made a gardners soap with beeswax and pumice, and patchouli is next up.

We make liquid soap from the glycerin layer of the biodiesel process and it turns out wonderful. We use it for everything from general houshold cleaning to shampoo. I'm trying to experiment with tweaking the recipe and adding pumice or walnut shell for a mechanics soap.

You're welcome. I'll pass along the idea on peanuts to the brains of the operation my wife :) We talked about it before and her partner has kids that have allergies. The burden should always be on parents to make sure their kids are not exposed to anything that could harm them, and we need...

karismakingsoap- they are making biodiesel if you are getting glycerin from them. Folks who use straight veggie oil have no byproduct like this. First and foremost you need to recover the methanol from the crude glycerin first! It has 12% methanol in it. You can either boil it off (OUTSIDE...

Thanks for the shout out Tabitha :) My wife and her best friend and partner now run the soap company and we've changed the name to Wash Tyme. I only help with the heavy lifting part. They are experimenting with some old tyme recipes ie salt & beeswax. Our soaps are really getting better as we...