Great Grandma's "Turpentine" Soap.....stain stick
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digit said:I also find this interesting. Thank you for the reformulation and sharing it!!
Have you found this to be color safe and effective in cold water?
Digit
I've used it on my dark colored clothes and haven't noticed any fading or spotting.
I've used it on stuff I put through a cold water wash and it worked fine, but I have temperature controlled cold on my machine....basically it has a sensor to keep the water temp at 70 degrees F or above. I haven't tried it with tap cold.
Mike, my stain sticks are almost the same recipe, but with 1/2 cup Borax added to the recipe. I'm a great believer in "the easier the better" so I don't wait till trace to add anything -- I just throw the lard, borax, lye water and turpenoid all together and SB to medium trace. And I discount the water heavily -- just over 3-1/2 oz of H2O to the 1 lb of oils.
AshleyR
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I'm new here and am curious about these "stain sticks"....
Since there is turpentine in this one... first thing that came to mind is that this could be a good soap for a painter or a man who works in the garage a lot and gets dirty with grease, oil, etc. Wouldn't this be a good soap to clean their hands with?
My Dad used to have this special soap he'd use after working out in the garage and getting all greasy.
Would this work?
Since there is turpentine in this one... first thing that came to mind is that this could be a good soap for a painter or a man who works in the garage a lot and gets dirty with grease, oil, etc. Wouldn't this be a good soap to clean their hands with?
My Dad used to have this special soap he'd use after working out in the garage and getting all greasy.
Would this work?
Vintageliving
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I have a new batch of these, freshly curing. I used real turpentine.
Will report how they do on various stains.
Ashley, I will be giving a couple of these bars to someone whose hands get quite dirty. It'll take a while to get a report from him, but I'll post when I do.
Will also try a batch of these with the added borax.
Thank you for the recipe!
Will report how they do on various stains.
Ashley, I will be giving a couple of these bars to someone whose hands get quite dirty. It'll take a while to get a report from him, but I'll post when I do.
Will also try a batch of these with the added borax.
Thank you for the recipe!
rupertspal42
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This one is definetly on my to-do list
Vintageliving
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Victoria, I'm delighted with the turpentine bars. They are good stain removers and last a long time.
I'm also interested in hearing if it would be good for a mechanic's soap.
Thanks for posting this recipe.
Thanks for posting this recipe.
ilovedoxies
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Can't wait to try this one
DragonQueenHHP
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we made basically the same recipe with lard and turpentine using HP I have to say it ROCKS!
DragonQueenHHP
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SoSoapy said:
I don't think it would cause any kind of problems
Just make sure you run it through a lye calculator, I believe the SAP's may be different.
DragonQueenHHP
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I ran it thou the lye is fine
as for the turpentine it is not added until trace and you do not need to run it thou
as for the turpentine it is not added until trace and you do not need to run it thou
