Deer Tallow?

[Cristy]

Just wondering if anyone has made soap with deer tallow before? By the end of deer hunting season I'll probably have access to quite a bit of deer fat and would like to try rendering some. If you've tried it what other oils did you use and did it have a weird odor to it? Thinking of making a soap with the tallow and using beer as the liquid...I'd call it "Beer & Deer" soap. :wink:

 

[judymoody]

I've rendered elk tallow. I did it three times to remove the smell and added fresh rosemary and mint as I was rendering. It makes a nice hard white bar. I ground up the fat with a meat grinder attachment to my mixer which made the process more efficient, I think. It makes a nice hard white bar. I could smell the animal smell a little bit after soaping but it faded after cure. I also don't eat red meat so maybe I'm extra sensitive. I did this for my husband when he got an elk last year.

There is a SAP value for deer tallow in soap calc.

Happy soaping!

 

[Soaplady22]

I made one with bear fat and used the lard SAP. Worked out fine. There is a smell when you're making the soap, but not afterwards. I didn't use any more scent than I normally do. I now have a small amount of deer tallow - as soon as we go cut and wrap!! I'll be canning it for future use.

 

[carebear]

I've purchased deer tallow from someone who rendered it from fat given to her by local hunters. It was essentially odorless, as far as I could recall.

I used it in place of palm oil, I think, in a general formula. It was many years ago.

 

[Kleine Teufel]

I've used the suet from deer before. Beautiful stuff to work with. That's only the fat from around the kidneys of the deer. The best I can describe it is that it's like little balls of pure white fat. That's the purest fat of an animal. As for other fats, it takes a lot more to render it into clean, useable fat than the suet.