Do peoples really BUY lard soap nowadays??? Hate to switch back to palm

[Kari Howie]

I don't know about lard, but here in California, where people are grossed out by using animal fat, tallow soap is having a moment. I've been selling a lot of tallow soap and tallow body butter. That has totally surprised me.

Do they know where tallow comes from?

 

[bookworm42]

Tallow has been making a bit of a comeback recently. Tik toc and Instagram have been talking up how beneficial it is for the skin.

 

[Christa10]

Do they know where tallow comes from?

I think a lot of people don't know, but I make sure to tell them when they express an interest.

 

[MGM]

I don't know about lard, but here in California, where people are grossed out by using animal fat, tallow soap is having a moment. I've been selling a lot of tallow soap and tallow body butter. That has totally surprised me.

To me there's such a difference between "a fat as an ingredient in a soap when the final product is a hard, lathering bar with pretty swirls" and "an emollient you rub on the skin." I would think that 99 people out of 100 wouldn't balk at a bar of soap but would at a body butter. That being said, the first time I touched tallow (only about a year ago), I found it so *interesting*. It just wasn't like any other grease I'd encountered. I haven't full-on used it as a body butter, but I definitely rub my hands on dry body parts if there's excess on my fingers

 

[Christa10]

To me there's such a difference between "a fat as an ingredient in a soap when the final product is a hard, lathering bar with pretty swirls" and "an emollient you rub on the skin." I would think that 99 people out of 100 wouldn't balk at a bar of soap but would at a body butter. That being said, the first time I touched tallow (only about a year ago), I found it so *interesting*. It just wasn't like any other grease I'd encountered. I haven't full-on used it as a body butter, but I definitely rub my hands on dry body parts if there's excess on my fingers

I know what you mean. I've been on this forum now for several years and people from all over the world rave about tallow and lard, even in products like a body butter. I always thought that here in California there would be no market for it, so I never tried it, but I was always curious because so many people raved about it. Then, this year, I got a request for both. I sell much more of the body butter, surprisingly, than I do the soap.