Hi,
I work in a restaurant, and we have an excess of good fat that has (before my time) just been thrown away. This is good hard, lamb, and beef fat, and I hate to see it wasted.
Ive rendered a bunch of tallow. A mixture of beef and lamb. Purified with water, strained though a coffee filter. It's nice, pure white, and hard.
I was considering making a decent soap out of it. I once found a charcoal soap that my skin loved, and would like to take a stab at that, and I figured since kitchen folk are pretty dirty a nice bar with some pumice in it would be nice for our hands. I ordered some good activated charcoal and pumice from amazon.
My thoughts on my recipes were to keep them simple and straight foreword:
Fat (havent weighed it yet), lye +water, charcoal, pumice
I was debating with fragrance, either to do without, or just try something simple.
What are your thoughts on the pumice/charcoal? Will I encounter any problems?
A side note: I haven't been browsing this forum too long, but it seems a lot of people who are making animal fat-based soaps are buying lard or bulk animal fats. I think if you're making your own soap, you probably care about whats going on/into your body. Support your local butcher/local farms and buy fat from the source. Butchers will always have fat on hand. Use fat from good, happy, healthy animals. Not commodity. That stuff you find in the 5 gal buckets is commodity crap, and I wouldnt want soap made from that.
I work in a restaurant, and we have an excess of good fat that has (before my time) just been thrown away. This is good hard, lamb, and beef fat, and I hate to see it wasted.
Ive rendered a bunch of tallow. A mixture of beef and lamb. Purified with water, strained though a coffee filter. It's nice, pure white, and hard.
I was considering making a decent soap out of it. I once found a charcoal soap that my skin loved, and would like to take a stab at that, and I figured since kitchen folk are pretty dirty a nice bar with some pumice in it would be nice for our hands. I ordered some good activated charcoal and pumice from amazon.
My thoughts on my recipes were to keep them simple and straight foreword:
Fat (havent weighed it yet), lye +water, charcoal, pumice
I was debating with fragrance, either to do without, or just try something simple.
What are your thoughts on the pumice/charcoal? Will I encounter any problems?
A side note: I haven't been browsing this forum too long, but it seems a lot of people who are making animal fat-based soaps are buying lard or bulk animal fats. I think if you're making your own soap, you probably care about whats going on/into your body. Support your local butcher/local farms and buy fat from the source. Butchers will always have fat on hand. Use fat from good, happy, healthy animals. Not commodity. That stuff you find in the 5 gal buckets is commodity crap, and I wouldnt want soap made from that.