Hello from New Jersey!

[lemonpoppyseed]

Hi, I'm Megan. I am a rabbit fanatic with a budding soap making hobby.

After watching endless video tutorials and reading recipes very closely, I took the plunge yesterday and made my first batch of goat's milk soap.

I hope to perfect a 'tried and true' recipe and use that to make soap for myself so that I never have to buy it again. Additionally, I'm excited to make lip balm, body butter, and other items. Due to being on a budget, I am most interested in simple recipes using affordable ingredients.

It's very nice to be here!

 

[Relle]

Welcome Megan, all rabbit lovers welcomed here. I have a bunny by the name of Pippi. Good luck with your soap making and keep any bunnies away when you make soap. My best advice is when you are curing it put it somewhere away from the moulting bunny (if you have one or many or any) .

 

[Miki]

Hi Megan, I spin wool as well as make soap and recently found out that I am allergic to rabbit hair after trying to spin some. Welcome to this fantastic group I love goat milk soap

 

[shunt2011]

Hi Megan and welcome!

 

[scard]

Hi, from someone who was born in NJ many moons ago. ( I still miss the hard rolls) Good luck with your soapmaking endeavor. It's habit-forming!

 

[Saponificarian]

Simple recipe for soap

45-50% Palm Shortening/Palm oil/Lard/Tallow
30-35% Olive oil/High Oleic Canola/High Oleic Sunflower
20% Coconut oil.

I believe you can get the Palm Shortening and oils at Walmart or Costco. Lye at hardware stores around you.

For how to know if an oil is high Oleic, read this
https://classicbells.com/soap/highOleic.html

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Welcome Megan, all rabbit lovers welcomed here. I have a bunny by the name of Pippi. Good luck with your soap making and keep any bunnies away when you make soap. My best advice is when you are curing it put it somewhere away from the moulting bunny (if you have one or many or any) .

View attachment 31868Hi, from someone who was born in NJ many moons ago. ( I still miss the hard rolls) Good luck with your soapmaking endeavor. It's habit-forming!

What are hard rolls? I must be missing out, because I've never heard of them. Then again, I only recently moved to NJ from the West Coast!

 

[lsg]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[scard]

Buttered hard rolls are or maybe were a breakfast staple when I was growing up there. They call them NY hard rolls but they were just as popular in northern N J. I'd have some shipped down here if it didn't cost $18!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/dining/buttered-roll-new-york.html
They are the best!

 

[IrishLass]

Welcome, Megan!


IrishLass

 

[blw]

Simple recipe for soap

45-50% Palm Shortening/Palm oil/Lard/Tallow
30-35% Olive oil/High Oleic Canola/High Oleic Sunflower
20% Coconut oil.

I believe you can get the Palm Shortening and oils at Walmart or Costco. Lye at hardware stores around you.

For how to know if an oil is high Oleic, read this
https://classicbells.com/soap/highOleic.html

perfect. now i may not have to order from washington and waiting 3 weeks for canola oil to arrive. is there a certain brand that you know is high oleic?

 

[Saponificarian]

Well... I don’t think I can help you with that as I don’t live in the US. Maybe the Soapers in the US can help?

 

[amd]

perfect. now i may not have to order from washington and waiting 3 weeks for canola oil to arrive. is there a certain brand that you know is high oleic?

soaperschoice.com carries HO Canola.