Share your unintentional meat soap photos

[Martha]

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts recently about soaps that have turned out looking like meat. I thought it might be fun to share them in a meat thread. @Dawni You made a ham soap recently.

This one was from the first (and only) time I rendered tallow. The whole house smelled like meat, the color of the soap looked like meat, and the swirls even ended up looking like cows. See the bottom row.

 

[Dawni]

Haha yes, that was ham. I once made wagyu/corned beef/steak soap before too LOL

I see the cows! They even got black hooves lol how cool is that. The soap doesn't smell like meat though, right? Haha

 

[Mobjack Bay]

I have no doubts that your soap would be a hot seller at a bullfight.

My first version of meat soap was not so dramatic. A more recent batch has already been shredded for confetti.

 

[Ladka]

Here's my transformation of my first try at lollipop soap.

The round one is a perfect example of what is called soft chicken salami here

 

[ResolvableOwl]

I suspect that @Tara_H is too shy to show off her early HP butchery here, so I'll take the liberty to do so:
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/thoughts-on-chocolate-soap.83475/#post-882840https://www.soapmakingforum.com/thr...ve-you-done-today.42556/page-1046#post-883424
ETA: My own personal strategy lazy excuse to avoid soap looking like meat is to just not use colourants from the red/pink corner of the colour palette.

 

[Martha]

Here's my transformation of my first try at lollipop soap.

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The round one is a perfect example of what is called soft chicken salami here

Amazing! Those are the meatiest meat soaps! Thanks for sharing.

I suspect that @Tara_H is too shy to show off her early HP butchery here, so I'll allow to do so:
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/thoughts-on-chocolate-soap.83475/#post-882840https://www.soapmakingforum.com/thr...ve-you-done-today.42556/page-1046#post-883424
ETA: My own personal strategy lazy excuse to avoid soap looking like meat is to just not use colourants from the red/pink corner of the colour palette.

Yeah, I am a bit careful now. Mine had glycerin rivers, which looked like fat marbling in meat.

I have no doubts that your soap would be a hot seller at a bullfight.

My first version of meat soap was not so dramatic. A more recent batch has already been shredded for confetti.

I don’t know....it’s pretty good! I was actually going to approach a butcher to make soap in exchange for the fat to render, but I *really* didn’t like the smell of rendering it. @Dawni I used peppermint EO, but still think I can smell the tallow.

 

[gww]

Marta
I keep reading but do not know first hand that oak moss works wonders for covering tallow/lard smells.
Cheers
gww

 

[Dawni]

@Martha hopefully the tallow smell mellows down over time...

My own personal strategy lazy excuse to avoid soap looking like meat is to just not use colourants from the red/pink corner of the colour palette.

Or use them but don't use the white colorants with it LOL

My meat soaps came about when I added zince oxide to part the batter and attempted to swirl - in HP I think that way has more chances of getting meat soap, given the gloppiness lol

But then again thin whispy white parts in a red/pink CP soap might very much look like beef too lol. Depends how you swirl I guess.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

Oakmoss is a serious skin sensitizer. Please read the warnings on Aromaweb.com before using.

 

[LynetteO]

I don’t have the recipe nearby but it was not balanced.
Was still a huge hit @ Father’s Day.

 

[Quilter99755]

I have no photos, but you could witness the coral/red because it ran down the sides of the shower every time you used it. It never stained my cloths or the shower, but it was a disgusting meat juice picture every time I used it. I finally just threw it all away...before I thought about using it as confetti...but am glad it was a small batch AND that I didn't think to use it in confetti! LOL

 

[Mobjack Bay]

I don’t have the recipe nearby but it was not balanced.
View attachment 63351Was still a huge hit @ Father’s Day.

I think you win with this one. I would buy those at the grocery store

 

[LynetteO]

I think you win with this one. I would buy those at the grocery store

Yes, that marbling would make for some good wouldn’t it. I assumed this batch was a flop but I was wrong. So far it’s my only loaf that I had to purposely hide the last bar for posterity before they had all been claimed! It didn’t hurt that the fragrance was sandalwood & vanilla.

 

[debbism]

Meat soap? Meat soap! Why yes....I made a fantastic peppered salami meat soap this year!

This is a shot of the end cuts which show its meatiness nicely. The soap was a tad oily on cutting but it soaked in during cure. People still loved it as i cut it into bulky bricks and sold it as man-soap. Scent is Rosewood lime

And this is the cut bars - it's hard to see the oily sheen of this meat-tastic soap but I had a good laugh over this batch for weeks!

 

[CreativeWeirdo]

We call them (and by we, I mean me and I've been trying really hard to get it to catch on here, to no avail) Kevins!

 

[Vicki C]

Posted previously but here’s my mortadella soap.

 

[Vicki C]

I don’t have the recipe nearby but it was not balanced.
View attachment 63351Was still a huge hit @ Father’s Day.

Is this truly soap? ETA I can’t tell if it is meat and you are teasing - if soap, I am impressed!

 

[Martha]

I don’t have the recipe nearby but it was not balanced.
View attachment 63351Was still a huge hit @ Father’s Day.

OMG! Those are nuts. I can’t even see them as soap. Amazing.

 

[Martha]

Meat soap? Meat soap! Why yes....I made a fantastic peppered salami meat soap this year!View attachment 63368

This is a shot of the end cuts which show its meatiness nicely. The soap was a tad oily on cutting but it soaked in during cure. People still loved it as i cut it into bulky bricks and sold it as man-soap. Scent is Rosewood lime

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And this is the cut bars - it's hard to see the oily sheen of this meat-tastic soap but I had a good laugh over this batch for weeks!

The pepper crust is perfection!

 

[Martha]

Posted previously but here’s my mortadella soap.
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I really wish it had been made in a round mold! I love it!