Soap from filtered frying oil?

[soapbuddy]

Re: Used cooking oil soaps

I had the pleasure to be having lunch at my friend’s restaurant when a woman came in to purchase their spent frying oil. She was paying $.10 per gallon ok is not much but every penny counts in their business. After she received the spent cooking oil the woman handed my friend a couple bars of soap she makes. I don't want to mention the name to protect the soap maker but they were located somewhere in Florida selling for $3.00 a bar.
My friend purchases soap from me and said here try one of your competitor’s bars.
They were tightly shrunk wrapped in plastic looking like it had been poured in a mold and labeled natural handmade soap Hmmmmmmmmm that was a tip off right then. That night I decided to take a shower using this bar and what a surprise, try taking a shower with a bar that is scented with almond to mask the frying oil smell that comes out when you start to lather up the soap. Also the grease film wouldn’t was off I guess it was super-fatted with who knows what. I felt like I was washing with a bar of lard. I'm a believer that we all are trying to make a living but what a scam.
Also used cooking oils are well on their way to rancidity, that’s why there replaced besides you have no idea of what was fried or what type of oil you would be using in your soap making process as well as having no idea of the INS of your soap.
Chainapa
Oh Soaps

Sounds pretty awful. That's no competition. You have nothing to worry about.

 

[madpiano]

Actually, other than the smell, my soap from the cooking oil-left-overs are not bad at all. We fry a mix of bacon and burgers, so it's a pretty equal mix of Lard and Tallow and the soap is not weird, funny or greasy. It just smells.

If anyone knows how to gt rid of this smell, that would be great. I still wouldn't sell that soap, but it's a cheap way to make experiments at home. It certainly doesn't leave a grease film on the skin and it is no different from any other lard/tallow bar I made.

I am actually just about to make another batch and make it look like a fried burger....

 

[kittywings]

Have you tried the whole "slice a potato and fry those slices and they absorb the smells" thing?