I make almost entirely lard soaps. Did the math yesterday and found if i only use lye, lard, any free liquid, and even a very expensive FO, my full loaf (8 sell-able bars) costs around $11. So that's like $1.37 cost per bar
I like using coconut oil in baking, I made some peanut butter cookies with a little bit of coconut oil in them, and they were pretty good.. You can also cook with it, and make dressings for salad and stuff. Just a few ideas.
I make 100% coconut oil soap. You have to use a high % superfat. I do 20% but some do up to 25%. It makes a lovely lather, very moisturizing and its a wonderful white bar. Very inexpensive too!!
CPOP for the gel (to accelerate) or put immediately in the freezer to cool. I had gelling in my beautiful white soap and I nearly cried about it lol but it turned out to be my best working recipe yet so I think I'm trying cpop next time
Just commenting to mourn the accidental gel with you, I did the same to a batch of unscented stripped down soap but with olive oil and a little rosemary oleoresin and it turned a vomit green hue and never gelled the rest of the way to the edges during cure. RIP Snow White.
How tragic! Did the antioxidant cause it to accelerate and gel? Even though it didn’t end up white, I still do like the colour of olive oil soaps… even if they’re a bit more of a muddy green!
You read my mind. I was searching for this topic this morning and boom! Here you are!!! I want the whitest bar I can get for my Christmas theme soaps this year.
Glad I could help! If you use this formula, remember to check if the soap’s ready to cut a few hours after pouring (it’ll be impossible if you wait longer than 12 hours). I also haven’t tested this formula as a frosting yet so I have no idea how it’d behave, so keep that in mind! 😃 The white colour this formula yields is great on its own, but if you add a bit of titanium dioxide, it’ll help prevent translucency if your soap happens to gel. The good thing is, you don’t even need to use a lot!
Since you add more coconut, it would be good if you increased your super fat, although mixed with a large proportion of lard you may not need it because that will prevent it from leaking as much, but if you did it with other types of butter you would need it, lard is very Good, it makes wonderful soaps but I would add castor and citric acid, well many more things but as a base it would be good, the lard keeps the dough more liquid and you have a lot of time to make some design
I was surprised at how pleasant lard is in soap. I thought about increasing my superfat to make the bars even more gentle, but I’ve heard that lard could develop DOS if the superfat is too high! Castor is a great idea, and it’s something I always use in my base recipe. Such great bubbles!
BHA and BHT are antioxidants that help delay rancidification and are commonly found in bath and body products, while citric acid creates sodium citrate in soap which is a chelator that binds with heavy metals and also may help delay rancification. I’ve purposefully added citric acid to soap without adjusting my lye, and all it does is increase my superfat by a percent or two! Overall, I’d prefer the lard to have preservatives so that I don’t have to deal with DOS. Also, if you buy lard in larger quantities or source it from a proper soap supply shop, it’s much cheaper 😉
I haven’t found it to have a scent! Tenderflake is already pretty refined, but I imagine if you were rendering your own lard it might carry a bit of a smell.
If it's lard or tallow rendered for finer baked goods not so much but if it's rendered for frying then it'll have a slightly unpleasant odor to it, fragrance oils do not cover it up. Tallow has more of a raw steak scent and lard more of an odd maybe mild body odor scent. it's very subtle but there.
I make almost entirely lard soaps. Did the math yesterday and found if i only use lye, lard, any free liquid, and even a very expensive FO, my full loaf (8 sell-able bars) costs around $11. So that's like $1.37 cost per bar
@@foragedarts2037 Lard seems to be the holy grail fat of cheap soap! I love the way it behaves and feels, and nothing can beat that white!
Why did the skeleton hand make me jump? 😂 I loved your video! You have such a creative mind ☺️
Thank you! 😊 And I have to get everyone in the mood for Halloween! 😂
I like using coconut oil in baking, I made some peanut butter cookies with a little bit of coconut oil in them, and they were pretty good.. You can also cook with it, and make dressings for salad and stuff. Just a few ideas.
Thanks for the suggestions! I wonder if it has a flavour? One way I’ve been using it is in bath bombs… stay tuned lol
@@SoapUniverse It does add a coconut flavor to things, yes. Coconut bath bombs also sound lovely.
I make 100% coconut oil soap. You have to use a high % superfat. I do 20% but some do up to 25%. It makes a lovely lather, very moisturizing and its a wonderful white bar. Very inexpensive too!!
Coconut soaps are beautifully white! Rock hard and really bubbly, too. I find them pretty hard to work with once they come to trace, though!
CPOP for the gel (to accelerate) or put immediately in the freezer to cool. I had gelling in my beautiful white soap and I nearly cried about it lol but it turned out to be my best working recipe yet so I think I'm trying cpop next time
Haha normally I’ll CPOP to prevent a partial gel or if I want to cut the soap quickly! What fats do you include in your white soap?
Just commenting to mourn the accidental gel with you, I did the same to a batch of unscented stripped down soap but with olive oil and a little rosemary oleoresin and it turned a vomit green hue and never gelled the rest of the way to the edges during cure. RIP Snow White.
How tragic! Did the antioxidant cause it to accelerate and gel? Even though it didn’t end up white, I still do like the colour of olive oil soaps… even if they’re a bit more of a muddy green!
You read my mind. I was searching for this topic this morning and boom! Here you are!!! I want the whitest bar I can get for my Christmas theme soaps this year.
Glad I could help! If you use this formula, remember to check if the soap’s ready to cut a few hours after pouring (it’ll be impossible if you wait longer than 12 hours). I also haven’t tested this formula as a frosting yet so I have no idea how it’d behave, so keep that in mind! 😃
The white colour this formula yields is great on its own, but if you add a bit of titanium dioxide, it’ll help prevent translucency if your soap happens to gel. The good thing is, you don’t even need to use a lot!
@@SoapUniverse thank you for the advice. I will keep that in mind. Have a wonderful week!
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Since you add more coconut, it would be good if you increased your super fat, although mixed with a large proportion of lard you may not need it because that will prevent it from leaking as much, but if you did it with other types of butter you would need it, lard is very Good, it makes wonderful soaps but I would add castor and citric acid, well many more things but as a base it would be good, the lard keeps the dough more liquid and you have a lot of time to make some design
I was surprised at how pleasant lard is in soap. I thought about increasing my superfat to make the bars even more gentle, but I’ve heard that lard could develop DOS if the superfat is too high!
Castor is a great idea, and it’s something I always use in my base recipe. Such great bubbles!
To use td effectively in cold process soap, it need's to be be stick blended.
That lard had a bunch of preservatives on it. Citric acid for example, it might have eaten some of the lye. Also, it is SUPER EXPENSIVE.
BHA and BHT are antioxidants that help delay rancidification and are commonly found in bath and body products, while citric acid creates sodium citrate in soap which is a chelator that binds with heavy metals and also may help delay rancification. I’ve purposefully added citric acid to soap without adjusting my lye, and all it does is increase my superfat by a percent or two! Overall, I’d prefer the lard to have preservatives so that I don’t have to deal with DOS.
Also, if you buy lard in larger quantities or source it from a proper soap supply shop, it’s much cheaper 😉
Olive oil was put in the description recipe, not Lard.
Fixed it! These 5am mornings get to me 😂
Also updated to include ingredient quantities.
Do lard give the soap a weird sent?
Yeah, smells like your mom
:( We've reached a point as a society where "your mom" jokes are censored. Thanks RUclips
I haven’t found it to have a scent! Tenderflake is already pretty refined, but I imagine if you were rendering your own lard it might carry a bit of a smell.
I’ve done lard and tallow and neither had a smell due to going through saponification.
If it's lard or tallow rendered for finer baked goods not so much but if it's rendered for frying then it'll have a slightly unpleasant odor to it, fragrance oils do not cover it up. Tallow has more of a raw steak scent and lard more of an odd maybe mild body odor scent. it's very subtle but there.