It worked!

I made some soap Out of qasil powder

Soap #8 and #9

Tried making another dish soap with 100% coconut oil (500g of oil and 88g of lye to 160g water)

So, I messed this one up, I mixed the oils and lye while they were too hot. They volcanoed and turned translucent once it finally calmed down. Nothing spilled, the container was tall enough so luckily nothing got on me or got anywhere.

It cooled really quickly so i had to scrape it out of the container and i stuffed it into the mold and added some water to melt everything together - it worked out - somehow.

Note: Do not do this, it heats up like crazy and as the name for it implies, it volcanoes and expands. Not to mention it's got lye.

Soap #9

Tried to make soap for my friend again, but I'm not sure what went wrong this time.

Scaled up the recipe properly this time.

I took my time to add colors to everything and to scoop it into the mold. I stick blended too much again and I had to scoop it rather than pour it in.

For some reason it came out really brittle, and I'm not exactly sure why. The pH (after a couple weeks of laying around and lack of motivation, was slightly basic and zap test didn't really do much, so I assume the lye amount I measured was correct. (I measured in two batches cause I was using some paper shot glasses to measure, so I thought I might've messed it up somehow) Maybe it was cause i blended it for too long.

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He's just a little guy. A little soapy lego guy. He smells like apples. This distinguish gentleman also is the god of cleanliness, so bow before his power.

Books books books!! All found at thrifts in the Boise, ID area over the last several weeks. Its worth noting that you can get the Idaho Drivers manual pamphlet thing at the DMV for free last I checked. The Hamster Revolution is included because I thought it would be a MUCH better book from just seeing the title.

Yes, that IS the Communist Manifesto in French, I was going to buy it but I forgot :(

I MADE MY FIRST TIME SOAP

Rendering beef fat into tallow

Ten years ago, I came across a comment on a soap making forum where a woman explained how she gets her tallow pure enough to make into her soaps and it has worked really really well when I've made large batches of tallow. Since the internet is an ever-shifting labyrinth of lost advice, I thought I would help preserve her advice here as well.

By lionprincess00 from soapmakingforum.com:

"I take it and cut off all meat bits I can. Then I cut it into small inch sized pieces or so. Someone here mentioned baking soda to help the render smell, and another mentioned salt for helping get impurities out.

I put it into a pot of water that's filled halfway up the fat. I pour a good half cup or so of salt into it. I mix oh about 3 tablespoons of baking soda into water and pour it on as well. It creates a reaction and releases carbon dioxide, so beware as it heats of spilling over. I did an experiment not using baking soda in the render, and by the third it still smelled extremely meaty. Whatever the reason, it helps a ton reduce the overall finished product's odor. BEWARE OF EVAPORATION, and fill with fresh water as needed.

I heat it on medium low for a good half hour, and then lower the temperature to full low. I simmer for, oh, 4 hours or more, until the fat looks like a gelatinous gooey sinus infection lol. I strain it through a sieve into a glass Pyrex baking dish, used cheesecloth in the sieve once but can't find it anywhere after I ran out, so sieve it is.

I refrigerate it for at least 4 hours or so. It needs to cool completely through. Overnight is best.

Look at the liquid now. Below the fat in the dish after its cooled, the water is a deep muddy brown and STINKS like what I would think a dead body smells like. I almost gag at this point when I go and dump it in the field for the coyotes to sniff out haha. Once I didn't do this, and I'm assuming I used cleaner pieces of fat and cut most trimming off compared to other times, so you may or may not get this.

It looks like it's pretty clean fat now, but there's more cleaning that can occur, and I want it very very clean to prevent smell, dos development, and just the yuck factor of bits being left behind. That water was so nasty, and if it was that bad there's more cleaning throughout the fat that needs to happen.

Scrape any funk off the base of the fat disc and discard.

Pop out the solid fat disc and place in the pot. Fill with water to cover an inch below the fat, or so. This isn't an exact science, so close is fine.. Add about a quarter cup of salt and another few tbs of baking soda. Heat on low, and melt it. I keep it here for a couple hours or so. I strain it out into the cleaned out Pyrex. Cool for at least 4 hours. It just needs adequate time to harden completely through. If you pop it out too quickly, the bottom of the disc will still be water logged. The water beneath the fat disc this second render is a murky slightly tinted white. Very murky. Scrape the base of yucks again.

I do it again. This time I use about between 1/8 and 1/4 cup of salt. Honestly I dump and eyeball it, but for instructions sake, start with these and make it your own. The water after cooling is a cloudy white, but getting cleaner looking. Scrape discolored base. I do it the fourth time. The water is almost clear after this render and cooling. This is how I know most of the impurities are gone. I DON'T use salt this final render nor baking soda. The salt may be what clouds the left over water in the above rendering, but I know it still needs the extra rendering based on the smell too. The smell is nonexistent practically by the fourth render and cooling. The water left beneath the disc doesn't smell either by the fourth time. Is four necessary, probably not. I just want a clean clean product if I'm going to do it myself and not purchase it. Now is it necessary on bigger batches, yes and so is a fifth. If you're doing a lot at once, it may need 5 renders. If you split your 5 lbs into 2.5 renders each, 4 is good. If you do all at once, use a big enough pot for the bubbles of salt and baking soda reacting, and plan on 5 renders, and potentially 6 depending on how little the odor remains.

So, my final render is clear water and smell free even after a remelt of my tallow I rendered. So I do this method."

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