Thank you so much for your kind comment! Have you ever seen how the women in Northen Ghana make their shea butter? Too wonderful! I love to know how things are made or learn how to make it myself. I've never heard the word "schmaltz" before. Love it!

Thank you for your kind feedback!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Tallow makes such excellent soap.

Thank you 🤍

When people try it, a lot of them are so surprised that they change their minds! These soaps last longer than plant oil based soaps. And there is so much controversy around palm oil anyway... I am glad you tried it!

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You need to put the amount of oils and fats into a lye calculator with batch size you are making to get the amount of water and lye you need

Thank you for your kind words! My husband made it for me.

You are very kind. Thank you. I love sheep tallow. But I clean it three times... it does have a bit of an awkward smell. It is more cleansing than beef. Fantastic for laundry.

I add some other oils to create a "softer" soap. You can play around with other oils. Olive oil and sunflower oil will create a softer soap. But then your soap will not last that long either😁

I think it is better if you don't superfat for laundry soap. My pleasure🤗

Hi Alma! I have a 3-tier wire trolley which I bought very cheaply. I just put them on the trolley for a few months. It allows air flow from the bottom and the top. I usually just wrap them in brown paper when I want to store them or give them away. I hope you know what I'm talking about?

@@sunbirdmom Thanks for the reply Helen. Great advice ☺️

Hi! Thanks for reaching out. This soap IS very hard and lasts longer than a lot of other soap. If your caustic soda was not clumped up or old, and your measurements were correct when you made it, can it be that it is just different than what you are used to? Mine always lather. But the mineral composition of your water can also impact it. You can consider replacing 10% of the tallow with coconut oil for better lather. Just use a lye calculator to determine your NaOH amount needed. Was this helpful?

@@sunbirdmom thanks will try it

Hi! There is a link to the recipe in the description. You can actually print it out if you like! Here are the ingredients nontheless: 1 kg tallow 276 g water 138g NaOH I hope this is helpful? I hope you'll try it out!

@@sunbirdmom am definitely going to try it today and send pics. I want to try using Coconut oil instead of Tallow and see how it comes out.

For coconut oil you are going to need a different amount of water and lye! Every oil has a unique structure. Try using a lye calculator (soapee works great!) and punch in the amount of coconut oil that you want to use. Will it be for clothes/ dish washing?100% Coconut oil soap for personal hygiene is too cleansing unless you superfat it to about 20%. But it will work great for clothes and dishes.

@@sunbirdmom yes i did access it using your link and it is super efficient on calculations. i will take your advice and do 80:20 Coconut:tallow

Remember, the cleaner the tallow becomes, the less you smell it when the soap is finished. Mine is usually odourless. Does that answer your question? You can definitely sell this soap! I am not sure what you mean by "soap base". Maybe explain...?

@@sunbirdmom Thank you,, what I need is there is excess amount of tallow around my home as wastage, so I want to treat or render either to directly prepare or to store it from it/ to prepare soap nodule from it

@@hailleasmamaw6899 you can use it. I put the clean tallow in the freezer and take it out when I want to make soap. The technique I use in the video leaves it very clean and odourless.

Hi. The fat should really just be completely melted. I think I let it cook for about fifteen minutes. I presume that you are talking about cleaning the fat?

@@sunbirdmom yes - thank you

Do you have easy access to mutton? Sheep fat makes fantastic soap too!

@@sunbirdmom , it's a problem to find any kind of animal fat. I make soap from coconut oil and olive oil. But I have very dry skin. I think, that only soap from animal fat will be good for me. And I also want to make tallow balm. Hope to find tallow))).

@yuliaandronova4620 I'm so sorry... You don't use too much coconut oil, do you? Coconut oil makes beautiful bubbles, but it can strip the oils from your skin easily. I never add more than 5% coconut oil when I make soap for my own use. My skin becomes dry quickly too. Have you considered trying out other plant oil combinations in stead? Definitely superfat your soap, don't go over 5% with coconut oil and if you can get hold of palm oil/palm kernel oil, you can add that too for hardness.

@@sunbirdmom , thank you! I usually use about 20 percents of coconut oil. And 80 of olive ( or canola oil) I will try to put less coconut oil.

It's definitely the coconut oil!! Look for other hard plant oils like cocao butter or palm to replace the 15%. Happy new year to you🤗

Yes it is🙈😅