I love the irregular soap sizes! Makes it look more homemade than the perfect cuts! Love it!

It is very important to note that anyone making soap never uses anything aluminum. Stainless steel, glass, enamelware, plastic, or wood are all suitable.

My wife and I have been making tallow based soap for almost 30 years. Some things we have learned along the way: 1. Running the fat through a meat grinder makes things go much quicker and increases your yield. 2. Instead of using all the fat from the cow, using only the suet vastly increases the yield. Suet is the hard, waxy fat from around the kidneys. Muscle fat is not quite as hard, and produces much more gristle from the rendering process. 3. We have never rendered more than once for soapmaking tallow, and have never had an issue with the finished soap having a beef or unpleasant smell, even with soap that we add no fragrance oil to. 4. We use a direct-heat method to render, without water or salt. It is more attention-intensive, but I routinely render 2 to 3 GALLONS of finished tallow in about 2 1/2 hours from start to finish. 5. We add a small percentage of coconut oil to the tallow, and it really helps increase the lather of the finished soap.

It really is nice to see people making things still. So many of us now days are relying on the phone to otder things out especially in the city.

I imagine the crock pot and immersion blender and spoons and such are easy to wash afterwards. No extra soap needed. Just use what's left on them. lol That is a neat process.

I, too, was having a hard time finding 100% lye until I found 8lb for $23 at Bulk Apothecary (USA Co.). Shipping is steep, but I was able to acquire a coupon online. They also sell dried flowers and essential oils.

Plus, I forgot to say I use one of those shields that comes down and covers your face. It’s got the glasses and it’s got the plastic shield that just come straight down from the glasses. Way nicer than the glasses because it also protects the face.

I’ve always wanted to try this. I’m a soap maker too! I found your video very helpful.

I like this video best it shows all the steps with the realness of making tallow soap instead of editing out all the little steps like removing the impurities. Thanks for this informative video.

That's really neat. Thank you. I love when you see people using the animal as much as possible. So cool

the most simple easy way of making soap from tallow loved ur simplicity throuout the vedio all d best💌

my grandmother would do this with tallow .she would take the bones from the cow and make broth and then make bone meal fertilizer from the bones

I like this lady. Did a nice job explaining. God Bless

I learned something new today.👍

Excellent! I just rendered lard for the 1st time & felt such a sense of accomplishment. I may try this when we get our 1/2 beef next year.

Thanks, love this!

Great video, thanks, I’m looking to buy beef in bulk, and that’s how I got here, I’m going to try this, thanks again and keep pumping out videos 🤘🏼👀

You are amazing! How do you have the patience to do all the things you do!

Thank you for the video - it was beautifully explained at every step and very clear. 😊

Great video

this great video thank you me the hubby are try this 💗💗💗💗💗💗

Thank you

Ty for showing this video. I had no idea you could use tallow for soap! I will definitely try this.

This is easier than I thought ❣️

Thank u

I buy my lye in the laundry aisle of my local coop grocery store.

So I just watched another video from someone else. For her soap she needed 200g of water for the lye mixture. She actually uses half ice and half room temp water. She does this to keep the mixture from steaming and getting hot. It's safer and you wouldn't have to go outside to do that step

I have made soaps in the past. And I've read through lots of folk's recipes. Some use coconut oil.. I've heard that coconut oil gives more bubbles. Each fat has its benefits. What's your reason for using this fat? Seems like a lot of work. I'm sure you get great soap though😺

Ace Hardware store has lye in the plumbing section.

Hi Stephanie! What a great video. I just made my soap with your help and it seems to have gone according to plan. :) I have a question for you. Do you use your tools exclusively for making soap? (ie your crock pot, ladle, immersion blender etc) Or do you use these items when you cook food, too? I was just wondering if I can double dip, or if I have to use these tools exclusively to make soap. Thanks!

How would you add Brazilian purple clay to this? The ratio for this recipe?

Thanks for the video! I am now a subscriber!! Quick question, I've rendered the fat, chilled the fat, then took the impurities off the bottom. Now I'm going to repeat the process three more times. My question is how long do I let the tallow cook during this process?

So glad I came across your video this is great... what state are you in? We live in florida and have a lot of great beef farms.

Love your video! Thank you for sharing your process. I have a question: When you cook the fat overnight in your crock pot on low is there a temp you are aiming for? Mine was getting pretty hot on low so I turned it down to “keep warm”. It still came up to 180 degrees. Is this ok? Is this what you want to happen? I’m worried about burning it.

Is there something productive to do with the juice & scraped off stuff after refrigeration? All the scraps of meat you originally cut off?

I'm making soap right now for second time. I doubled the batch, weighed tallow and lye, measured water by volume (mason jar with markings). The mixture is thick and foamy, not pourable pudding consistency. Thinking there's too much tallow, so should have measured tallow by volume. What do you think?

Can’t you make your own lye from ashes? Isn’t that how it was done in the old days? Would be free then lol ❤

I love this so much!! Thank you for taking the time to share this ! I honestly had no idea what soap was even made out of until this last year. how sad is that? My hubby is Greek and his skin loves Olive oil soap but I think mine may like this better so I am definitely gonna try this !

Have you used the tallow for cooking fat as well? Do you go through 3-4 purifications for that as well?

Do you keep a crockpot and utensils just for the soap making? Or are they ok to use for cooking after washing?

Thanks! Did u get your mold for Christmas?

I want to try this we are getting a 1/2 cow in sept/Oct… we will getting everything from the cow !!! My brother is getting the other 1/2 of cow so he his giving me all his extras ( as they call it)

You did not say how much tallow to that 12.5oz water 2.5oz lye

At the end when you were talking about the soaps being cut up it was very difficult to hear you and I didn't get half of what you said. ☹️

Have you cooked with tallow? Manteca de res?

Any concerns of PFAS using plastic and heat?

I thought that was used for make your own lard . Is there something else that’s you make lard out of or you can do both?

Have you ever used lye from fireplace ash?

Is it steam or vapor? I think if it smells bad & is not safe to inhale, that is vapor, possibly caustic vapor.

I don’t like to use plastic to mix the Lye,what other containers could I use

Can you use that soap to wash hair and clothes?

Will tallow soap clog up the drain?

Did you say how much fat to make the soap or did I just miss it? Thank you.

how is the lye safe to use? and how well does this lather up and how moisturizing is it after use - non-greasy?

How much melted lard measured out to lye and water mixture?

Can we use "any" cow fat?

Is there a formula if you do not have the tallow at exactly 32 ounces?

Is the same thing in Crisco?

you know if you grind that, like you would to make hamburger, it would render a lot more out.

how can i make soap like yours if i dont get the exact measurement?

Wth? I looked through your vids & didn't see this one. I commented on whole cow vid that I didn't see it & here it is in my feed. Weird.

What's the salt for?

Your voice is so low on this I have to hold my phone which is on Extreme High to my ear so I'm not seeing what you're doing just to hear your voice

Did you mention how much tallow you are using?