Update to the update!
Made another batch. I'll post the recipe here soon. It looks ugly, but it shaves REALLY nicely! This was a soap heavy on "manteca" and coconut oil.
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Update to the update!
Made another batch. I'll post the recipe here soon. It looks ugly, but it shaves REALLY nicely! This was a soap heavy on "manteca" and coconut oil.
So Manteca is lard (Pig Fat) I would love to see this recipe i'd love to try this myself one day. Use a boar brush to enhance the piggy goodness of the lather;)
Okay...
1/2 Manteca
1/3 coconut oil
1/3 castor oil
Is there any saponification happening here or is this just face grease?
Thankyou I'd love to try it out
Yeah...you've got problems. I'm a bit of a 'history of technology' buff and what the news media has portrayed here in the US I will interpret as basically climbing your way down the technology ladder. I would suggest the following:
1. If you can't find Lye, which is SODIUM hydroxide, you can also make liquid soap from POTASSIUM hydroxide.
2. If you really insist on hard soap, you will need Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH). See link HERE --> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...ium-hydroxide/ If batteries are scarce in Argentina, PM me and I'll send you some links how to generate electricity with things you can probably find. Not 'power the house" electricity, but "make a small batch of chemicals" electricity.
3. If liquid'ish soap, good enough for body washing, is good enough for you, then see How to Make Lye: 13 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
4. Note that 2 and 3 make DIFFERENT forms of lye. I send you these links because if you can't get soap, it's highly unlikely you will be able to find Lye (Sodium Hydroxide NaOH) or Potassium Hydroxide.
5. You need to enter the correct type into the 'soap calculator'. See soap calculator --> SoapCalc
Note that the soap calculator allows you to choose a HUGE array of different oils: coconut oil, pig fat, beef fat, palm oil, peanut oil, olive oil, etc. The problem you will have is determining lye strength using what you get from the above links. You should go one step further and simmer (NOT BOIL) the lye until it is a dry powder. Then you can dissolve the correct amount. You can also check the pH for 'neutrality' or 'baseness' using litmus paper. You want your soap to have neutral pH. Hugely important, and hugely hugely important for soap used on children, the elderly, or beautiful ladies with radiant skin. Not so important for macho manly men that don't care about walking around with huge chemical burns on their dumb selves.
6. But....if you can't find soap, you sure as heck won't find litmus paper or pH meters. See here --> Test papers: Journey to Forever
One more thing...manteca as the word is used in the local 'pocho' dialect in Texas does not mean 'butter', it means rendered pig fat. Butter...meaning thoroughly churned milk....is not used in the soap recipes I have seen. I believe that is the case because butter is not pure fat and not pure oil (fat=oil).