Thread: What are the fundamentals of a tallow based home-made shaving soap?

Originally Posted by Siguy

Hey. That's awesome and welcome.

Here's the results of an advanced search by Topic (search term "making soap" :

http://straightrazorpalace.com/searc...archid=3065234

Great place to start. Fascinating, really.

Now you did say quadruple thanks, so I expect you to click on the Thanks button 4 times

After pressing the thanks button once, I saw it change into a "report this post" button. Luckily, I caught myself.

I did browse both google and some forums, including these. The only problem is that I keep running into advanced formulas for superior soaps. For example, one of the first results of my advanced search had a recipe with avocado oil in it! Why avocado oil when you already have coconut, olive, and castor oil, along with shea butter and tallow. I mean, sounds like a great soap and all, but I feel like only a couple of these are necessary and I can't seem to find any recipes that only use necessary ingredients.