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01-21-2015, 07:50 PM #1
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Thanked: 4What are the fundamentals of a tallow based home-made shaving soap?
As I sit here, eating a plate of bacon, I recall "holy crap, I have an entire mason jar of bacon fat and very little shaving soap left!"
I haven't ever made soap before, but I am familiar with chemistry and how to weigh and measure things properly and what to expect from this and that and blah blah blah blah, 'I think I can do it' is what I am trying to say here. However, my search for a bacon fat soap recipe didn't match up well with my search for shaving soap recipes. Not only were most shaving soaps made with olive/coconut/castor oil and no tallow, they were also made with a blend of all three and then some more ingredients! This is confusing, as I previously thought soap was simple and that shaving soaps would be a different variety of simple, but simple none the less.
"Don't give up," I told myself. "I will ask the community!"
So here I am, asking the community. Is there a "basic" recipe for a lathering shaving soap that can be produced with bacon fat? I don't need it to out perform store bought soap, smell like anything at all, or be a premium bar of beauty incarnate... I just want free soap. I have bacon fat, coconut oil, olive oil, and glycerin on hand, and would like to use as few of them as possible.
Thanks for reading, quadruple thanks for responding!