Thread: Turning Bath Soap Into Shaving Soap?

Originally Posted by rodb

Tallow soaps need to heat up slowly I think, a double boiler would be fine. In that first recipe with the Dove soap, I just grated everything into stainless pan and let it melt very slowly and kept stirring it. It sets back up just like they said and is the consistency of tub Margarine.

I tried Tallow soap in a microwave before I knew better, it doesn't melt consistently and wants to burn, very nasty!!

Thank you so much for your advice! I feel like I now know enough to start messing around.

Originally Posted by conroygc

Thank you so much for your advice! I feel like I now know enough to start messing around.

Good luck!! Both of the soaps work well (Clearly Natural or the Dove recipe), I use the Dove recipe probably 60% of the time.

Glycerin based soaps will melt to water like consistency with heat microwave or not. Tallow based soaps in the microwave just turn into a mess.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Glycerin based soaps will melt to water like consistency with heat microwave or not. Tallow based soaps in the microwave just turn into a mess.

Microwaving tallow soap is truly a stinky, terrible mess. Don't ever try it!!

Ya gotta remember, tallow is animal fat. Heating it in a microwave is just overcooking it at a high paced rate of speed.

Thank you all for the advice about not microwaving the tallow soap. I'm glad I didn't have to make that mistake.

I wanted to give my GF some of the girly smelling Yardley soap to try as shaving cream, so I grated some of it into a bowl, thinking I could pack it down into a solid easily. Long story short, that didn't work, so I tried putting the metal shaving mug in some really hot water to melt it, but that didn't work either. I know I should just google this, and I'll get around to it eventually