Still looks really nice
Goat Tallow Soap Recipe
I've decided to share my goat tallow soap recipe because the batch I made with it is finished curing and I have been using it for a few weeks now and loving it.
I've put the recipe in percentages so that you can put it in a lye calculator and adjust it to your mold.
50% Rendered Goat tallow. I use the wet method of rendering as seen in this video
20% Olive Oil
10% Sweet Almond Oil
8% Coconut Oil
7% Castor Oil
5% Shea Butter
33% Lye concentration
2% Superfat (since using a home rendered animal fat, a low superfat will help the bar not to spoil.)
I also use citric acid in the recipe at 2% of the oil weight to act as a preservative. When using citric acid, it's important to properly account for the amount of lye it will neutralize so adjust accordingly if your lye calculator doesn't do it for you. The one I linked above does. Here's a link to using citric acid in soap.
I generally do a complete water replacement with frozen goat milk, but water would work fine too.
I add Kaolin clay to all my recipes at a rate of two tsps. per pound of soap.
I have found this bar to be wonderfully hard, bubbles with a foamy, creamy lather, and is not drying to my hands.
If you make this recipe, I would love to hear your honest feedback on it, be it positive or negative! 😊
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The light part of this soap is uncolored so you can see what it looks like without pigment.
I've put the recipe in percentages so that you can put it in a lye calculator and adjust it to your mold.
50% Rendered Goat tallow. I use the wet method of rendering as seen in this video
20% Olive Oil
10% Sweet Almond Oil
8% Coconut Oil
7% Castor Oil
5% Shea Butter
33% Lye concentration
2% Superfat (since using a home rendered animal fat, a low superfat will help the bar not to spoil.)
I also use citric acid in the recipe at 2% of the oil weight to act as a preservative. When using citric acid, it's important to properly account for the amount of lye it will neutralize so adjust accordingly if your lye calculator doesn't do it for you. The one I linked above does. Here's a link to using citric acid in soap.
I generally do a complete water replacement with frozen goat milk, but water would work fine too.
I add Kaolin clay to all my recipes at a rate of two tsps. per pound of soap.
I have found this bar to be wonderfully hard, bubbles with a foamy, creamy lather, and is not drying to my hands.
If you make this recipe, I would love to hear your honest feedback on it, be it positive or negative! 😊
The light part of this soap is uncolored so you can see what it looks like without pigment.
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Just know that the properties of the soap may be very different with beef tallow. The fatty acid profile for beef fat is actually very different than a goats.
I don't see why you couldn't use store bought milk.
Oh I know. There are so many things to consider! Switching out for beef tallow might still make a very nice bar, and it will certainly make soap, but it probably won't be the same as my bar and there may be recipes formulated for beef tallow that would be better.
Really cool that you had a great grandmother that did that kind of soap making!
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