Making Soap with Tallow!? Recipe Included!

[@cliviascreations]

Good morning my friend. I am so happy you like the essential oil combo. Lovely soap. Thank you for your shoutout. I appreciate you!

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

I love giving you a shoutout and I love being able to call you friend! 💕 I am so thankful for you helping me with the EO blend, it is so perfect. it would have been the best for my failed dandelion soap LOL - maybe next year haha I have had a couple of commenters asking for the actual blend in %, I will let you decide if you want me to share it or not, I'm fine with whatever you want

[@cliviascreations]

you know I am not a gatekeeper person and love to help and share. My only requirement is for them to give me credit and support my page by sharing with others. I am not charging any money, not selling my formula just asking for some support and recognition to my business. You always support my business and I am glad to help! Blessings

[@MsAubrey]

Love me some tallow soap! ❤

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

My first of many I am sure - I'm really loving it too🤗

[@melissapeterson4202]

I think your soap looks lovely and elegant❤. Thanks for sharing!

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Hi Melissa! Thank you so much! Hope you are having a good week🤗💕

[@MsAubrey]

I’ve done a tallow / lard / castor blend for a FO that accelerated and it worked out nicely.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

huh, maybe it was me. I have had comments on both sides saying different things on the tallow speed...

[@MsAubrey]

@ I’ve had similar experiences with what people have stated.

[@roxaneevans1187]

I love tallow soaps, they are one of my favorites can’t wait to try this recipe and EO blend

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

I'm loving it so much! Looking forward to making more soaps with it! Let me know if you try my recipe and what you think! 😍

[@roxaneevans1187]

@ I will be trying it in the morning , I have all the ingredients needed and excited to try the EO blend course will have to figure that out on amts.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

@@roxaneevans1187 I checked and Clivia said I could share the % - she would just like credit if you use it. 25% Bergamot, 29% lavender, 45% orange and 1% lemongrass

[@roxaneevans1187]

@ will do

[@jinipatton3200]

Your soap turned out beautiful. I love Tallow soaps - they are so creamy. Can I ask where you got your soap mold?

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Thanks! I got my mold from Winston and Walter - winstonandwalter.ca/collections/hdpe-molds-high-density-polyethylene-moules-hdpe-polyethylene-de-haute-densite/products/hdpe-winston-tall-skinny-loaf-mold-7-5lbs

[@paulalynrider4009]

Lard is slow, tallow is quicker and palm is super fast, in my experience, I also cant ever get the spatula to stand in the mold. i keep my recipes even simpler! yours turned out really nice! I love simple soaps!

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Thanks Paula, for the info.💕 I guess I never considered palm to be fast...now you have me thinking. LOL

[@AndiNewtonian]

I've never tried tallow soap. I'll need to check it out some time. Also, I love, love, loooooove your Be Kind shirt!

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

hi Andi!! Thanks, I really like this shirt too 💕💕💕

[@dianehedricks7860]

These turned out beautiful!!! I use tallow or lard in ever soap, for the buttery feel of the bubbles, and it seems to slow down my trace but I do soap at 90*. These turned out BEAUTIFUL and will be a very hard, long lasting bar❣️

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Thanks Diane!! 😍I am in love with this one. I love the soap made with both tallow and lard too. I can't decide which is my favorite. A couple of commenters have said that the tallow does not increase trace for them. I do think after looking back on some of my more recent videos that I am stick blending more than I realize I am in the moment. 🤔

[@norawalsh5471]

I love it! There really is something gorgeous about a simple soap. 😊

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

aw, thanks Sweet Nora!! 💕

[@Olivia-yw8zc]

I tried a bar with 25% each tallow and lard, it was really lovely.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

ohh Oliva, that does sound lovely! My tallow / lard soap I made was with 15% tallow and 20% lard. But I like the idea of going up with both of them...😃

[@Olivia-yw8zc]

@WalnutCreekBathBoutique thanks, actually I should make some more now I'm thinking about it again. Here in Australia the tallow is a cheaper price than the lard. Which might be why so many soapers in the US prefer to use only lard.

[@BeechHillSoap]

Hi Tammy! Great video🤗 that essential oil blend sounds heavenly, can you tell the percentages used for this blend so I can put it into eocalc? If not that’s fine. Thank you for sharing the recipe!🤗

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Hi Lisa! Thank you 🤗 I checked and Clivia said I could share the % - she would just like credit if you use it. 25% Bergamot, 29% lavender, 45% orange and 1% lemongrass 💕

[@BeechHillSoap]

@ Thank you Tammy, and thanks to Clivia for creating this blend and sharing!I will certainly give her credit! 🤗

[@BeechHillSoap]

@@WalnutCreekBathBoutique seems like there was Cedarwood in this blend also?

[@suesparkledimndart4309]

Thanks Tammy video was great 😊😊

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Glad you enjoyed it😃

[@loricolwell1470]

Hello gorgeous!!! Nothing like a simple soap agreed. Love the bubbles. 20lbs of fat in the freezor i need to take care of. 🤦‍♀️

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Hi Lori!! You sweet thing!💕 So 20 pounds of fat that needs processing down?? I think I spent 2 months trying to get through all of our tallow and lard that needed rendered. whew! that took forever! but I do have quite a bit to get started on some soap in the next month or so. I'm trying to take a couple of months off, I've wore myself down since the covered bridge. I'm getting to old 😂

[@loricolwell1470]

@WalnutCreekBathBoutique 😂 covered bridge is A LOT you deserve a little break after all that. I just need to get off my booty and get it rendered.🤭

[@Kmia0206]

❤

[@patsydettinburn9582]

Would you share you EO blend, please?

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

I checked and Clivia said I could share the % - she would just like credit if you use it. 25% Bergamot, 29% lavender, 45% orange and 1% lemongrass

[@patsydettinburn9582]

@@WalnutCreekBathBoutique THank you so much!!

[@patsydettinburn9582]

@@WalnutCreekBathBoutique Was there any cedar wood in this blend. I am making this just for family. I don't sell.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

@@patsydettinburn9582 shoot, you are right - I added the same amount as the lemongrass - I think it was 1 gram.

[@SugarSmack216]

Ok, I tried your recipe and no idea what went wrong. Is it that tallow takes longer to harden in the mold or something? I wrapped mine overnight in a towel as per my norm and unmolded to cut 24 hours later. But my batch looked weird and felt weird! Spots of the tallow appear through the orange coloring I gave it with mica to go with the orange scent I chose. And the texture was oddly soft and crumbly at the same time. This is my first experience using tallow, so I just don’t know…wondering if I didn’t get it to actually go through gel phase, or maybe I didn’t wait long enough to unmold? Have you experienced this?

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

I have not had that problem at all. Where are you getting your tallow? that is really weird - I went to make sure I wrote it in the description box correctly and I did. I'm stumped. The only thing I can think of is your lye / water amounts... If you used my amounts I will share that my lye was 10.43 oz, and I used 19.84 water with a 6% superfat. If you didn't use my batch size let me know your oil weight and I can see what my SM3 shows for lye/water amount.🤔

[@SugarSmack216]

@WalnutCreekBathBoutique I did change my batch size and I think I’ve sourced the problem to two different things. 1. I pre batch my lye solution according to the mold I used BUT failed to double check the lye content to account for using your tallow recipe over my standard recipe 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ and 2. I got my tallow from Essential Depot so I assume it to be high quality BUT I notice it has a grainy texture before melting it down so I wonder if it may have gone through a temperature change during shipping that affected it 🤔

[@tassiegirl1991]

Hi Tammy. I love simple soaps to use this is a real nice one colour top wish I could smell it. I’ll try putting those EO together I have them all at hand never used 5 at once only three. If you can share the grams that would be super. I’m in Aus. Thanks Tammy

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Thanks!! I checked and Clivia said I could share the % - she would just like credit if you use it. 25% Bergamot, 29% lavender, 45% orange and 1% lemongrass🤗

[@Olivia-yw8zc]

If my lye is colder I put my sodium lactate in my lye water and that brings the temp right to equal my oils. Although some say temp doesnt matter. But I still keep them in range anyway. Id hate to waste soap just on busting the myth.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

I sorta do that too but my sodium lactate never brings up my temp high enough. I don't think having the 2 temps really close together is as important as when I first started making soap, but I do try to soap around 85-90 degrees.

[@happybrushchely7170]

I have been going to therapy for a bad right shoulder from my aunts dog. After 3 months of doing nothing, I am making a lard soap with bacon scent for a friend that had a heart attack. He misses the smell of bacon.

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

oh Chely, shoulders are the worst I think. Hoping therapy is helping you! I think that is so funny your making that soap and for it to smell like bacon. Well done my friend! 😂

[@MsAubrey]

Honestly… I’ve never had tallow speed anything up for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@WalnutCreekBathBoutique]

Hi Aubrey!! 🤗