Looking for some lye soap.

[Catshooter]

Anybody know where a guy can find some? Thanks.


Cat

[Alvarez Kelly]

Anybody know where a guy can find some? Thanks.


Cat

Yep. My sister makes it. She has lots of different ones and once made a soap that "felt" like Lava soap.

She will sell some, but it's a hobby, so she won't have a huge quantity. She told me $4 a bar, 3.5 to 4.5 ounce bars, rough cut. She may do a quantity discount... Plus postage of course.

If you, or anyone else who wants some homemade lye soap, may want to contact her, I will PM you her email address.

[Ed Barrett]

Try this site;
http://astore.amazon.com/lye.soap-20

[geargnasher]

I buy some from time to time from a cottage outfit called "Grandma's", I think I still have a wrapper here somewhere, PM me if you run out of options. Most hippie/health food/vitamin stores carry lye soap. You can always use Ivory soap, but it's missing two of the triglycerides.

Gear

[Catshooter]

Mr. Kelly,

PM sent. Thanks for the quick responses gentlemen.


Cat

[smokemjoe]

I remember the folks on the farm 1950 make it after butchering hogs and cattle, Cook the fat down, add louis lye and pour it wooden boxs, It would eat the paint off a barn door, but we also had headcheese, brains, hog cheese and bloodsauers and that stuff you dont get in store. Around here at a old folks house auctions it still comes up.- soap

[mongoosesnipe]

I use dr broners soaps http://www.drbronner.com/DBMS/LS.htm they have liquid castle soap made with KOH and bar soap made with NaOH (lye) I refer to it as hippie soap as it billed as all natural fair trade organic... But it's really nice soap

[Jailer]

Make your own, it's not that hard. I'll never buy soap again after making my own, it really is that much better.

http://www.millersoap.com/

[swamp]

Catshooter,
I make it and haven't used store bought for years. Mine is just lye and grease. Nothing added. If you would like to try some PM me your info and I will send you some to try.
swamp

[AviatorTroy]

Yea I save all the bacon grease I can and once a year make a batch up, I like about 50-50 bacon grease and olive oil for a general purpose soap.

Use the saponification table and shoot for about 5% excess oils in your recipie. Also I measure everything out and add the lye to the lard first, let it trace, and then after a few minutes add the olive oil. I my mind and I could be wrong but any excess oils left over that don't saponify will be the olive oil which is better for skin and doesn't putrify.

[Catshooter]

Swamp, I sent you a PM, thank you for your generous offer.

Aviator, interesting. What saponify mean? What does letting it trace mean?

Thanks.


Cat

[felix]

To saponify means to convert something oily/waxy/greasy which is not water soluble into something that is. Tracing is a funky name for something that will gently and slowly roll down a wall when the wall is splashed with that something, and leave a definite trail of that something on the wall. ... felix

[Catshooter]

Cool Felix, thanks.


Cat

[Wayne Smith]

Excellent definition of "Trace", Felix!

[btroj]

Call your congressman, they can get you "lie soap", it helps keep them looking clean.....

Sadly, it doesn't remove the stench

[Bill*]

Try this site;
http://astore.amazon.com/lye.soap-20

That link alerted MSE (antivirus)

[AviatorTroy]

That miller soap website explains it pretty good. In soap making, the trace is when you start to get the chemical reaction that causes the oils to saponify. Takes a few minutes of stirring in a pan at I believe 140 degrees, or you can do it in a blender and its darn near instantaneous!

After I am happy that the batch is going set up right I pour it in a muffin mold and let it set up for a couple weeks. I find the silicone muffin molds are perfect for this.

"Castle" soaps are 100% olive oil but I like having at least 2 maybe 3 kinds of oils in a batch, because each source of grease gives the final soap product different characteristics like lather, grease cutting ability, some are better for your skin than others, etc.

If I have any I like to throw some some beef or venison tallow in too, it makes the soap real hard and durable. But bacon grease is free so that is going to usually be the bulk of the ingredients. I think a real good mix is 25% beef tallow, 50% bacon lard, 25% olive oil and I usually throw some crushed up dehydrated mint or lemon balm leaves in there to make it smell better..

Just make sure you very carefully calculate how much lye to use in proportion to each fat you use.

[xs11jack]

The wife and I went to a cane sugar harvest here in MO. several years ago and on a whim I bought a bar of goat milk soap. Suppose to be wonderful in the shower. It stunk so bad I threw it away. Is the stuff you guys make with the bacon, etc. smell and work any better than that goat stuff??
Jack

[swamp]

I don't know about goat milk soap. Mine smells like soap unless I add some essential oil I use in my candles. I don't normally add anything. Once in awhile maybe a candle for color.

swamp

[MBTcustom]

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