Soap Recipes

Summary

This is my first go at using tallow, and my first try with cold process oven process. It's also my largest batch so far at 1kg oil, ~1.5kg total weight out of the mould. Fragrance at 15g. Even split of tea tree, eucalyptus and pine. French red clay used for colour, 16g, with 16g sweet almond added to fragrance and color mix to act as a carrier. Colour is nice, but could be deeper. Very slow trace, a solid few minutes of blending. Then put in preheated oven @ 100°. Too hot, and I turned the oven back on after a while, because I had opened it to look. Some surface level bubbling as a result. Next time stick to 70-80° The bars are noticeably harder thanks to the beef tallow. Inner consistency is really good. Ph strips show between 9-10, so reaction is complete. Current moulds struggle with this much weight, so they bow a lot in the middle Need boxed moulds for batches this size going forward. Cut into 10 large bars + 2 small end pieces, combined into 1.