I have been making soap for years, and I started selling it 7 months ago. I use tallow for all of my products I sell!! I LOVE it, and the benefits from it are so amazing!❤❤❤ Also, I love your videos! I don't comment very often, but I just have to spread my love for tallow!!😅
I have been binge-watching your videos for the past couple of days. My grandmother is in the hospital so while I am sitting with her in her room we have been watching your videos. My grandmother taught me how to make soap from saved bacon fat and beef fat from hamburger in 2020. She taught me how to clean it. She has a recipe from my great-grandmother on how to make lye, but I suggested that we use my lye from Bramble Berry. She says she wishes she had all the fragrances like today when she was a little girl.
That is so awesome!!! I believe it's so important to share and pass down our heritage. I started making soap 5 years ago with my mom, then with my daughter, and my granddaughter helped with the cutting and drying. I love that we've shared this with 4 generations!!! Would you be willing to share your great-grandmother's receipe for lye? Also how do you clean the meat grease to use?
@@marydunnington8001 There are two different ways that my great-grandmother made lye. The main thing is it has to be with ashes from HARD wood. One of the ways is to collect all the ashes and put them in a 5-gallon bucket and cover them with water and then let it sit 8-12 weeks. I have used PH strips to test it. Strain it and put it in a glass container for storage. When making soap you do not have to add any water when it comes to the lye solution because it's already added. She also has a way to boil it over an open fire to crystalize it but I have not tried that yet. I have young kids and don't want them around the fire pit while doing that.
@@marydunnington8001 Oh yeah I forgot my grandmother says to let the soap sit a little longer if you are doing cold process soap, but we have made it on the stove and in the crock pot. The hot process soap and it's worked out even better.
@ashley-cz1sl I'm saving up beef fat from hamburger to make soap. I plan to clean it a couple of times by boiling it in salt water. Do you use it at 100% of oils? Does it move fast? Thanks
Hi Ellen, as a farmer’s wife I use tallow in 98% of my soaps. Love the stuff! I agree with the soap man’s comment below, it’s never the tallow that makes it speed up. Usually something else I did! 😂😂 Beautiful soap!
I'm excited to see you making this discovery. I hope you'll stick with it. I think you'll find it's worth the effort. Quite a while ago, I decided I didn't want to use palm oil in my soaps, so I switched to tallow, lard, or a combination of tallow and lard. Great decision. Despite the high saturated fats, my soap is always slow to trace, and I love the way the soap performs much more than I liked palm. It takes a little while for the soaps to harden up, as you discovered, but I do end up with nice hard bars in the end. Thanks for sharing your experiment with us. I love your enthusiasm.
I used your recipe to make the soap last night. Today at 5:pm I thought it was hard enough to remove from the mold, and while I could remove it easily, it was still soft so I put it in a bigger mold to leave it for some more time. But I got some pieces in my hand, so I used them to wash my hands, and OMG the lather is just GORGEOUS! So soft and rich and bubbly! No soap I have bought even matches it! Thank you for this incredible recipe. I am hooked. This was my first soap ever. And it is already so promising. I will cut it into pieces tomorrow. Thank you Thank you Thank you!
@@EllenRuthSoap I have a question. My hand had a slight burning sensation when I washed my hands with those pieces. Is it because the soap was still soft and not cured fully? I followed the recipe weights exactly, so the lye wasn’t too much. I would love to understand as this is the very first soap I made. And it is so bubbly, so wonderful. I want the burning feeling to not happen again.
Thank you for sharing your video. I have made soap using tallow and love it. Hopefully it will help with our farmers and economy in Britain. Tallow was used in both soap and candles many years ago. I have made candles with tallow too and they are brilliant. 😃👍
@@debbieescobar6267 Yes. Salmon oil is incredible. I also have been loving Wagyu Beef tallow. I’m going to be trying chicken fat too. I have very dry skin and I find that combining animal fat with produce oil is my solution.
I love tallow soap Ellen! It’s so beautiful, I haven’t ever used beef tallow but I have used sheep tallow and if you use to much it can be a bugger and moves fast! But is a beautiful soap! ❤❤❤
I just love your videos. You are a wonderful inspiration and and excellent resource . You have given me the confidence to try all types of ingredients and I am happy to say I have made some wonderful soaps for family and friends. Keep sharing your passion with your fabulous videos!
I love tallow soap, and that scent winter woods sounds right up my ally too. Beautiful bars Ellen. I made some cute mango mini bars for kids with my tallow recipe, I used a mango fragrance with orange & green swirls to accent the white batter.
My soaps have tallow in them! I love using tallow, and my batter stays pretty fluid as long as I use a whisk to blend. I'm a beast with my stick blender, I end up with soap-on-a-stick a lot. 😅
Totally made me LOL 😂. All of my soaps have tallow in them and my recipes are from the 70's which means they say everything must be at the exact same temperature and the temperature for tallow soaps is 140. You can imagine what happened the first time I used a stick blender. 😢 needless to say, I've learned a little about temperatures and using a stick blender since.
I just love watching you soap! I’m at year 13 of my soap making journey and continue to enjoy learning. Luckily my mother has a great local store where I can sell and continue my craft. Oh don’t show lots of blending 😂
Ellen I love tallow soaps. I make my own since the butcher is closed to us and you can get it almost free. It’s amazing and I love to use it in face creams as well. But my fav is bison tallow. Lovely soap!
I’ve had to leave my tallow soaps in the mold for a few days to let them harden enough that I don’t feel like I’m going to dent them. I’m glad to see it isn’t only me that ended up with a softer soap at cut time.
@@EllenRuthSoap that’s awesome! Mine are almost through the curing process and are looking great too. I’m still new to this but I’m so in love with the process and creativity it brings out!! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.
You always have a lot of good information. I would say show all the blending part and just tell us about you and intermittently drop some soap knowledge lol thank you for being a great teacher.
Amazing! Love the ingredients. I too use Organic Tallow in some of soaps recipe. It gives an amazing layer. It has great benefits. Thank you Mrs. Ellen
Thank you for this easy to follow recipe. I want to try it for my first attempt at soap making. I just have some questions about the additives. What are the purposes and benefits of the clay, the colloidal oats, the activated charcoal, the sugar, and the silk? Also, since the purpose of making soap is to avoid chemical exposure, could you comment on the health effects of the fragrances.
Have fun soaping! The clay, oats & charcoal all have different skin benefits, I suggest a google search for a full list.. The sugar is a lather booster, and the silk gives the lather a "silky" feel that is so nice. All additves are extra, and you'll still get a fabulous soap without them.. As far as fragrance goes I only use Phthalate & paraben free ones, so I do feel comfortable using them. Or you can stick with essential oils only.
I love beef tallow soaps, I use tallow in all my soaps because it makes hard bars and it is good and moisturizing 😊. I have these same molds and I use them all the time and I hate the way they release the soap, so I let them in for a few days, but I have to have my husband drill holes in the bottom of mine lol, I never thought of that, thanks 👍. I use the tallow, coconut oil and olive oil recipes in a lot of my soaps too and shea butter works wonderful too. I love the black swirls too. I was wondering when you would make a tallow soap, I use the same tallow you did, I'm going to make my own tallow soon. Thanks Ellen for the wonderful video, see you in the next one! 😊
Ellen where do you purchase your Silk… mine never 100% melts correctly? Also where do you buy your colloidal oats from? Have a great day… Thank you for being you & super awesome! Hello from Toms River- NJ
Awesome work thanks for recipe I had to add 5 oz extra olive oil due to my pot stick blender wasn't blending good I might go with a 40oz with oils maybe 16tal 14 coco 10 olive light only do 1oz essential oil used tea tree 1.45 and. 3 lemon grass but tea tree definitely very strong will use 1 oz maybe after it's cure time might not be as strong
As always I love watching your about especially this one about Tallow soap...thinking now that I'm going to have to try it. Is there an EO that your would recommend for this recipe instead of a fragrance. Thank you
Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤ I hope to have success 🙌 I need to go non toxic..... So l must not use essential or fragrant oils. %100 pure. I truly appreciate your help.
I am making this tonight. Watching your video bit by bit and following the steps. I have a question about the fragrance. During the several weeks of curing, doesn't the fragrance disappear?
Thank you for sharing this recipe. You mentioned adding salt, if wanting a harder bar. You did not add it in this recipe, but later found that the soap was soft longer than usual. Would this be a good reason to add salt to this particular recipe?
Cute swirls and I love that fragrance. A very nice one. Love tallow and I am a member of Essential Depot. Shipping is free right now on 7 lbs. of Beef Tallow. Cheers & Blessings👍💕
Hi Ellen, I’m looking for a good custom soap stamp that’s is rectangle in shape. I’ve only found round ones. Do you remember where you purchased the one you use in the video from?
YESSSSSSSS! I’m going to try this and that scent sounds PERFECT! You increased the water with the lye. Do you think it could possibly be discounted to 8 Oz?
I’m new to soap making, I’m on my 5th batch. I’m definitely doing this recipe, could anyone tell me what fragrance to use, I don’t see a link for it. Also, I’d love if anyone can tell me what are the additives for? Thank you! Love this video, plus her English is so clear and beautiful.
Hey Ellen! I made a version of this soap with a few changes, I upped tallow to 50%, dropped coconut and olive oil to 22.5% and added castor at 5% keeping the 6% superfat. I lather tested at day 4 like you showed and although super bubbly and creamy, it left my hands very dry. Did you experience this? Is it because it hasnt fully cured? Ive read some things that say the coconut is too high but others that dont. With your coconut being even higher, I assume youd have a similar first test batch that Im hoping cured more conditioning.
My first thought is, did you run the changes thru soap calc? It might have changed the lye concentration. And I like to super fat at 5-6%, that really helps with any dryness feel.
I did and it adjusted the lye concentration. I also did sf at 6%. Im reading the dryness could be because the bar is so new and not fully cured? Did yours feel try when you batch tested for the video? Did it fix after curing time? @@EllenRuthSoap
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you. I also ran the numbers in soapcalc to make sure I had everything right. Your recipe calls for 10 oz of water and saopcalc calls for 8.6. I know it’s a very small difference but I wondered why you increased the water amount?
Ty for the video and recipe! Can I sub goat milk for the water? And if I want the bar white how much titanium dioxide would you suggest using in this recipe?
I have used goat milk in my tallow soaps. The lye solution turns orange, but the finished bars are white. I never used TD in my soaps. As long as the FO doesn't discolor, the bars are bright white
I’m just starting my soap making journey, first by binge watching lots of videos. My daughter an I have very reactive skin especially with fragrances which is why my first soap will be a tallow soap.. Can I just leave the fragrance out or will doing this affect anything?
Ellen, I bought some walnut oil for the balm, also. Do you know if walnut oil can be added in the soap oil mixture? This will be my first try and I don’t want to mess it up.😂
👋🏻 been kicking around the idea of using tallow in my skincare and I was in fact thinking of using it in soap. When you say homestead style are you saying you can create a hardened bar w/o the need for lye as the tallow has the natural salts? I am a bit afraid of lye so really looking for options not using it if possible.
I said homestead, because this recipe is a simple one. You can’t make soap without lye, there’s lots of great videos and articles about safely working with it.. I have a tallow balm video coming on Friday 😉
@@EllenRuthSoap Thank you so much! Hopefully so extra safety education will get me over my anxiety. A balm sounds lovely! Wonder if I can use the lilac effleurage I am currently making as an added oil. I appreciate you, Ellen!
@ellenruthsoap if I wanted to add goat milk to this recipe I believe I would reduce the distilled water? I 'm wanting to make my own goat milk and tallow soap.
@@EllenRuthSoap thank you so much for the reply and your knowledge. I really enjoy watching and learning from you! we just recently brought home 4 adult goats and 2 baby girls. Excited to get started making my soap. Just have to find goat milk LOL- until mine are bred and in milk.
January 5 10 AM Ellen, her soap is that a greeny feeling on it and you can see the grains in it. Can you comment on that we’re just at a loss to how to address this issue. Can we still sell it?
I hv been making soaps about 5 yrs now i dont know if u can help me get some fragrances and colours for my soap making plz im a ylung entrupunire im having a hard time with fragrances n colours can u help
Tallow is an infinitely better alternative than palm oil ...... It's actually disheartening how many hand-made soap makers will ignore the many downsides of palm oil in order to label their soap as "vegan friendly".
You can't make any "claims" about soap other than I will clean you, or you cross into the cosmetics range and that has a whole host of different regulations...
