Lanolin extraction from Sheep's wool DIY : My learning Process, homemade from scratch 

Weee finely someone is really doing this at home. I think the result look great🙂😊🐑

My wife and I have owned sheep for 3 years and we have been trying to extract lanolin this entire time. We've scoured every corner of the internet this whole time and your video has answered all our questions. Thanks so much!

There's another video and she doesn't go to detail but when she put the wool in the pot water didn't go brown. So I think she washed it on cold water until no more dirt came out.

Thanks for showing your experiments. After seeing this I looked up some other stuff about extracting lanolin, and it seems like the best way is to clean it in very cold soapy water first, rinse it very well, still with very cold water. Then, to get a cleaner lanolin, soak the wool in very hot water WITHOUT soap. Once the wool is out, keep the water, stir it--not to mix it, but to create a whirlpool effect so the dirt falls to the bottom. Let it sit and cool undisturbed, and when cool the lanolin should rise to the top so you can skim it off. This should produce a cleaner lanolin.

I think you will have better results if you remove more dirt at the beginning. Instead of a quick cold water rinse, let it soak several hours, or overnight, changing the water every few hours. A lot of dirt can come out this way.

Wow, that's a lot of lanolin from just one fleece, thanks for answeing so many questions I had about this!

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Is was incredible to see and learn!

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing. I agree with others that a good cold wash with soap would get rid of most of the brownness and impurities. Good idea to use the lanolin as a leather conditioner. I might try it. For a while, I didn't scour the lanolin from my fleeces. I just gave them a cold soap wash. Thus made the fleeces clean and bright, with lots of lanolin still in there. Doing a similar thing to your fleece and boiling the wool may work. Also, I noticed with two Romney sheep fleeces I had, the clear yellow lanolin dripped right out and collected at the bottom of the bag it was in. I had probably 1/4th of a cup (idk in mL) at the bottom of the bag without trying. It might be worth noting which of your sheep produces the most lanolin, so you can use their fleece for this. (I don't own sheep. I just buy fleeces occasionally.) Was the wool any good after you boiled it? Or was it unusable for spinning or felting?

Thanks for this video! I've subscribed. Can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! :)

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I think the issue of the color of the final product is a result of not cleaning the wool enough times before boiling. I think the consistency looks very good, though. :)

Siv,that is wonderful,what do you do with the lanolin,then? I made blackberry ink a few years ago..xx

I wonder if you wash the wool in cold water first, would it make it cleaner without washing out all the lanolin?

Is the wool usable after the extraction process?