You are more than welcome! Jac's fleece went into the pot today and started a suint fermentation scour that will take at least a week. I will be experimenting with refining methods to ensure I can get adequate and reliable results to share
There will be very soon! As I hadn't actually tested the theory on refining, I thought I better had. Especially having discredited an extracting theory. The results were disappointing! So I have challenged myself to find a way of using accessible substances and equipment to get good results in practice. I have been posting some of my experiments on my Fflwff facebook page. I am getting close!
Thank you! I will be setting a suint scour up in the morning. I am wondering whether the raw lanolin from suint scoured fleece would require further refinement? I will be comparing it to a refining method. The suint scour will take at least a week. Hoping it will be worth the wait.
That was so interesting, thank you! When I spin I only wash the fleece lightly, as I love the feel of the lanolin when I spin. I never thought about trying to extract the lanolin - so I'm really looking forward to your next episode.
Thank you! I plan on comparing two method of refining the raw lanolin. But for one I will need to suint scour the fleece first, which will take at least a week. Hopefully it will be worth the wait!
In my most recent batch, I used grated olive oil soap bar, but usually use unicorn powerscour or Austration fibre scour for special fleeces and dish washing up detergent for everything else. Dawn, fairy or an eco dish washing detergent.
I have over a hundred hours of recordings to sort through, but I will have a video to show you how to refine your own. If you use organic fleece, you will get pesticide free lanolin. If you don't fancy having a go yourself, I am hoping that others will feedback with their results and may start selling their homemade lanolin. If anybody reading this already produces organic lanolin, please feel free to share a link!
