I am a Lard girl! The soap is so lush on the skin and never smells like bacon post saponification. Great lather as it cures. However, very slow mover and must have patience. If you over stick blend with an accelerator FO, you will be sad😂 Thank you Ellen, for always sharing your amazing talent and love for soap making.
Lovely Ellen, I hope you´ll be able to open your shop again in the near future. "Fight Club Soap" is a masculine and absolutely fitting name for your new product. You are one of my best loved Soap Queens ever! You´re a very good teacher. I´m from Germany and make my soap only for my family and friends. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I make a 100 % lard soap that, and my goat milk soap are my best-selling bars. Lard soap a while to trace and set up. Mine are fragrence and color free.
You will not regret it. Both are great, lard makes a very moisturizing lovely bar and tallow ( I had used beef and bison) make a very hard long lasting bars that feel just great not only in soaps but skin lotions and creams as well. Just try.
Stunning. I have personally only made one batch of very simple one color soap but I have watched roughly 1000 videos. Lol. Your swirls are my absolute favorite. Your soaps are always gorgeous regardless of the design but I can't get over your swirls! In addition to knowing the right time to swirl, I think it's also because you don't over work the swirls. I am getting ready to make a soap with a very subtle hanger swirl and I'm going to use what I've learned from your vids. Hopefully, it turns out half as gorgeous as yours.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to answer my question. You are so sweet.❤😊. The scale I was using would take forever to settle. I would put one oil away and get ready to measure the next, and the weight had changed up .4oz. So I REALLY appreciate it your comments.❤❤
I made a lard soap for my daughter-in-law. She had requested a fragrance that was known to accelerate, so I replaced my palm oil with lard and tweaked my recipe just a little in an attempt to slow it down. I did a layered soap and it worked great, but now I have a whole bucket of palm oil that I am going to struggle to use because I love the lard soap so much! 😂😅😊
Ellen, I am trying your laundry soap. Cannot wait to use it. Regarding the rendered bacon, we use it so often here. I clean the chicken, beef, and pig fat. Then If you have rendered it, the bacon scent will not remain after curing and will smell like the fragrance you use. This works like a dream. Actually, people many people love to know their bars were made with bacon!
Ellen, I love it! I use left over bacon and hamburger grease to make soap for washing dishes. Even without "cleaning" the grease, and with no fragrance, it only smells like soap. I use lard in my HP recipe so I may check into your supplier. Great job, like always!
Please never stop showing us your amazing soap videos! I have learned SO much watching your talented and sweet self stir up my newest obsession….stirring up oils with lye…..voila! SOAP. Even the fails have been great learning and I have related to the stress of situations!
I love making soap with lard, I am waiting for the opportunity to try tallow next. My first time soaping with Lard it did take a while to trace which gave me the opportunity to try swirling for the first time. They are my favorite bars so far. Thank you for all your efforts in bringing us these wonderful soaping recipes and additive ideas. I appreciate you!!
I love rendering and cleaning bacon drippings. My grandmother taught me how to make soap from rendered down lard. She also gave me my great-great grandmother's receipe for making lard soap and how to make lye. Also not sure if you use Candle Science but they are having a 50% off their 1 once fragrance oils.
My family used to make lard soap. I was too young to help, but I did make it when I grew up. I loved it! I decided to start again, so my first batch was with lard. Ironically, the first shaping video I watched was yours! Lol! I had no idea we could have pretty soap until I saw your video! Lol😂
Hello Elen! Thanks for that amazing recipe! You can also make potassium soap with that lard. Potassium hydroxide is used and neem oil is added. No color, no fragrance. Once the paste is ready, it is diluted and used as a natural insecticide and fungicide on plants. Big results! Greetings from Guatemala!😊
I made a soap with 35%lamb tallow (home rendered) It had a lamb-smell all along, until after soaponification and cure for a few weeks. I used a fragrance called Cracklin Birch 3%. The recipe had 20% coconut, 15% palmbutter(palmkerneloil), 10% shea, 5% castor and 15% oliveoil (due to the high prices) I also added all of the extras ERS-style 🙂 It is now one of my go to soaps at home. Lovely addictive smell and great feel.
I actually made 2 different recipes yesterday, 1 with Tallow and the other with Lard. Lol, while soaping I binge watch your older videos 😊 You are such a a wonderful inspiration Ellen. I just got my "tall triple skinny" mold the other day. Beautiful soaps, thank you for sharing! ❤ Many blessings.
I love using lard and tallow ! It's the best kind i make! It's always moisturizing and creamy! These swirls are lovely ❤ well, u always make gorgeous soap Ellen! Great to see another video
Where did I miss that you had closed your shop? I have checked every few days. I just assumed you were taking a long break after the Christmas season. I am so bummed but it's good to see you have continued as a hobby.
I make all my soap with lard or tallow. Lard slows trace; tallow goes a little faster, but it makes a good, hard soap without the need for palm. My lard soap is always super white. I wonder if the residual sugars from the bacon are scorching just a little bit and making the soap yellow. I use as much CO as lard, and I get great lather.
Hello Soap Queen, this is such a beautiful soap, those swirls are amazing. The colors are beautiful. Even the yellowish looks pretty. Next we have to try using titanium to make it whiter. Just live it. Going to try it. Thanks for sharing.
That is so wild I just made a men soap with the same color from bescented. Also a bluish green color too. Definitely going to have to try the bourbon fragrance oil. Beautiful swirls as always 😊
It was my first time to use lard last week. I used 10% cocoa butter, 20% coconut oil, 5% castor oil, 25% lard (pig tallow), 10% mango butter, 20% olive oil, and 10% shea and like your batter, it took a while to trace. If I had used beef tallow, it would trace really fast 😅 I didn't color mine and I like how yours turned out! I always look forward to the swirls in your bars, they're always mesmerizing to look at 😍
Lard slow trace Ellen and is amazing so I will say the lather will increase with time. I have customers that request 100%lard soaps and swears by. I rendered myself straight from the butcher in town.
I’ve used both Lard and Beef Tallow for cost effectiveness, but have learned animal fats are amazing for skin. There is a meat smell in the beginning, but that goes away after curing.
I was wondering what happened to your shop. Just started wet shaving and was looking for a good shave soap when I found you. Looks like I missed out, but I still love watching your videos and I love your laugh and your good spirit.
I’m a new soaper and have only used lard with coconut oil so far. Loving it! I actually would like to use a bacon scent several of my male friends would like it….make a coffee and bacon soap would be great lol
I love watching your videos. I am a massage therapist and esthetician and just started selling my soaps at my salon. Do you have any advice on running a soap business and being successful?
@@EllenRuthSoap Thanks for the fast response. I am actually looking for the best fragrance company. Because I have bought a number of them and they are all not nice as the commercial soap scent.
Hello Ms. Ellen. I love those awesome colors!! You're right about the work to render the bacon fat. I did it awhile ago. Took a long time. But soaps came out beautiful. I have a question: where did you buy the container with those scoops? The teal color is my granddaughters favorite color. Haven't been successful in finding them.
I love this soap. Tallow is so underrated! My husband is a hunter and i just rendered a fair amount of deer tallow. It's quite different than other animal tallows though (very waxy). Would you use the same recipe replacing the bacon fat for deer fat or would you do something different? Also, would you use the deer tallow the same way you do in your beef tallow lotion recipe?
If you replace any oils in soap, you'll need to run the numbers thru soap calc, but they do have deer tallow as an option: soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp
I use lard in half of my soaps but like everything else for soap making I can't find an affordable bucket of lard. May I ask where you purchased your bucket from, can purchase single items from the place, and is shipping affordable?
I am interested in using whale and/or seal oil in soaps. They are liquid at room temp. Does anyone have any ideas on recipes. I am very encouraged by the no bacon smell, gives me hope that I will not smell like whale 😂
This is not a soap comment. Do you like your scale? I recently bought a WeighMax scale, and the weight jumps all over the place and is not accurate. I am returning it. So, I need a new scale. Before I buy one, I was wondering how you like yours. Thank you!!!
@@VeronicaMontes-zn6pc Yes, CP soap is fully saponified and the correct pH after about 72 hours, so it's safe to do a lather test. I still give my soaps a full cure of 4-6 weeks after that.
