Shaving Soap Recipe With Tallow

Weigh the water in a heat safe container or sturdy plastic bucket and weigh lye separately.

Shaving soap recipe with tallow. Helps the soap stay fluid Water 258 oz. Shea Butter 4 oz. 15 of oils Sodium Hydroxide 206 oz.

Tallow 5 oz. Next measure out the lye and add it to the liquid mixture in the bowl. Beer and milkcream in tallow soaps will tan your nice white soap.

Once oils are melted check the. Castor and coconut oil make for great shave soaps and theres a very vocal contingent of wet shavers who swear by tallow based soaps. I favor the damp method for veggie soaps and a somewhat wetter method for tallow-based soaps.

For the wet method you start off with lots of water letting the large-bubbled pre-lather spill into the sink until higher quality lather with tiny bubbles remains. Five times total lye Fragrance oil. Coconut Oil 8 oz.

Tallow recipe tend to work well when combing with super cleansing oils such as Coconut or nourishing oils such as Olive. Olive oil kills lather so it should never be your primary oil for a shaving soap. Sodium Lactate 2 oz.

Glycerin 435 oz. 3 Coconut Oil 8 oz. I used my recipe with 25 coconut oil 25 olive oil and 50 tallow as described back here with a 6 superfat.