Basic Soap Recipe With Lard
I really like this recipe because it is simple and it has always worked out great.
Basic soap recipe with lard. Lard 180 gr. 120 grams coconut oil. Honey in any soap naturally benefits skin thanks to its antibacterial properties that can also brighten up a dull complexion. I heated the lye and lard to 120 f and poured the lye into the lard.
5 oz 142g ice cold distilled water. 25 to 45 lathering hard oils. Pour the 40 40 20 recipe into prepared soap molds. Weigh oils into a separate container one at a time before pouring each into the crockpot.
This soap recipe is so simple that it only requires four main ingredients including a goat s milk melt and pour base raw honey soap colorant and fragrance. Lard set aside 1 ounce to add at end of cook as superfat. Meanwhile weigh lye into a lye safe container. It came to trace after about an hour of stirring with a wooden spoon and i poured it into the mold.
Mistakes happen and numbers may be switched when recipes are transcribed. 85 grams lye sodium hydroxide 228 grams distilled water. Set crockpot on low heat. 16 oz 454g lard.
Simple starter soap with lard. Always input figures into a trusted soap lye calculator before beginning any recipe. 5 to 10 luxury soft oils. Choose from 1 of the 5 lard soap recipes lard and coconut.
These lard recipes have been designed so they can be made in your kitchen with easy to find and common ingredients. Basic lard soap recipe. Olive oil 450 gr. It makes a wonderfully hard bar that lasts a very long time and i can add whatever kinds of lovely extras to it like essential oils flowers or exfoliators like ground oats or coffee grains.
2 oz 57g lye crystals. Basic soap recipe sounds so boring but this is my go to recipe. Set aside one ounce of the lard to use as superfat after the cook. 15 to 30 conditioning hard oils.
It will have a slight fatty smell so you might want to add essential oils. Right now after 4 days of sitting it s still about as soft as the filling of a pumpkin pie but it is beginning to pull away from the sides of the mold. Check first and be safe to avoid lye heavy soap. 480 grams lard.
Whether you use lard from your grocery store or sourced from a local farm the process for mixing it with lye to create your own soap is the same. Coconut oil 225 gr. Lard soap is a traditional favorite because it makes for hard long lasting bar of soap that cleans well and won t dry out the skin. Pour soap made with 100 percent lard into heat proof containers that can also be used in the bathroom.
Fats oils and butters. A brilliant white soap with large creamy bubbles. 20 to 30 nourishing soft oils. Hard oils are solid or semi solid at room temperature.
Castor oil 45 gr. If using cold process methods allow the soap to gel in a safe out of the way place until the lye dissipates. This basic soap recipe like the one above is also a great one for those who are new to soap making. For a most charming milk and honey soap use a honeycomb mold.
For the rest of the oils cover and allow to melt completely. 5 to 10 castor oil. If you want to give it a go formulating your own soap recipe try this basic soap formula builder. Hot process lard soap recipe.