How to make easy homestead soap for beginners using tallow 🧼 (start to finish, with recipe)

In this video, I'll show you how to make a beginner soap using beef tallow (or lard). This will be a start-to-finish cold-process soapmaking tutorial.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Supplies and ingredients
08:06 - Lye solution
12:47 - Making the soap
21:18 - Cutting the soap
26:39 - After curing

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Soap recipe for total batch size of 44oz:
Lye: 4.28oz
Water: 9.6oz
35% tallow: 10.5oz
35% olive oil: 10.5oz
30% coconut oil: 9.0oz

If you need to recalculate batch size or oil proportions, use a lye calculator to figure out how much lye you need.
Lye calculator: https://www.brambleberry.com/c....alculator?calcType=l

SUPPLIES:
Soap mold and cutters: https://amzn.to/3nODRGl
Lye: https://amzn.to/3NTNLkq
Laser thermometer: https://amzn.to/3nNuarK
Immersion blender
Digital food scale
Glass or #2 or #5 plastic containers (recycled or thrift stores are great)

Video where I rendered the beef tallow: https://youtu.be/Erw3g6oVwB0


MUSIC:
Mr. Chase - Midnight Oil (feat. Cere) - https://thmatc.co/?l=0602C271
Damien Sebe - Soft Cloud - https://thmatc.co/?l=4A1BDB51
ZARG - take off - https://thmatc.co/?l=2D2EFD84
Damien Sebe - Care Package - https://thmatc.co/?l=27ADCA8F

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