{"id":1667,"date":"2019-01-11T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2019-01-01T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:30:04","slug":"yearly-soapmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/yearly-soapmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly soapmaking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1647 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6437-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6437-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6437-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6437-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6437.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My mom bought me 6.5 pounds of tallow from the butcher for $0.88\/lb! Tallow is so cheap (and sometimes free) since it is a byproduct of eating meat; most of the time, it is thrown away. The fat in the little bag to the left was trimmed off of a steak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1648\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1648 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6439-e1546308883622-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6439-e1546308883622-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6439-e1546308883622-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6439-e1546308883622-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6439-e1546308883622.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then you render it, which takes forever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1649\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1649 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6453-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6453-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6453-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6453-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6453.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then you add lye and other goodies, and mix. The soap in this photo is just about done. I&#8217;ve been making hot-process soap using our slow cooker since cold-process can be finicky and requires a lot of mixing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1650\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1650 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6454-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6454-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6454-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6454-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then you pour it into molds. I variously used a muffin tin and plastic drink cups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made four different kinds of soap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tallow-soap.pdf\">pure tallow<\/a>: 6 oz water, 2.2 oz NaOH, 16 oz tallow<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pure-tallow-coconut.pdf\">tallow + coconut oil <\/a>for more cleansing lather: 6 oz water, 2.3 oz NaOH, 13.1 oz tallow, 2.9 oz coconut oil<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tallow-coconut-hair-soap.pdf\">tallow + coconut + a mix of oils<\/a> left over from another project: 6 oz water, 2.3 oz NaOH, 12 oz tallow, 2 oz coconut oil, 2 oz oil mix (coconut and almond oils, beeswax)<\/li>\n<li>shaving soap (<a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shaving-soap-NaOH.pdf\">one batch with NaOH<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shaving-soap-KOH.pdf\">one batch with KOH<\/a>): 12 oz water, 3.4 oz KOH, 2.3 oz NaOH, 4 oz glycerin, 9.6 oz stearic acid, 20.8 oz tallow, 1.6 oz oil mix (coconut and almond oils, beeswax)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To create the shaving soap, I mixed the NaOH and KOH batches together to get a good texture. Stearic acid is too hard to use NaOH only, but not hard enough to use only KOH, which is meant for creating liquid soap. This is called a dual-lye soap.<\/p>\n<p>One batch of attempted soap boiled over and was lost ): I pre-melted the oils and they got too hot, so that when I added the lye-water, it boiled immediately, forming a lye volcano. Fortunately, no one was injured (except the crock pot, whose paint is a little corroded&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Hot-process soap is a little gloopy when it&#8217;s done, so it can be hard to put into molds. You can mix in additional water to improve pourability, but the soap will have to cure longer to reach the desired hardness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1653\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1653 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6457-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6457-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6457-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6457-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6457.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curing. Shaving soap in the back. The two front soaps are hair soap for sibling C, but could also be used for general hand and body cleaning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1651 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6455-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6455-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6455-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6455-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6455.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The greenish one on the right was infused with plant materials from our garden (yaupon, rosemary, sage, and lantana). As it turns out, you need a ton of plant matter to do anything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1652\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1652 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6456-e1546361025801-1024x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6456-e1546361025801-1024x532.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6456-e1546361025801-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6456-e1546361025801-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6456-e1546361025801.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaving soap. The glycerin made it a little orange.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1673\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1673 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6476-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6476-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6476-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6476-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6476.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tallow + coconut oil soap.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made four different kinds of soap: pure tallow: 6 oz water, 2.2 oz NaOH, 16 oz tallow tallow + coconut oil for more cleansing lather: 6 oz water, 2.3 oz NaOH, 13.1 oz tallow, 2.9 oz coconut oil tallow + coconut + a mix of oils left over from another project: 6 oz water, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/yearly-soapmaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yearly soapmaking!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}