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Anybody here make soap?
I picked up some melt-and-pour supplies last summer, and spent some time today, playing around with molds and fragrances.
I'm going to a workshop on Cold Process soap next Saturday, with a friend, to learn how to make it from scratch. Picked up 25 pounds of beef fat - free! - from the neighbours who just had a couple of cattle butchered. (I did an emergency midwife thing for one of their goats, a couple of weeks ago. Head back, one big doeling)
So, the plan is to start making goat's milk soap. 
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Great! Soap making is on my long list of things to learn. There's a great looking kit from Lehman's that I've had my eye on once things calm down around here enough that I can actually go back to my hobbies.
Let us know how the workshop goes! I bet it's really easy to make, just takes the know-how. And good for you on the trade there! It's always nice to be able to do something like that.
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I think I would have got it for nothing anyway - these people are always giving us things. Any excess out of their garden is ours for the picking. I'm just happy to be able to do something in return - I also work for them during haying season. I get paid in hay instead of cash - works for me!
Good friends, good neighbours - actually, we have a lot of good neighbours around us. No bad neighbours - at least none that we've met, so far!
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pookshollow wrote:
Good friends, good neighbours - actually, we have a lot of good neighbours around us. No bad neighbours - at least none that we've met, so far!
Lucky you!!! I have some pretty ornery neighbors. Things are pretty smooth now...but things could go south any ol' time!
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It is on my list of things I want to do (specifically on the list titled "why I need a utility sink in the oversized laundry/storage room"  )
I've looked into it a bit, but I was looking at vegatable oil ones... animal fat is harder to come by where I am. It didn't look like any part of it was too difficult. Just you had to be careful and precise and take your time to get the mix just right.
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Oh, I'm sure I could do it without the workshop, but it gives me an excuse to buy lots of neat supplies (molds, essential oils, etc ). I've been reading up on it for ages now.
I want to try both animal fat and all vegetable soaps. If I get into it in a big way, so that I can start selling it, I'll probably go the 100% vegetable route - just because I think it will sell better.
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I imagine it would sell better. All the folks that sell soap at the farmers market here (I think 4 of them) are all vegetable fats. I think it's just easier to appease us weirdo vegetarians that way! 
My husband does eat meat - more specifically bacon. We have the old fashioned "grease jar" but just use it because it's easier to throw away a jar of grease than do anything else with it. I've pondered rendering it and making soap, but haven't quite gotten the gumption up to do it.
Oh, speaking of which though. I have some of my great grandmother's old kitchen stuff. Just this weekend I was digging around in the garage and found her actual grease jar. It's a spun aluminum jar, maybe about a quart or so with a nice tight fitting lid. It has GREASE imprinted on the outside. Might be kinda fun to use that if we are going to keep the stuff for making soap...I'm sure my husband won't be upset by having to increase his bacon consumption to fill the jar up!
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Mmmmm, bacon. We recently got a half a pig from a fellow goat breeder, so milk-fed. Best bacon I've had in years!
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I would love to make my own soap, but there just is not enough room here.
I have some homemade soaps that a friend sent to me that are simply divine. A lot of them with Patchouli in them (my most favorite scent). He sent me a box full about a year and a half ago, and I still have almost a half a box left. If I'm not mistaken, it's goat milk soap. Leaves my skin feeling soooo good!!!
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haven't made any yet but want to make some goats milk soap now that we have a doe in milk
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