Today I am rendering lard from a pig we had butchered this summer. I plan to create a new soap recipe to use this lard. Lard lye soap making isn't any different than using vegetable oils in your soap. One of my first successful batches of soap used lard. I chose not to use lard in my soap (that I was selling) at that time, not because I didn't like the soap, but because there seemed to be such an emphasis (demand) for vegetable oil only soaps. So I ditched the lard and chose vegetable oils.
Today, I think sustainable agriculture is important and I am going more with my beliefs than following the current trend (although the current trend in this area is that more and more people are desiring to buy more and more products locally from small producers). This entire past has been a year of growth and learning. I brought home 14 chickens last October. I already knew we were going to pursue getting sheep and goats, but we spent the winter learning all we could. By spring, we purchased a small flock of sheep, 2 goats, and 3 turkeys. Then we hatched out two batches of chickens from our own chickens' eggs and raised more layers and meat birds we purchased from a hatchery. In August we got three baby feeder pigs. We acquired three horses that are being boarded at a neighbor's place. We added a puppy in February and so.......... our little farm is growing. So you might be wondering how all of this ties in with sustainable agriculture. Well.....doing as much as you can for yourself and making the most of everything you have is an important aspect. This winter, I will be rendering more lard from the three pigs we have raised and making more soap. Doesn't it make sense to use everything we have rather than going out and buying a lot of other supplies?
So....if you raise your own pigs....use that extra fat for soap. If you don't raise pigs.....why not work with a farmer in your area who does raise pigs. Most of the time people who have pigs butchered do not want the extra fat......maybe you could get and use it? Why not try asking a few meat processors what they do with the fat that no one requests? You might be pleasantly suprised. You may be able to get it for nothing or barter a trade for some fat. This is better than allowing the fat to go to waste.
I found my first batch of lard lye soap to be a very hard, long-lasting, mild bar of soap. I can't wait to see how this recipe will turn out. I'll post the recipe once I have iti figured out.
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Hey Cherie-
This is Drenna. You sound very busy and bursting with life with all the animals and kids. I will be interested to see how your pig lard soap turns out. Does is small animally???
Love to you all.
I made my first batch of soap I purchased 2 pans I was told they were both stainless steel, but when I mixed the lye and water together it boiled (a lot) I finished the soap this was two weeks ago. But I have since found out the pan I had the lye and water in was club aluminum, the pan I had the oil in was stainless steel. I am concerned should I throw out the batch, could the lye have leached out aluminum the soap has one more week. I have asked everyone I know and no one is sure. I would appreciate any help
I have not had any experience with using an aluminum pan, so I'm afraid I can't give you an official answer. But let me ask you this.....does your club aluminum pan look damaged from the lye? If so, then I personally wouldn't use or sell the soap. If not, then that is a harder question, but again, to be safe, I probably wouldn't use it. I am pretty picky about what my family eats the chemicals we have in the house, so there are others who may not care. It is definitely not normal for the lye and water to boil, but then again I am wondering if you had ice in your water before you mixed the lye, or if you had your pan in a water bath? Have you watched my video tutorial on making soap? I noramlly mix lye in pyrex tempered glass. Hope that helps.
This is my on-line or DVD Video Soap Making Tutorial. Watch me make soap in my own kitchen. You will be able to reproduce my soap exactly!
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