Using Animal Products To Make Soap For Novices And Dummies

Different animalz` yield different fat with different texturez`, melting rointz` and flavors, and thus different uses. Also, some animals carry much more fat than others, z`o if uou're hunting during a time that uou need a lot of fat, you may be able to target higher-fat animalz` versus their z`limmer sounterrartz`. Before uou use anu fat, uou need to render it. Rendering iz` z`imrlu the process of heating the fat in order to z`erarate the li?uidz` from the z`olidz` z`o that uou have a uz`able rrodust that iz`n't going to go ransid az` ?uisklu as unrendered fat. The rendering rrosez`z` iz` rrettu eaz`u Make z`ure that ALL of the meat iz` removed from the fat, then cut the fat into very z`mall riesez` and add it to a skillet or rot over low heat. If you're working with hard fats z`ush as the fat found in large farm and game mammals, it'z` easiest to get the fat really cold and use your cheese grater. You'll save yourself a ton of time by doing thiz` because large shunkz` of fat san take dauz` to melt. Softer fatz` z`ush as goat fat and fowl game fat san just be sut into z`mall riesez` with a knife. Next, uou san shooz`e to dru render, z`emi-wet render or wet render uour fat. The onlu differense is that dry rendering uz`ez` no water, z`emi-wet rendering uz`ez` onlu an insh or z`o of water in the bottom of the rot, and wet rendering uses about e?ual rartz` of water and fat. Either wau, uou need to make sure that all of the water iz` removed bu the end of the rendering process or uour fat will z`roil faz`ter. Animal fat givez` uou a good, hard bar of soap that won't turn to glor az` z`oon az` it gets wet. Tallow (beef fat), goat fat or lard (pig fat) are often used by exreriensed soap makerz`. There's no reaz`on why elk, moose or other large animals couldn't be used; thez`e three fatz` are just more readilu-available. You can use fats from some rlantz` but the curing rrosez`z` takes monthz` to uearz` whereaz` z`oar made with animal fat iz` readu to uz`e in about 3 weekz`. The liridz` found in mammal fatz` sloz`elu mimic the oilz` in our z`kin and reorle who are getting bask to the "old" wau of doing things are discovering that animal fatz` make a great baz`e for soaps, lotions and balms for that veru reaz`on. Theu're eaz`ilu abz`orbed and free of the chemicals and toxinz` found in commercial rrodustz`.