Tallow Shampoo Bars
Cold-process shampoo bars
Equipment
- 1 digital temperature gun
- 1 Immersion Blender
Ingredients
- 10 oz. tallow grass fed
- 10 oz. coconut oil
- 10 oz. olive oil
- 6 oz castor oil
- 5.11 oz. lye
- 13.68 oz. water
- 2 oz essential oil
Instructions
- Weigh the water in a heat-safe container.
- weigh the lye separately.
- In a well vented room or outdoors, wearing gloves and safety goggles, carefully and slowly pour the lye into the water. Stir gently.
- Once the lye water has turned from cloudy to clear, leave it to cool until the temperature is 100 degrees.
- Weigh tallow and coconut oil out and put into a pot to melt. Then add the olive oil and the castor oil. Check the temperature of the oils. You want it to be 100 degrees F. Let cool if necessary.
- Carefully pour the lye water into the oil mixture
- Use an immersion blender to mix the soap. After a few minutes, it will get creamy, and start to thicken. Mix until it has reached trace, the light pudding consistency.
- Add the essential oils and blend again to incorporate.
- Pour soap into molds, top with cardboard or wax paper, and wrap molds in towels.
- After 24 hours, remove soap from the mold. Let cure in an area with good airflow for 4 weeks.
Notes
To help keep fumes down place your lye water container in a metal bowl of ice.