100% Tallow soap Lavender - oval

100% tallow soap - with Lavender essential oil

$6.00
 
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A soap for purists: 100% tallow (The fat came from a farm here in the Marlborough Sounds and was rendered by us - we do render all our tallow ourselves).

I put a lot of care into the recipe - because normally 100% tallow soaps don't lather very well, I added some sugar and citric acid, which helps to get more lather and also decided to use the dual lye method. I used mainly the usual sodium hydroxide (NaOh - lye), but added a part of potassium hydroxide (KOH - lye) as well. This is usually used for liquid soaps, but has the advantage here of producing a bit more lather than a 100% NaOh soap usually would.


The colour comes from Purple Brazilian Clay - all natural.

Please be aware that natural colours do fade after a while, so might not look quite the same as on the photo.

Watch a video of how 100% tallow soap lathers here:
https://youtu.be/yXFi5DiJnWs

Soap ingredients:

Saponified fats: 100% Tallow. Water, Glycerine*, Essential Oil, Brazilian Purple Clay, Citric Acid, Sugar

Essential Oil: Lavender

*Please note that I don't put any extra glycerine into the soap - this is just the glycerine that is created naturally during the soap making process.
According to NZ labelling rules the final ingredients of a product have to be listed


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