100 Percent (organic) Tallow with infused Rhubarb

Recently, I began looking for a new source of organic tallow and found that it’s both harder to come by and more expensive than I had anticipated. Combined with the time and care it takes to render the fat myself — and the work involved in harvesting and drying herbs for the infused soaps — I’ve had to slightly adjust my soap prices.
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This time unfortunately it didn't turn it's usually bright pink colour. Not sure what happened there - might be the essential oil (I used one from a different company this time).

With the beautiful scent of Rose Geranium (essential oil)

A soap for purists: 100% tallow (The fat came from an organic farm here in the Marlborough Sounds and was rendered by us - we do render all our tallow ourselves).
I infused the tallow with rhubarb powder (harvested from rhubarb roots from our garden - they were cleaned and processed, than dehydrated and milled into a fine powder and then infused with the tallow).

I developed a specialised recipe to enhance the lather of this 100% tallow soap.

The biggest surprise with this soap is the colour - from a sort of ochre yellow in the infusion it turns red when I add the lye - these are the things that make you feel like a proper witch behind the cauldron...

Please be aware that natural colours do fade after a while, so might not look as bright and crisp as on the photo. The rhubarb colour also looks more beigy (if that is a word?!) when you start using it.

Just to clarify:
The tallow that I use for the soaps is organic, but it's not officially certified. The farm I get it from used to be certified, but they now planted heaps of native trees on their property (because they are very environmentally conscious). Unfortunately they needed to spray roundup in these places (not on their paddocks, where the animals graze though) and therefore lost their organic certification.
I use tallow from our own sheep as well (which are organically kept - no chemicals involved), but again, we are not certified.

Soap ingredients:
Saponified fats: 100% Organic Tallow (infused with rhubarb powder - organically grown in our garden here in the Kenepuru Sound). Water, Glycerine*, Citric Acid, Sugar, Essential Oil

Essential Oil: Rose Geranium

*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