HERB - Jasmine's one bar soap recipes
Gaylin Walli
g.walli at infoengine.com
Tue Nov 24 09:18:15 PST 1998
Good grief that all sounded terribly short and bitchy to my
own eyes/ears. I apologize if anyone was offended. I'm in the
middle of one of those huge "hurry up and wait" projects that
has too many vice president fingers in the pie. My most abject
apologies for being so quick at the send key.
jasmine
>Chris wrote:
>
>>Where did you get your oils for making these. Some do not seem to be off the
>>shelf shopping mart types.
>
>Sure they are, with the exception of pure tallow. Tallow is just rendered
>beef fat and most meat markets will give you this fat for free or very
>cheaply. Lard is simply rendered pork fat and is available in rendered
>form in every grocery store I've ever been in.
>
>Canola, olive, safflower/sunflower, and peanut oil are also available
>in every grocery store I've ever been in. I did mention in a previous
>note that a few were obtained in my local health food store. These were
>the coconut and palm oils I use. Coconut is usually available in health
>food or middle eastern and asian grocery stores. Palm oil is obtained
>in my local health food store.
>
>As for sodium hydroxide, try you local small town supermarket and
>look for a can in the drain cleaner aisle that says "Red Devil Lye"
>on it. You don't want regular drain cleaner, just straight lye (things
>like Draino have other stuff in them). If you can't find this in
>your local grocery store, try you local small town *hardware* or
>plumbing supply store. Again, look for Red Devil. Barring that, I've
>been told that many chemical supply stores exist in larger cites.
>I've never really looked into buying from them, however, as I don't
>really need 50# bags of lye. :)
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