Skills for a hunter or homesteader - making soap from animal fat
1. Melt your fat.
2. Mix the Water and Sodium Hydroxide together.
3. Leave both products to stand for approximately 30-40 minutes until they both reach around 38-43 degrees Celsius.
4. Combine the fat with the Sodium Hydroxide solution and immersion blend until the consistency of thin custard.
5. Add your essential oil and continue to immersion blend until the consistency is thick custard.
6. Pour into a prepared soap mould or container.
7. Rest for 24 hours in the mould, turn out and cut into desired soap shapes (cutting 24 hours later makes the cutting process easier and cleaner).
8. Leave your soaps for 4-6 weeks in an airy location prior to use. A baking rack is useful for this, or on a flat surface you can just turn them daily.
CAUTION
Ensure you wear gloves, long sleeves and an apron and if sensitive to smells wear a mask. When mixing the Sodium Hydroxide with the water, it can slash and the splashes cause a mild burn and itching sensation. Take care around pets and children and never stand over the mixing process as it produces fumes that are very potent. it produces fumes that are very potent.
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Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) is a base not a acid.
As it's exothermic it may harm if you add water over soda because it's try to boil. So always add caustic soda in small amounts in the water, it will warm up the water and no harm is going to happen. Stay safe.
1 tsp sugar per pound of fat will increase lather. Excellent video!
Caustic soda into water!!!!! Not water into caustic soda!!!!!!
@melodyivers
Жыл бұрын
I came here to say just that!!!!!
@melodyivers
Жыл бұрын
Well, that and the lye water is basic not acidic.
@pana738
Жыл бұрын
@@melodyivers she kept saying acid and I was like huhhh 🤣🤣
What are the exact measurements?
NEVER pour the water into the Lye, always add the lye to the water.
@Jacob-sj5nn
Жыл бұрын
Why?
@pintresting4367
Жыл бұрын
@@Jacob-sj5nn adding any strong base or acid to water can cause an exothermic reaction. Lye in particular can produce heat upwards of 200 degrees. It also gives off caustic gas. If you add the water to the lye, it is instantly concentrated and can splatter and cause server burns (some chemicals will explode). By adding the lye to the water, it is instantly diluted.
Great video, thanks
Caustic soda is not an acid 🤣🤦♀️ NaOH is a strong base
Wow like the measurements
human fat is the best from what i heard
@rogermiller9048
Жыл бұрын
Try it and let us know.
@Arun-qu5ty
Жыл бұрын
the 1st rule of fight club is
@HellsHatersEnt
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeffery
A good job
Thanks for the video, well done. Can I ask you how you use this particular soap - dishwashing? clothes washing? bathroom soap? Thanks
Coconut oil to help the lather if you want.
A very informative video indeed👌 Can you make a video where you actually use the soap? I think that would be more interesting.
What book were you using to guide yourself?
Using metal spoon could be making smoke cuz lye reacts with metal
@Swell_Vibrations
Жыл бұрын
Lye reacts with aluminum, she’s using a stainless steel spoon which is inert with lye. Also it should be worth mentioning that one should never pour water into lye. It could cause the lye to pop and sputter because it is an exothermic reaction which could cause liquid and lye to fly outta the bowl and land on you.
Adding Sodium hydroxide(NaOH) with water separates it into ion Na+(aq) and OH-(aq) any solution or compound with Hydroxide (OH-) is a base, if you test it with litmus paper it will turn blue
Wood ash would do the same thing just hardwood ash.
@buttonvalley
8 ай бұрын
The lye leeched from wood ashes is potassium carbonate, not sodium hydroxide. Wood ash lye makes a soft soap that doesn't harden enough to cut into bars.
what are your measurements? there is nothing in your description box
No salt added? How long should I mix? 30 sec?
@thewilderlifer9910
Жыл бұрын
It's less about how long and more about just doing it until the mix looks right.
I’m jealous of that cutting board!
@thewilderlifer9910
2 жыл бұрын
It's 100% awesome. My brother made it for me!
@DESIBOY-fe7nm
11 ай бұрын
Welcome to the club.!!
im neither a hunter nor a homesteader, i just dont wanna be smelly after the apocalypse. Maybe make another video where youre making lye from wood ashes, since you were using the store bought stuff in this video.
Make sure to follow the recipe. What recipe?
When I added the Sodium hydroxide water solution to the rendered fat immediately it turned into thick slush :(
@michelebolton4615
9 ай бұрын
After that, you have to mix it with a stick blender until it turns thick, like pudding.
And safety glasses too please 🙏......... caustic soda is nasty shit !
She almost gave me another heart attack adding water to citric acid. 😮
Big NO, NO. never add water to lye, especially as you were not using protective eye wear.
Just to say I've been soap making For a while sweetie just gotta put a pair of goggles on protect the eyes as well it's important you never know about A splash
But it will have animal fat in bad smell How I can red the smell
@thewilderlifer9910
Жыл бұрын
It smells a little bit like the fat but that doesn't bother us. It mostly smells like the oil you put in later.
Always Acid to water nevere ever add water to acid ,,to remumber A to W
Poor cat!