r/soapmaking • u/Faith_and_fear • 4d ago

Recipe Advice Tallow soap without coconut

Can anybody recommend a cold process recipe for a tallow soap without coconut? Would also like to avoid palm and babassu, for a suspected skin allergy to the whole nutty family :) thanks!

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u/tomahnaa 3d ago

Why not try a 100% tallow soap?

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u/brbgottagofast 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'd do 65% tallow, 20% lard, 10% olive/avocado/HO sunflower/RBO, 5% castor. Dissolve 1-2 tbsp sugar PPO in your water to boost the bubbles.

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u/cicamaus 3d ago

55% tallow, 35%oliveoil, 10% castor oil. Use 1% sugar in lye. But also pure tallow or 90% tallow and 10%castor will make a really nice soap. But be aware that tallow makes a really hard soap if you use a block mold, don't cut it too late it gets rock hard very quick

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u/Extension_Skirt7764 3d ago

I just do mine based on the 32oz bottles of lye I use:
Half batch: 16oz NaOH / 119.9oz tallow / 45.6oz water
Quarter batch: 8oz NaOH / 60oz tallow / 22.8oz water

Beef tallow, single oil. Combine sub-105°F but above 100°F

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u/Gullible-Pilot-3994 1d ago

65% tallow, 30% high oleic sunflower, 5% castor and sugar in the water before adding lye.

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u/Kamahido 6h ago

If skin allergies are an issue then I would suggest a 100% Beef Tallow recipe.

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u/Icarus-SoapCo 3d ago

Try doing a 1:1 swap of rice bran oil for the coconut. Once saponified, the rice bran has a bar identical hardness to coconut