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Oats & Honey Tallow Soap

This recipe uses simple ingredients to create a bar of soap your whole family will love. Gentle on even the most sensitive skin.
Prep Time10 minutes
Active Time1 hour 30 minutes
Resting Time1 day
Total Time1 day 1 hour 40 minutes
Keyword: cold process tallow soap recipe, oats and honey cold process soap, oats and honey tallow soap, simple oats and honey soap recipe, simple tallow soap recipe, tallow soap bar
Yield: 12 4 oz bars

Equipment

  • immersion blender
  • Digital kitchen scale
  • Thermometer candy, or infrared
  • Stainless steel bowls or pots
  • Heat proof glass
  • rubber or nitrile gloves
  • Eye goggles or glasses
  • stainless steel whisk
  • Cavity silicone mold

Materials

Fats/Oils

  • 510 g Avocado oil
  • 191 g Castor oil
  • 191 g Coconut oil
  • 383 g Tallow from grass fed beef

Lye Solution

  • 273 g distilled water
  • 167 g lye NaOH

Add In's

  • 2 tbsp colloidal oats
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 28 g essential oils optional

Instructions

  • Before you begin make sure you can work distraction free for at least two hours. No kids or pets running around when you are making soap! Make sure your work area is clean. Tie back you hair and don your safety gear.
  • Place silicone cavity mold onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and set aside.

Weigh out ingredients

  • In separate bowls, weigh out all of the ingredients starting with the fats/oils, then the water in a stainless steel bowl or heat proof glass, and lastly the lye.

Make lye solution

  • Carefully pour lye into the water, never the other way around. Snow falls on the lake.
  • Stir with a stainless steel spoon or whisk until all the lye has dissolved. Do not inhale the fumes produced at this time.
  • Set aside to cool.

Mix & Melt oils

  • In a stainless steel bowl or pot, combine all oils. Melt over medium low heat, stirring occasionally until all the fat has melted. Remove from heat.

Make Soap Batter

  • Check the temperature of the oils and the lye solution. If they are under 140F and within ten degrees of each other proceed to making the soap batter. If they are still too hot, allow to cool for a few more minutes.
  • Pouring over the shaft of your immersion blender, add lye solution to oils/fats. Burp the immersion blender to remove any air bubbles trapped underneath the bell.
  • Pulse for 20-30 seconds then stir. Repeat until the soap batter reaches a thin trace, the consistency of gravy.

Mix In Add In's

  • Set the immersion blender aside. Whisk in honey, oats, and essential oils if using.
  • When fully combined, pour soap batter into the prepared mold. Set the molded soap somewhere well out of the way to saponify for the next 24 hours.

Cure The Soap

  • After 24 hours, remove the soap from the mold and set in a well ventilated area to cure for the next 4-6 weeks before use.

Notes

See post for instructions to make your own colloidal oats. 
This recipe can be halved if you wish to make a smaller batch at one time. 
When working with lots of saturated fats, the soaps tend to thicken a lot faster. Do not overmix, once you can see the soap batter beginning to thicken switch over to your whisk and add in the oats, honey and essential oils if using.