New Soap Recipes - Mango Apricot and BACON!

I've been on another soap-making frenzy lately! All of these bars were wrapped this past weekend and I made 2 more new batches. Now my friends and family will be clean!

One of the things I have wanted to do was to try to render bacon grease and use it in a recipe. After all, original soaps were made from tallow and lard. I know the soap my Great-Grandmother made was rather harsh and I believe they only used it for laundry. Today with SAP values and soap calculators it's easier to design a soap recipe and know what type of bar will result. I read up on using lard in soaps and quickly realized that it needed some good moisturizing oils to go with it. I designed both of these recipes this past weekend so it will be a couple of months before I can report the results. All of my other soap recipes have been updated with the final use results. App of my recipes are unscented, because that's what I need in a soap but you could add fragrance or color to any of these recipes to customize the bar to your preferences.

If you make any of my soap recipes I would really like to hear about your own experience and whether you liked the end result.

Yum, Bacon! Soap

• 7 ounces rendered bacon grease or lard
• 6 ounces coconut oil
• 7 ounces olive oil
• 4 ounces avocado oil
• 4 ounces palm kernel oil
• 2 ounces shea butter
• 1 ounce stearic acid
• 1 ounce castor oil
• 4.55 ounces lye
• 12.2 ounces distilled water

Makes 32 ounces. This bar is designed to be a good cleansing hard bar with lots of condition oils. I do not expect it to have as much lather as some of the other soaps.

Note: 1/9/10 - This soap turned out really nice. It has a great lather and seems to also be very moisturizing. I'll make this one again.

Mango Apricot Soap

• 8 ounces palm oil
• 7 ounces coconut oil
• 6 ounces olive oil
• 5 ounces palm kernel oil
• 5 ounces mango butter
• 4 ounces apricot kernel oil
• 1 ounces castor oil
• 5.2 ounces lye
• 13.7 ounces distilled water

Makes 36 ounces. This bar should have great lather and be very conditioning.

Comments

[Yvonne]

Thanks for visiting my blog Vicki. I love making soap too. These are great recipes you have. I will try them for sure. Thanks for sharing. YOur fabric is wonderful too BTW. I've been dyeing fabric and doing some batiking lately. Love it all! Hope you visit again.

[sue b]

Bacon soap huh...

[Mary Anne]

Bacon soap? I think I might want to eat it!! Then again, I'd probably want to eat the mango apricot too. That would just give a whole new meaning to frothing at the mouth, wouldn't it?

[Cindy Is Crafty]

Now you need to make a lettuce and tomato soap so I can wash with a BLT! LOL! I crack myself (and digust myself)up!

[Terri]

Hmmmm, I gotta admit, that bacon soap certainly doesn't sound appealing.

[Nancy H]

I can only imagine this advertisement in the pet shop....

"Bacon soap, the only bar to use when your bitch cant find a mate" LOL

[Jackie]

Hmmmm..... Bacon soap not sure whether I want to smell like bacon or just eat it? Interesting.

[Paula Hewitt]

reading the comments about the bacon soap made me laugh - one of my neighbours came over when i was making soap using fat i'd saved from lamb roasts - and she said ' eeww - i dont want to smell like a roast leg of lamb' i had to point out that the finished soap doesn't smell like the meat it came from! although I did see on the telly once some American blokes who made bacon flavoured lip-gloss, so maybe it wouldnt be a bad thing...

[Susan Elliott]

OMG Vicki, is there anything you can't do??? Amazing to me that you're a soap maker too!

[Kathy]

Bacon soap?.....

[beth]

What a riot, Mary Anne!! Food flavored soaps make me hungry, too!

[Sandra]

Gosh, woman...I was going to say, "is there anything you cannot do?" but see Susan beat me to it.
I'm amazed you can still find lye; it's been taken off the shelf around here...dope heads make drugs with it or some such. I can't imagine.
Beautiful soap...makes taking a bath wonderful. I refused to use anything other than hand made soap or, sometimes, body wash but Never that stuff sold in stores as soap; it's really detergent and makes me i-t-c-h!

[leah]

wow - does the soap SMELL like bacon????

you're very productive!

i say, re: the zippers, thats a great pile of zippers! i';m sure you'll find a use for them.

and as for the buying in bulk and of multiple things, crafty things, there are far worse habits, rights?

[Dianah]

Have you thought about selling the soaps in your Etsy store? I love soaps but my husband would kill me if I pick up another hobby. Just a thought!

[Nancy´s Soap Recipes]

I have never made bacon soap (always thought it sounded weird), but now I´m interested. I´m very curious to see how it turned out. Will you let us know?