November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Making Soap on the Homestead with Home Grown Flowers


#SoapMaking #Homesteading #TallowSoap #HomeMadeSoap

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I have been working on making this soap for over a year. I sowed the calendula seeds in April 2020 and cared for those plants through harvest. I also rendered the tallow down last summer. Today we make the tallow orange calendula soap! I couldn’t be happier with the results!

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24 thoughts on “VIDEO: Making Soap on the Homestead with Home Grown Flowers

  1. I recently started at the beginning of your YouTube journey and Iโ€™m sooooo hooked! Iโ€™ve been binge watching and just trying to catch up to the newest vids, next Iโ€™ll be going on Instagram to see those videos as well. Keep up the great work, Iโ€™ve learned soooooo much from your channel!!

  2. Your soap turned out lovely! I actually have a small soap business in addition to my YT channel with quite a few videos on different soaps I make. With your eczema you might want to consider using frozen goats milk in place of water! It has helped many of my customers tremendously. And thank you as always for your motivation and inspiration!

  3. Randomly found your channel through garden vlogs and enjoying the content. This is a good basic video but one comment I want to add is its best to never make soap in an item you will eat food out of later. Food/soap utensils should be kept separate just in case some lye is left over. Eating it on accident would be horrible! Lye is caustic and will burn away your skin/throat linings.

  4. The inside of this soap looks AMAZING, and I was waiting for you to add some flowers to the molds before your poured the soap in or set a few in on top of the mold as well as the "internal" ones. Did not expect the inside to look so pretty.

  5. Iโ€™ve never made soap, nor seen it made until now. I like goat milk soap and sometimes buy it from a local lady that makes it to sell. It is so good. Yours looks very pretty and I have no doubt it smells and works great too. Thank you for sharing!

  6. Just found your channel and am binging… If you decide to try goat milk soap and ever get up to Seattle, give a shout and I will hook you up with some fresh goats milk from our girls:)

  7. It was fun watching you make a tallow soap, something I haven't done, but I have made practically ever other soap you can ๐Ÿ™‚ I just wanted to suggest a way of getting more out of the calendula. I make a tea (quite strong with the petals) and let it go cold (store covered in the fridge) then either use that completely for the water portion to mix with the lye or make the tea from only half the water portion and add to the lye water after the lye water has cooled Then you could also grind some calendula petals into powder as well. Just some ideas. I make goat milk soap with colloidal oatmeal for my grand daughter and that is wonderful. Both the goatmilk and the oatmeal are soothing to inflamed skin. Even just putting some ground oats in muslin and adding it to a bath or hand soak is soothing ๐Ÿ™‚ Hope this was helpful. I am loving your channel !!! ๐Ÿ™‚ p.s. – your soap looked fantastic !! Blessings ~ Linda

  8. Hey Becky ! ! I am not a pro soap maker by a long shot but I love making it. When I can hamburger, I save the fat and render it and make soap. When you go to Goodwill, or any thrift store, look for silicone molds, any shape works and the soap just pops right out. My husband found a couple silicone ones that were mini loaf pans and they make the perfect size bar of soap. LOVE your videos ! ((hugs))

  9. Hi Becky, I made soap for my shop for over 12 years. But unfortunateley I've to tell you, that it's not allowed to continue using the utensils after making soap with them. This is related to the alkali. Greetings from Germany, Melanie

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