Teach Soap

I was buying EVOO in the supermarket when I came across a cheap brand of shortening. I took a close look at the ingredients and sure enough it is a mix of tallow and various veg oils, which probably means cottonseed in practice. I wouldn't want to cook food with this, but it's well known that tallow makes an incredibly conditioning soap with great lather, so I guesstimated a tallow/cottonseed combination, and tried it at 20% of the recipe instead of my usual veg-based hard fat.

The soap looks darker in the uncoloured parts, which is unfortunate, but even with a cut-off chunk 2 days old, the lather is wonderful; it has a "cushion" effect to it. The recipe is something like 30% coco, 7.5% EVAO, 7.5% class A Shea, 30% EVOO, 20% tallow/??, 5% Sunflower HO.

Walmart has their own brand of tallow based shortening (Great Value) and the SAP value is listed on soapcalc.net. Maybe you could use this value?
I've used this several times and it it makes an excellent bar of soap.

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Linda
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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Way cool, thanks a million for the info. I'll feed that into soapcalc - hadn't spotted it!
The most recent batch is hardening up quite quickly despite the OO content. The cost of the shortening is $2/kilo.