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Lard Soap Recipe with Extra Bubbles

5 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 2 hours
Servings 12 bars

Equipment

  • 1 Immersion Blender
  • 1 Digital Scale
  • 1 Digital Thermometer
  • 1 Soap Mold
  • 1 Sharp Knife or Soap Cutter
  • 1 Rubber Spatula or Spoons
  • 1 Cardboard

Ingredients
  

  • 30 oz Lard
  • 3 oz Coconut Oil
  • 2 oz Castor Oil
  • 10.63 oz Filtered Water
  • 4.75 oz Sodium Hydroxide (lye)
  • 2 oz Fragrance or Essential Oil Optional

Instructions
 

  • Melt the lard, coconut oil, and castor oil in a medium saucepan. At the same time, measure the filtered water and the sodium hydroxide.
    Wearing protective gear, pour the sodium hydroxide over the water. Slowly stir and set aside to cool.
    Once the fats and oils are melted, set the saucepan aside to cool along with the lye.
    Once the lye and the fats are cooled to approximately 115 degrees or within ten degrees of each other, you can then mix them together.
    Slowly pour the lye into the fats. Using the immersion blender, mix the ingredients together. The soap batter will begin to lighten in color and thicken. You are looking for a thin trace. When you reach a thin trace, add the fragrance or color if you are using that.
    Once you have reached trace, you can pour the batter into a mold.
    Spray with 99% isopropyl alcohol to prevent soda ash from forming.
    Let sit in the mold for 24 hours. After 24 hours you can remove the soap from the mold and cut it into bars.
    Lastly, let the bars cure for 3-4 weeks.