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Post by Sheila on Nov 5, 2011 15:16:20 GMT -5
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 5, 2011 15:34:26 GMT -5
I'm going to have to try that. I can't wrap my head around a candle made completely of fat not melting into a puddle in just a few minutes. I already have some washed grease in the fridge.
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Post by Valerie on Nov 5, 2011 16:45:46 GMT -5
Lord, I'd be starving all the time if I used bacon grease candles! There just ain't nothing like the smell of bacon!  |
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 5, 2011 16:53:56 GMT -5
The article says they don't smell like bacon, but I'll bet, if you added some liquid smoke to the grease when you melted it, they would.
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Post by Sheila on Nov 5, 2011 17:21:22 GMT -5
Lord, I'd be starving all the time if I used bacon grease candles! There just ain't nothing like the smell of bacon! You and me both love the smell of bacon. |
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Post by Sheila on Nov 5, 2011 17:22:10 GMT -5
Gayle she also has a recipe for body soap made from bacon grease.
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 5, 2011 17:28:10 GMT -5
I just took a look. The only way I know to get lye is online and I don't think I want to do that because of Homeland Security and all. I had actually planned on using the grease in the fridge to try and make soap from washing soda in place of the lye. I tried it with baking soda, but it wasn't a strong enough alkaline to make it set up. All it did was thicken it into a gel.
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Post by Sheila on Nov 5, 2011 17:46:59 GMT -5
ahh thin it out some and you have shower gel and some essential oil.
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 5, 2011 18:49:11 GMT -5
That's what i ended up doing with it. I put it in a pump bottle and put it on the bathroom sink. The longer it sat, the thicker it got. I had to keep adding water. Eventually I had 6 bottles of it and it was still getting thicker. That would have been ok, but, the more water I added, the less soapy it was. I finally ended up throwing it out.
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Post by BigM on Nov 6, 2011 6:30:59 GMT -5
Have you looked at Ace for Lye? That's where I get mine.
Seems like a waste of good bacon grease to me!!
BigM
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 6, 2011 18:41:37 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the nearest Ace to me is 50 miles away. I've checked both hardware stores in my county, one in the county to the east, and 3 in the county to the west. Those are the only ones I know of. I also checked Walmart and Lowe's.
It's hard to explain how rural I am. The 'city' I go to sometimes is 30 miles away and most city people would consider it a small town. I think the population is around 5,000, about the same as my whole county.
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Post by Valerie on Nov 14, 2011 22:46:52 GMT -5
Gayle, your "rural" sounds a lot like ours, except we have 4 "towns" to choose from, each 20 miles away. Our hardware stores don't carry lye, either. Too much meth in these outlying areas.
Wouldn't it be funny if a person made bacon grease soap and didn't get all the smell out. Dogs and men would be following them around!
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Post by BigM on Nov 15, 2011 7:43:27 GMT -5
Dogs and men would be following them around!  |
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