Help! I want to learn how to make Tar shampoo and soap!

[Organics North]

I have a strong preference to Tar shampoo and soap. In my past life when I traveled for work, I would stock up in Finland for cheap. When I ran out of that I found Grandpa's brand Tar Shampoo and soap. I like them but the are very very pricey and only can get it on the net.

So I want to learn to make my own!

Can anyone hear make it and willing to share how it is done?

ON

 

[big brown horse]

Pine tar or Coal tar?

 

[big brown horse]

Here is a blog on pine tar soap. The recipe is in the first 3 paragraphs or so. http://www.alpharubicon.com/primitive/soapfordummiesaf.htm

 

[Organics North]

Thanks BBH,,
http://www.millersoap.com/castile.html has some good info specific to Pine Tar..
I want to make Pine tar. We have lots and lots of pine trees. (White Pine, Red Pine, White Spruce, Black Spruce, Balsam Fir, Hemlock.

Yikes! seems so expensive and complicated, with the soap setting up so fast. Especially if I do not like the end product...

I found this on making pine tar..
http://www.primitiveways.com/pine_pitch_stick.html

Thanks
ON

 

[Morgaine]

If you want to make Pine Tar soap, the easiest way is to hot process it. Unless you are experienced at soapmaking, regular cold process may be to tricky. look at the hot process directions on Millersoaps.com

 

[Organics North]

OK thanks!
At what point in the process should I add the Pine tar? Before the lye with the oils or after the lye when thickening?
0n

 

[Morgaine]

When making hot process, you are forcing the soap to go through the saponification much faster than you would using the Cold process method. Once the soap is "cooked", there is no active lye so you do not have to worry about the pine tar reacting with lye. Here is a link on how to make hot process soap.

http://allcrafts.tripod.com/

You should add the pine tar after the soap if done cooking

 

[Organics North]

Thanks, Morgaine..I book marked the site..
OK,
Wow quite the process..
Collect and cook pine sap into tar.
Save wood ashes to make lye
Spend a bunch of money on fats
Find and follow recipe.. Hope I like the end product!

Know..... How do I find a recipe I will like. As stated earlier I do like the Grandpa's pine tar soap.

(I have thick hair and skin... not too oily but not too dry.) Like to bathe 2 or 3 times per week. In winter if I do not bathe I get oily hair and a dry flaky itchy scalp, and itchy patches of skin.) Oh yes our water is hard untreated but not too hard.

Any suggestions on a recipe for Pine tar soap??

ON