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Natural Handmade Tallow Soaps

Hi, I'm Liz, welcome to Eight Acres. I live on a small farm in Kumbia, Australia, with my husband, Pete, and our dogs Taz and Gus. This website started off as a blog for sharing all the things we make and grow on our small farm. We keep a small herd of beef cattle and a few dairy cows. We also have lots of chickens, bees and a vege garden.

Now as well as sharing what I'm learning, I can share what we make through our virtual farmgate (online shop), where I sell natural handmade tallow soap and raw chemical-free honey and beeswax.

If you want to find out more about what we do on the farm and where these products come from, you can read more in my blog, follow any of my social links or send me an email, I'd love to hear from you. Please join my mailing list, then you'll never miss an update from Eight Acres.

Eight Acres - the blog — soap

Soap inside soap - how to use embeds

Dec 10 2018 3 Comments Tags: soap

The best thing about making your own soap is having fun with different techniques. Once you have mastered basic soap making, its very easy to play around with different ingredients to create unique soaps. For example, embeds, which is just soap inside a soap, are very simple and effective method to make a soap a little be special. What is an embed? An embed is just soap that you put into your soap batter before it sets, to create different shapes and colours within your soap. You can buy special moulds to make small soaps for embeds - for...

Using a shampoo soap bar

Sep 19 2018 5 Comments Tags: hair, shampoo, soap, too much information

Most recently I've been using a shampoo soap bar (what a surprise! You might have noticed that I love soap!). I have been using soap to wash my hair for over a year now, as I've been working on a recipe to add to my range of handmade natural soap. I've found a recipe that I'm happy with, and I'm ready to share it with you!

Rendering tallow in a slow cooker

May 28 2018 7 Comments Tags: butcher, soap, tallow

How to render fat using a slow cooker to make tallow for cooking or soapmaking.

Six facts about handmade natural soap

Dec 11 2017 5 Comments Tags: soap

Selling my soap at markets and to friends and family has made me realise how many questions people have about handmade soap. Here are the answers to some of the common questions I get from people who are interested in using handmade natural soap.

How to avoid soaping mistakes

Oct 23 2017 0 Comments Tags: ebook, soap

I'm not saying that I never make soaping mistakes, but I have figured out how to get my recipes right 99% of the time. Here are five tips from my experience with soapmaking that will help you to avoid soaping mistakes.

Natural handmade tallow soap recipe: Goats milk and honey

Jul 17 2017 2 Comments Tags: book, soap

I've been wanting to try making soap with milk for ages. We haven't been milking our cows, so I was waiting for a friend to have enough goat's milk to spare. I know I could just buy milk, but that seemed like a strange thing to do (you start to forget that milk comes from the shop when you've been milking a cow for a few years!). Anyway, I was happy to wait as I had plenty of other soap to make.

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Eight Acres - the blog — soap

Soap inside soap - how to use embeds

Using a shampoo soap bar

Rendering tallow in a slow cooker

Six facts about handmade natural soap

How to avoid soaping mistakes

Natural handmade tallow soap recipe: Goats milk and honey

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