Thanks for the offer. I might have some other on it's way so I'll hold off for now. The recommendation of a good product is enough as I hate buying a duff!
Source of good pine tar soap?
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Thanks for the offer. I might have some other on it's way so I'll hold off for now. The recommendation of a good product is enough as I hate buying a duff!
Found something, this is a blog entry from a lady in SA but it seems to contain the important points: https://auntieclaras.com/2017/02/mantysuopa-finnish-pine-soap/
It is not generally used as a hand washing soap because of it's alkalinity (pH 9.5), mostly used for cleaning and washing (not in a machine) everything else. I have not yet found if a lower pH version exists.
I found some (in a net store) in block form but with added phosphates and preservatives, trying to find some without as in the past.
It is not generally used as a hand washing soap because of it's alkalinity (pH 9.5), mostly used for cleaning and washing (not in a machine) everything else. I have not yet found if a lower pH version exists.
I found some (in a net store) in block form but with added phosphates and preservatives, trying to find some without as in the past.
I swear by Grandpa's soap. I get mine from Ray. It really seems to help with any skin problems.
Dave
Dave
https://www.kallans.se/butik/produkter/176-naturtval-tjaera.html
https://forsnashemman.se/products/akta-tjar-tval
Those soaps are made the natural, oldfashioned way.
Plus I am sure there are makers in Finland, they live their wood tar!
What is the Finnish word for ‘Tar Soap’?
https://forsnashemman.se/products/akta-tjar-tval
Those soaps are made the natural, oldfashioned way.
Plus I am sure there are makers in Finland, they live their wood tar!
What is the Finnish word for ‘Tar Soap’?
I know you want pine tar soap, but I have discovered birch oil soap. Has a similar smell but a bit less piney of course. I find it a nicer smell myself, but then being female I would I guess. I have a lady localy who makes it. Not cheap, but a good alternative and also good for skin conditions too. I have rid myself of a small persistent patch of excema using the birch oil soap.I guess you could call it birch tar as it's made the same way I think.
Will be spending a few days with her this comming birch collecting season to learn all about tapping and producing the oil. Maybe soap making too.
Excited about this
Grandpa's soap is great.
Will be spending a few days with her this comming birch collecting season to learn all about tapping and producing the oil. Maybe soap making too.
Excited about this
Grandpa's soap is great.
I know you want pine tar soap, but I have discovered birch oil soap. Has a similar smell but a bit less piney of course. I find it a nicer smell myself, but then being female I would I guess. I have a lady localy who makes it. Not cheap, but a good alternative and also good for skin conditions too. I have rid myself of a small persistent patch of excema using the birch oil soap.I guess you could call it birch tar as it's made the same way I think.
Will be spending a few days with her this comming birch collecting season to learn all about tapping and producing the oil. Maybe soap making too.
Excited about this
Grandpa's soap is great.
Sounds interesting, though I like the smokey scent to the pine as an added bonus to how it works for me.
When looking for Grandpa Soap found out that their tar soap is made with Pinus palustris tar, it just happens that this pine is on the (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Maybe one should not look so often ...
That is interesting. That is the Long Leaf Pine from the US Southeast and is also associated with commercial fat wood / maya sticks due to its high resin content.
No it does not but offhand I don't know what happens to tar with sodium hydroxide in soap making. At least some of the smell remains
After a short search it looks like pine tar contains a lot of substances that would react with sodium hydroxide so it probably would not retain all the properties in tar. Is there an organic chemist around?
It's possible that the supply of sodium hydroxide is exhausted in the original soap-making process.
Then, the pine tar is added. It should remain as an additive since there's no NaOH to react with it.
Then, the pine tar is added. It should remain as an additive since there's no NaOH to react with it.
Yes, traditionally it is added at the end, before the soap solidifies, together with Lanoline.
Good stuff, is supposed to help with various skin conditions.
Scandi trad. anti Mozzie preparations are a fat/oil, mixed with tar oil/pitch.
Works beautifully, but messes up the clothes.
Good stuff, is supposed to help with various skin conditions.
Scandi trad. anti Mozzie preparations are a fat/oil, mixed with tar oil/pitch.
Works beautifully, but messes up the clothes.
The first four recipes found mix the tar right in and seem to include that in the fatty acid calculation. I have never tried making soap but have been told about it.
On some Swedish sites they had a caveat that the tar soaps were for 'animal use', as some EU regulation banned Tar for human use?
(Not that would stop me!)
(Not that would stop me!)
Well there is an Old Finnish Saying: If sauna, vodka or tar does not help you'll die. Errr ...... that is probably not an exclusive or ...
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