Comments on: What Name Is Animals Fat Used To Make Soap And Washing-up Liquid Hidden Behind?

By: David Harmston

David Harmston — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:11:11 +0000

Yes Talow, after reacting with lye becomes sodium tallowate. Tallow being the redendered fat of ungalates (cattle, sheep, goats and the like). I harvested about 10 pounds from my old ram and another 5 from his son. If lard is used it is sodium lardate. If your looking for what fat is used in a soap what ever is in the spot for sodium ____ate will tell you, Sodium palmate would be made with palm oil. It’s not really hidden you just have to know what your looking at. @ Anonymous, any soap will dry your skin out the moisturing capacity has to do with a factor called “supersaturation” or the amount of fat that isn’t absorbed in the reaction with the lye. Some of those backwoods people are skilled to the point of extracting the lye they need from the wood ash from thier stoves. Remember Cities need the country, for the country cities are merely a convience.

By: Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:50:19 +0000

Animal fats are used in commercial detergents, they call them sodium tallowate, Lye is not an animal fat.

By: denis970

denis970 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:35:34 +0000

Tallow my dear, .
we used it in engineering, looks like hard dripping.

By: naztakua

naztakua — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:07:12 +0000

I’m allegic to lanolin. It makes my mother’s and my scalp Inflame (dermatitis reaction). Now I know why. They sell it at those little nature organic stores as this “great” product for skin but it’s murder on our skin really. Now I know why. Coconut oil soap is really goood. There’s this 100% vegan brand that’s name escapes me at the moment. It’s cruelty free.

By: RED

RED — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:47:06 +0000

Lanolin is a animal fat used in soaps etc…

By: cheek_of

cheek_of — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:01:51 +0000

Detergents are a by product of oil refining like allot of products that we take for granted today, they were traditionally made from animal by products that are sustainable, so its not a question of if but when we return to using animal by products.

By: TOM

TOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:36:49 +0000

The animal fat is tallow. Soap making with tallow was common in Spain and Italy by the 13th. Century. Most ‘tallow-free’ soap will say on the packet that it is produced from vegetable oils only. No idea about Fairy Liquid but my guess would be that it includes tallow in its ingredients.

By: ~ Floridian``

~ Floridian`` — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:52:48 +0000

Tallow…also used to make candles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:27:20 +0000

A long time ago they used Tallow that was chemically reacted with lye to make soap.
They do not do that anymore for commercially produced soaps and detergents.
Some back woods people still make the stuff that way and it seriously drys out your skin.
Edit – For those of you claiming that Lye is an animal product, it is not. Lye is what you get when you drip water through wood ashes. It is a caustic with a PH around 10.5.

By: SundaeG1

SundaeG1 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:23:08 +0000

You mean lanolin?
If you want a non-lanolin detergent, try the Ecover range.