I love that you're using waste oils! I don't know if this will help, but when I filter my bacon grease to use for soap making, I make sure to do it when it's still really hot and it moves through the filter faster. Maybe a bit dangerous to reheat the canola oil though. My husband said the color of the soap is like coffee with cream, maybe you could sent it that way. Thanks John, love your channel. You do great work!
I just followed your recipe. That was my first time ever making soap! Nice and easy. Doesn't even smell like fish anymore! I used the soybean oil for frying up some battered fish. Thank you!
Very nice, her in Egypt we used to do this soap for cleaning the dishes. but we do extra step which is washing the soap paste after cooking it (HP soap) using water to remove the residual wastes, we use stearic acid also because because the soap turns to jello if it was in wet areas. Excuse my lang. Thanks a lot.
Yep! I might also try washing the oil next time too. That way the solids can settle out and the smell will be better too. It's kind of like making bio diesel 😁
Hi! I was looking for a cheap recipe of soap to try, and just found your video, thank you!! I have access to a combination of sunflower and corn oil, do you think it will work with the same amounts as canola oil? Or do I need to adjust something? Your soap turned out so pretty! Hope I can make something similar with what I have on hand :) I'll check the rest of your videos! Thank you again
I would plug then into soapcalc and make sure. Corn oil can be a little word of used in high quantities. That gallon jug of canola oil is about $3.50- $4.00 at Wal-Mart and will do a couple batches easily by itself. Hope it turns out for you!
@@unclejonssoap Here in my country is kinda expensive (olive oil too) so I was looking for an alternative. I will keep searching for info :) Thank you for your response!
It's worth a try to use the corn oil / sunflower oil. I would do a small batch first to make sure it works well for you. Most of this is going to be experimenting to see what you like 😁
Hi! I made my first batch of soap!! Is a small one, but I used soybean oil (it was on sale) I used 300gr of soybean oil, 41gr of sodium hydroxide and 100gr of water. It doesn't lather much, but I turned some of it into liquid soap (the liquid version does lather, don't know exactly why) and is awesome to wash dishes, our skin is very grateful. I will make more and give it to my family :D Thank you for the inspiration and support!
@@shannenlibres2365 strangely not at all especially if you use essences, i think that bacon grease mixed with vanilla and mango oil smells amazing like putting bacon on pancakes with mapple syrup
I love the idea, but would be concerned about the scent. My dad used recycled oil for his work Diesel trucks. Even with filtering and what now, I always felt the exhaust has a slight fast food smell lol.
You can buy a filter specifically for filtering oils from a restaurant supply store. If you plan on doing this more than once it’s definitely worth checking out. I worked at a takeaway and we would use these every morning. It’s like a funnel shaped coffee filter but with several layers. Oil runs through it really quick and comes out crystal clear. Our oil never looked dark like that stuff you are using though. I’d hate to taste food cooked with that oil before it was changed 🤢 that being said, stuff cooked in the brand new oil didn’t have much flavour. There’s kind of a sweet spot where the oil has been infused with the flavour of the food but still tastes clean. We used to time it so the oil was ‘ripe’ during our busiest days so the most customers could enjoy it.
Ps that’s also why when you fry stuff at home it doesn’t taste the same as food from a take away. I guess if you reused it enough it would but it would take a lot of uses.
Hi Uncle Jon. If I make a 100% Canola Oil Soap at 3% superfat would my soap go rancid or get orange spot? I have been making soaps but wanted to try a full canola oil soap
Years ago my son-in-law was working at DQ. I asked him to save me some fryer oil for soap making. He stored it in a 5-gallon dill pickle bucket. My soap turned out smelling like dill pickles, not that I cared
Hi Jon, Got a nice economical variant from you. Thanks friend. I just have 2 queries, shall appreciate your inputs. - Since the oil might have undergone multiple use or say over use, would it be harmful to the skin? - Can a refined oil be used. Would it be safe for the soap user?
Simple recipe .I would add oil of lavender ,pine ,vanilla extract ,eucalyptus ,coconut oil ,olive oil and or any others for scent .I wonder if by adding eucalyptus and Pine it would work better for cleaning grease off your hands ..My friend's wife made some soap and she added vanilla rum and coffee grinds
I'm new to soap making and i want to recycle oil. Where I live sunflower oil is the cheapest oil available, so I'm guessing that's all I'll be able to get. Would that work? I also saw another video that put activated charcoal in the oil and let it sit for a while so it would absorb some of the smell and nasty stuff, I might give that a go too!
I made a filter by drilling about two dozen 1/4" holes in the bottom of a plastic bucket. Then I packed the bottom of the bucket with rolls of toilet paper. Ttake the cardboard tubes out of the rolls so you can compress them. I packed the rolls standing upright in the bottom of the bucket and then jammed extra TP into any voids between rolls. I place the filter bucket inside another bucket and pour in my waste vegetable oil. It filters out even the tiniest particles.
I bought paint from a Habitat for Humanity place. Unbeknownst to me, the paint was old and it had little lumps even after mixing. To make a long story longer, Home Depot sell a 5 gallon bucket size sock to specifically strain paint. It is elastic and fits around the top, but I secured it with binder clips. Maybe it would be a better than the garden paper to strain oil? It was around $5 for 3 socks. I found it in the paint section.
Awesome here come my kebab soaps! Question(s)! Will the oil become rancid causing DOS ,also what kinds of fragrance could be used to mask the smell? Would you use this on your face or rather mix coconut oil in it to create a gardeners soap!
I wouldn't worry about DOS unless you don't filter it out enough. It should be good for any type of soap really. But if you're really worried about it going bad, then you could try to get as close as possible to zero super fat and just use it for a general cleaning / laundry soap. As for fragrance, any fragrance or essential oil can be used... But there is no smell...lol
Great question! We use commercial yeah can liners 😁 These are the clear type that you would see in institutions like schools. You can but then at Sam's club, BJ's, Costco, etc. They come in bulk boxes and are fist size rolls. I get the 30 gallon bags (I think) and can get 8 liners from each bag.
Hello Uncle Jon, I'm new to soap making. I have seen another video of someone using charcoal to removed the smell of cooking from the oil. Did you have any issue like that? Thanks
We haven't had that issue too much as long as the oil in fairly clean. You can actually "wash" the oil to settle out debris and impurities if you like. Maybe I'll do a video about that soon!
Aas a proffessional kitchen cleaner, I can tell you when you use NaOH based cleaners you end up saponifiying grease without even wanting to, just by scrubbing XDD
Works REALLY WELL if you can team up with a restaurant that needs to get rid of their oil instead of paying someone to take it away and dispose of it, and the way landfills , and communities are REALLY clamping down on various types of waste, its getting difficult for restaurants to dispose of their wastes.
Actually, around here, companies are paying the restaurants for their used oil. Not much, but enough that it's worth them storing it for those companies. But if you're really nice they may let you take some 😁
Use somme heat with your oil and it will go throught a lot faster, to clean your oil, boil it in salt water, the dirt qets a highter density and separate from the oil.
Hey uncle Jhon...!!!! Working in a restaurant I’m cooking about 80 lb of bacon,,,and frying so much things on a deep fryer....... any formula to make soap adding lard n used fry oil ...????
If you're using bacon fat and used cooking oil, I would use lard and whatever your main frying oil is in the lye calculator. Just make sure your used oil and bacon fat are very clean before trying to make soap with them. Otherwise your soap might get funky rather quickly. Filtering is the least I would do. Might not be a bad idea to wash each oil as well to get the nasty stuff to settle out. That's a whole other topic...lol. But it can be done.
Hi Uncle Jon. Its nice to stumble upon your chanel. Its so inspiring. I wonder have you ever made 100% palm oil soap? From where I come from we use alot of palm oil, so I have alot of used palm oil just to be dispose. But instead of disposing it, I want to try to make a dish soap. Do you have any advice on how much superfat should I put on a soapcal? Its going to be a super drying soap?
I just use the calculations for my basic mixed oil recipes. So, my bl nd of olive (or canola) coconut, palmy, etc. whatever the water and lye amount I use there is what I use for this one. It's worked very well for us. Otherwise, you can just go with whatever the bulk of the original is. For this one, the restaurant used canola oil exclusively for their fryers. I just ignored any other fats that might have come from chicken or whatever. Hope that helps.
For me, trace is when I pull the mixer head out and whatever drips off leaves a slight dent in the surface. This soap could be used for dishes but may leave a slight film behind.
I just made this exact recipe with my old donut and french fry oil! It worked great. BUT, honestly I wish i had added some fragrance because when I use it, my hands smell like I have been working all day frying! 😢😮. Maybe I am just overly sensitive to smells 😅😂. Thanks for the great video!
You can use essential oils for sure. Just check with the manufacturer to see what the safe usage rate is for each one. As for the peanut oil, you sure can! The only thing I would do is to make sure other people know it's peanut oil in case of allergies. If you're not selling then no big deal. If you do sell, then I would make sure people know about the peanut oil and that there are probably other fats in there too (like from the turkey). That's what I do on my labels with recycled oil.
I, I got a lot of used oil from a restaurant, how do I save the rest I am not using now, I use it for making soup, my fridge is too small, how can I store it?
For us, we have a cool, dark place in our basement where we can store some containers full for months at a time. The key is to keep it air tight and cool. It won't last forever but this helps. I would say to only store a few gallons at a time if it won't get used within a few months.
Oh wow Thank you very much❤️!!!! I was thinking I was not going to make soaps any time soon since I couldn't find tallow, and the other recommended oils ( olive and coconut )are quite pricey to use for trial and error Can you please make sunflower oil based soap as well ? It's a common oil used for cooking. I have read that it makes weak soaps but after watching this video I believe anything is possible 😎👌🏽
So I finally made the soap yesterday.. I was so scared😅 but it turned out great! nice even yellow colour ...I'll be cutting it tonight 😍 Although I'll also have some unexpected shape I was out of mould and could only buy it the next day so it hardened up in the pot 😂😂😂 Thanks again for the recipe!💟 God bless you !🙏🏽
I did this experiment, and the soap calculator measurements were hardness less than the minimum, and the cleansing and foaming in the soap were zero. Can you explain sir
When freshly made, it does have a familiar cooked smell. Hard to place it really. But it's almost nutty. That smell tends to fade as the soap ages. Also, filtering the oils more would help reduce that scent.
I wonder if a person could wash the oil--- heat it with salt and water-- then let it separate and all the impurities will sink and the oil will stay on top. Maybe
OK Uncle Jon... you might as well admit you and Bruce Willis are related. lol This is a great idea but if you don't have cheese cloth you can use and old clean T shirt, sack cloth and I'll bet even a wife beater T shirt ( hey, I didn't give it that name) would work well too for straining. May I ask how long did you let the soap cure being this was a cold process? I always thought it had to be at least a month to 6 wks. Thanks Uncle Jon :o)
Most of my soaps are fine within a couple days. Honestly, most soaps don't really change much other than losing some extra water weight. I did end up using cotton cloth to filter 😁
I'm a chef and I've worked in many kitchens, Restaurant oils even the cleanest are not greatest in smell, Could you add a FO or EO, what do you use it for or sell as. Eg gardeners or mechanics soap
I use lye from essential depot. It's easy to store but costs a little more because of them coming in 2 pound containers. But I have never had any go bad or clump up on me either. If you have a chemical supply house near you, it's probably cheaper to purchase there and save on shipping.
@@unclejonssoap I'm going to try making soap I have a restaurant and have lots and lots and lots of used fryer oil all made from soybean oil. Should be interesting, I already make my own laundry detergent have been for years. Also on a side note they make filter cones for straining fryer oil. You can get them on Ebay, Amazon, or any restaurant supply house online.
One of these days I've got to attempt this for both biodiesel (apparently glycerine is a byproduct that some soapers use as well) and soap! Cleaning up the oil is what has slowed me down from trying this sometimes Free99 ingredient. Is there a good way to 'wash' the oil to get rid of the food scent it seems to hold on to? 🐰 Jen
For me, just screening the oil a couple times seems to be enough especially once it has gone through saponification. The soap I've made has no added oils, scents or additives and it has no bad food odor at all.
I used to run a biodiesel lab. We would mix incoming oil in a tank to keep an consistent blend. Constantly pumping through a filter to cycle everything. Then we would pump it up into a heating tank and have it go through centrifuge to get out even more food matter. Afterwards it was pumped into one of two processing tanks. We would make biodiesel and then have the tank sit for a day to settle out the glycerin. We would pump out the layer of glycerin and it would still have a lard and sometimes fryer smell.
I love the idea and I want it to work, but my soap smells funny even over top of essential oils and it turns to mush quickly in the shower. I even did hot process with 0% superfat then added some coconut oil after cooking to try to achieve saponification of all recycled oil and then create a clean superfat. But the finished product is not ideal, i.e. soft and smelly. Any recommendations?
It really depends on what was cooked in the oil, if they burnt the oil or used it too long, and how clean was the oil before you used it. If it stinks when you started it might not be any good to use for soap.
It's great, but I'm concerned about the oil or whatever waste that this soap produces while using it. Isn't it like pouring small amounts of oil down the drain?
It's no different than any other real soap honestly. Now, if you make any soap with too much support fat, it can cause some minor build up issues. Just a matter of making it correctly 😁
I heard you can filter the oil by putting plain flour on top wait for the flour to sink to the bottom and then pour off the oil, I havent tried it personally would be interested if anyone else has.
This works. I did this several years back when my husband experimented with frying the A thanksgiving turkey. There was so much oil left over. I just could not see all that oil go to waste! I made some fantastic bars with peanut oil that year.
my oil is vegan from only fries and is not dark like yours in video.we change it often. i just made this recipe in video. still smells like fryer oil 1 day later. will smell go away?
Possibly. Some of that depends on how much super fat you have. The only way to really know is to just keep letting it cure. Did you add any fragrance to the soap?
It's food grade but totally unnecessary. There's really not enough of a difference to worry about it in soap. It the company I buy from, this seems to be the only type they deal with.
Hey, I love your videos! A question: normally a recipe for used oil is the same to a "unused" oil? In other words, if have use vegetable oil could use a recipe for unused vegetable oil? Or the heat exposure changes priorities? :) (Thanks in advance).
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I love that you're using waste oils! I don't know if this will help, but when I filter my bacon grease to use for soap making, I make sure to do it when it's still really hot and it moves through the filter faster. Maybe a bit dangerous to reheat the canola oil though. My husband said the color of the soap is like coffee with cream, maybe you could sent it that way. Thanks John, love your channel. You do great work!
What's the risk involved in reheating Canola oil?
Bacon grease is great for making fried rice and eggs
I just followed your recipe. That was my first time ever making soap! Nice and easy. Doesn't even smell like fish anymore! I used the soybean oil for frying up some battered fish. Thank you!
I have a KFC close to me, add some Maple fragrance and call it chicken-n-waffles.. hehehehe
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Duuuuuuuude! It’s been two years. You rich yet?
@@jerbear7952 Nope, only making soap for friends and family now..lol
My mother's grandmother made soap out of waste oils. I still remember the smell of her soap ❤
My grandmother did this up to the 80s. I remember as a kid fascinated and freaked out.
Very nice, her in Egypt we used to do this soap for cleaning the dishes. but we do extra step which is washing the soap paste after cooking it (HP soap) using water to remove the residual wastes, we use stearic acid also because because the soap turns to jello if it was in wet areas. Excuse my lang. Thanks a lot.
How much steric acid do you use? In a batch?
Am from Trinidad I tried it and I add fragrance and ballief hm lovely
Hi Uncle Jon, hope someday you will be international, so that we can try your soap here in Philippines. More power!😍😍😍
Our website is International now 😁
Very cool. I always wondered about making soap out of recycled cooking oil.
Louciousness I tell you what
I never heard of this idea! It's a smart thing to save money and save waste for the environment.
Great idea using recycled oil. Like the shirt.
Nice I'm making my lard grease from bacon and ground beef I'm cleaning it now...great job...
Try organza or organdy it's thin as lace so liquid runs freely through it but it's dense enough to catch everything.
Yep! I might also try washing the oil next time too. That way the solids can settle out and the smell will be better too. It's kind of like making bio diesel 😁
I never thought to use my old cooking oil
Nice I have three gallons of peanut oil from frying our turkey. Almost perfect condition.
That would work well!😁
Thanks Uncle. The distinct lack of ppe when handling lye was quite distressing though!
Hi! I was looking for a cheap recipe of soap to try, and just found your video, thank you!! I have access to a combination of sunflower and corn oil, do you think it will work with the same amounts as canola oil? Or do I need to adjust something?
Your soap turned out so pretty! Hope I can make something similar with what I have on hand :) I'll check the rest of your videos!
Thank you again
I would plug then into soapcalc and make sure. Corn oil can be a little word of used in high quantities. That gallon jug of canola oil is about $3.50- $4.00 at Wal-Mart and will do a couple batches easily by itself. Hope it turns out for you!
@@unclejonssoap Here in my country is kinda expensive (olive oil too) so I was looking for an alternative. I will keep searching for info :) Thank you for your response!
It's worth a try to use the corn oil / sunflower oil. I would do a small batch first to make sure it works well for you. Most of this is going to be experimenting to see what you like 😁
@@unclejonssoap Yes, I'll try :D If it works, I'll be back here to tell the recipe, maybe other people find it useful. Thank you again!
Hi! I made my first batch of soap!! Is a small one, but I used soybean oil (it was on sale) I used 300gr of soybean oil, 41gr of sodium hydroxide and 100gr of water. It doesn't lather much, but I turned some of it into liquid soap (the liquid version does lather, don't know exactly why) and is awesome to wash dishes, our skin is very grateful. I will make more and give it to my family :D
Thank you for the inspiration and support!
My man, hope your loving the new shop. Awesome crazy idea 💡
#honest Jon lol
Cool info had no idea about the Great Depression etc
Thanks! Yeah it's great here 😁
In the 50's, grandma made our soap out of leftover grease and fats that were absolutely good for nothing else.
even if it's cooked with like meat and other food it's not gonna smell weird?
@@shannenlibres2365 strangely not at all especially if you use essences, i think that bacon grease mixed with vanilla and mango oil smells amazing like putting bacon on pancakes with mapple syrup
Thank you, been wanting a canola recipe
Great for making candles too! 👍🇨🇦💫
Never thought about that. Might have to research it some more. Thanks!
Uncle Jon's .. add some beeswax and “ bobs your uncle “ lol. I make tallow candles! Awesome. Burn slow and clean! 👍.
Very cool!
That is awsome!
This is brilliant.
I like it, this is the best solution for our used oil.
I love the idea, but would be concerned about the scent. My dad used recycled oil for his work Diesel trucks. Even with filtering and what now, I always felt the exhaust has a slight fast food smell lol.
Mine had no adverse scent once saponified and cured. And, it can be scented with FO or EO. 😁
You can buy a filter specifically for filtering oils from a restaurant supply store. If you plan on doing this more than once it’s definitely worth checking out. I worked at a takeaway and we would use these every morning. It’s like a funnel shaped coffee filter but with several layers. Oil runs through it really quick and comes out crystal clear. Our oil never looked dark like that stuff you are using though. I’d hate to taste food cooked with that oil before it was changed 🤢 that being said, stuff cooked in the brand new oil didn’t have much flavour. There’s kind of a sweet spot where the oil has been infused with the flavour of the food but still tastes clean. We used to time it so the oil was ‘ripe’ during our busiest days so the most customers could enjoy it.
Ps that’s also why when you fry stuff at home it doesn’t taste the same as food from a take away. I guess if you reused it enough it would but it would take a lot of uses.
Hi, great recipe,. I was wondering if i could use straight up un used vegetable oil or do i need to heat it up for a while
Hi Uncle Jon. If I make a 100% Canola Oil Soap at 3% superfat would my soap go rancid or get orange spot? I have been making soaps but wanted to try a full canola oil soap
Years ago my son-in-law was working at DQ. I asked him to save me some fryer oil for soap making. He stored it in a 5-gallon dill pickle bucket. My soap turned out smelling like dill pickles, not that I cared
That's hilarious. I use every kind of yucky oil to make soaps. Some definitely smell better than others.
Hi Jon, Got a nice economical variant from you. Thanks friend.
I just have 2 queries, shall appreciate your inputs.
- Since the oil might have undergone multiple use or say over use, would it be harmful to the skin?
- Can a refined oil be used. Would it be safe for the soap user?
It's all good man
Use it like a normal soap
Long expected video uncle Jon . .. . Thanks
Simple recipe .I would add oil of lavender ,pine ,vanilla extract ,eucalyptus ,coconut oil ,olive oil and or any others for scent .I wonder if by adding eucalyptus and Pine it would work better for cleaning grease off your hands ..My friend's wife made some soap and she added vanilla rum and coffee grinds
I'd love to see a hardness and lather test with this soap? Thanks so much for the demo! 🐰 Jen
I did a lather test with it a few days ago 😁 it lathers very well and is a little harder than my normal bars surprisingly..lol
@@unclejonssoap how long did it take to cure?
@@unclejonssoap how long did it take to cure?
Full cure was about 5 weeks. Perfectly usable within a couple days.
@@unclejonssoap Thanks, will be trying this with regular canola oil. Does adding tallow make it harder or different in any way?
I'm new to soap making and i want to recycle oil. Where I live sunflower oil is the cheapest oil available, so I'm guessing that's all I'll be able to get. Would that work?
I also saw another video that put activated charcoal in the oil and let it sit for a while so it would absorb some of the smell and nasty stuff, I might give that a go too!
That oil would work fine. You can use charcoal but it's not totally necessary as long as you filter the oil. Let me know how it turns out 😁
I made a filter by drilling about two dozen 1/4" holes in the bottom of a plastic bucket. Then I packed the bottom of the bucket with rolls of toilet paper. Ttake the cardboard tubes out of the rolls so you can compress them. I packed the rolls standing upright in the bottom of the bucket and then jammed extra TP into any voids between rolls. I place the filter bucket inside another bucket and pour in my waste vegetable oil. It filters out even the tiniest particles.
I bought paint from a Habitat for Humanity place. Unbeknownst to me, the paint was old and it had little lumps even after mixing. To make a long story longer, Home Depot sell a 5 gallon bucket size sock to specifically strain paint. It is elastic and fits around the top, but I secured it with binder clips. Maybe it would be a better than the garden paper to strain oil? It was around $5 for 3 socks. I found it in the paint section.
It would be great as a first run filter for bigger peices but the oul would stull need to go through finer fabric of some sort a couple times.
Panty hose works well & is cheaper!
Looks like you hit rock bottom Uncle John. Here now, let me put a little money on your book. 🤣😂😃🤣😂😃
🤣 the site is open 24-7 lol
For filtering oils, old T-shirts that could be used as rags.
Terrific job, it came out great
Awesome here come my kebab soaps!
Question(s)! Will the oil become rancid causing DOS ,also what kinds of fragrance could be used to mask the smell?
Would you use this on your face or rather mix coconut oil in it to create a gardeners soap!
I wouldn't worry about DOS unless you don't filter it out enough. It should be good for any type of soap really. But if you're really worried about it going bad, then you could try to get as close as possible to zero super fat and just use it for a general cleaning / laundry soap. As for fragrance, any fragrance or essential oil can be used... But there is no smell...lol
Great video.
Thanks....What do you use to line your mold?
Great question! We use commercial yeah can liners 😁 These are the clear type that you would see in institutions like schools. You can but then at Sam's club, BJ's, Costco, etc. They come in bulk boxes and are fist size rolls. I get the 30 gallon bags (I think) and can get 8 liners from each bag.
I really want to know when are you going to make Old Bay soap? If anyone can, it'll be you.
Guess it's time to try a batch and see how it comes out 🤣
You could do two new soap scents French fries and fried chicken. 😎
Lol.. probably won't try that 😂
Hello Uncle Jon, I'm new to soap making. I have seen another video of someone using charcoal to removed the smell of cooking from the oil. Did you have any issue like that? Thanks
We haven't had that issue too much as long as the oil in fairly clean. You can actually "wash" the oil to settle out debris and impurities if you like. Maybe I'll do a video about that soon!
@@unclejonssoap That would be an interesting video about "washing" oil
Aas a proffessional kitchen cleaner, I can tell you when you use NaOH based cleaners you end up saponifiying grease without even wanting to, just by scrubbing XDD
that's quite interesting... thanks for sharing this!
Works REALLY WELL if you can team up with a restaurant that needs to get rid of their oil instead of paying someone to take it away and dispose of it, and the way landfills , and communities are REALLY clamping down on various types of waste, its getting difficult for restaurants to dispose of their wastes.
Actually, around here, companies are paying the restaurants for their used oil. Not much, but enough that it's worth them storing it for those companies. But if you're really nice they may let you take some 😁
Use somme heat with your oil and it will go throught a lot faster, to clean your oil, boil it in salt water, the dirt qets a highter density and separate from the oil.
love this kind of shows like discovery Channel how it made
Hey uncle Jhon...!!!! Working in a restaurant I’m cooking about 80 lb of bacon,,,and frying so much things on a deep fryer....... any formula to make soap adding lard n used fry oil ...????
If you're using bacon fat and used cooking oil, I would use lard and whatever your main frying oil is in the lye calculator. Just make sure your used oil and bacon fat are very clean before trying to make soap with them. Otherwise your soap might get funky rather quickly. Filtering is the least I would do. Might not be a bad idea to wash each oil as well to get the nasty stuff to settle out. That's a whole other topic...lol. But it can be done.
I’ve heard that the bad smell comes back in the soap after a while, how to take it away?
In japan there some personel who collect a used cooking oil in whole neighborhood and then they turn it into detergent soap.
Hi Uncle Jon. Its nice to stumble upon your chanel. Its so inspiring. I wonder have you ever made 100% palm oil soap? From where I come from we use alot of palm oil, so I have alot of used palm oil just to be dispose. But instead of disposing it, I want to try to make a dish soap. Do you have any advice on how much superfat should I put on a soapcal? Its going to be a super drying soap?
I haven't. But it would be cool to see how it turns out!
We make palm oil soap in West Africa
Great idea, waste not want not! Guessing you wouldn't want to superfat when using 100% cooking oil?
I did. 6% 😁
@@unclejonssoap I was worried there might be residual food smells or something :)
Nope. Turned out fine. The double filtering helped that.
Ca you use other oils to superfat then the cookingoil in the batch?
Great video as always. I'll be doing this soon.... But with gloves on! ;p
Just be careful using gloves too. They have their own safety issues sometimes.
What do you add to the lye calculator for type of oil?
I just use the calculations for my basic mixed oil recipes. So, my bl nd of olive (or canola) coconut, palmy, etc. whatever the water and lye amount I use there is what I use for this one. It's worked very well for us. Otherwise, you can just go with whatever the bulk of the original is. For this one, the restaurant used canola oil exclusively for their fryers. I just ignored any other fats that might have come from chicken or whatever. Hope that helps.
How do you know what trace looks like and can u use this for dish washing?
For me, trace is when I pull the mixer head out and whatever drips off leaves a slight dent in the surface. This soap could be used for dishes but may leave a slight film behind.
Where to get this frame. I like it.
I just made this exact recipe with my old donut and french fry oil! It worked great. BUT, honestly I wish i had added some fragrance because when I use it, my hands smell like I have been working all day frying! 😢😮. Maybe I am just overly sensitive to smells 😅😂. Thanks for the great video!
I find that that smell fades a lot when the soap ages for a while. Glad it works!
@@unclejonssoap that is true. It is fully aged now and it just smells neutral.
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I was wondering if you heated it up a little bit if it would flow easier? I don’t know if it would get to hot and melt what you are using or not!
A little great night help. But, the experiment was to see just how simply we could do that batch 😁
Hey Uncle Jon try some wool/felt fabric
It even removes flour remnants
Awesome! I'll give it a shot 😁
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that is great advice
Love this!! You da man Jon!!
Thanks for the recipe!! Can I use peanut oil I have a lot from my Turkey fryer? Also can I use essential oils?? Thanks again!!
You can use essential oils for sure. Just check with the manufacturer to see what the safe usage rate is for each one. As for the peanut oil, you sure can! The only thing I would do is to make sure other people know it's peanut oil in case of allergies. If you're not selling then no big deal. If you do sell, then I would make sure people know about the peanut oil and that there are probably other fats in there too (like from the turkey). That's what I do on my labels with recycled oil.
I, I got a lot of used oil from a restaurant, how do I save the rest I am not using now, I use it for making soup, my fridge is too small, how can I store it?
For us, we have a cool, dark place in our basement where we can store some containers full for months at a time. The key is to keep it air tight and cool. It won't last forever but this helps. I would say to only store a few gallons at a time if it won't get used within a few months.
Oh wow Thank you very much❤️!!!! I was thinking I was not going to make soaps any time soon since I couldn't find tallow, and the other recommended oils ( olive and coconut )are quite pricey to use for trial and error
Can you please make sunflower oil based soap as well ? It's a common oil used for cooking.
I have read that it makes weak soaps but after watching this video I believe anything is possible 😎👌🏽
You can find lard pretty cheap in the baking aisle.
Depends on where you're from too. Some countries lard isn't that prevalent to the public..if at all.
So I finally made the soap yesterday.. I was so scared😅 but it turned out great! nice even yellow colour ...I'll be cutting it tonight 😍
Although I'll also have some unexpected shape I was out of mould and could only buy it the next day so it hardened up in the pot 😂😂😂
Thanks again for the recipe!💟 God bless you !🙏🏽
That's great! Now you're hooked 🤣
How long have you found that this type of soap needs to cure?
I did this experiment, and the soap calculator measurements were hardness less than the minimum, and the cleansing and foaming in the soap were zero. Can you explain sir
Interesting. What if the used oil was a combination of oils?
Generally,you would want to know the approximate ratio of the different oils. That would make the lye amount and super fat more accurate.
@@unclejonssoap Makes sense. Thanks
@@unclejonssoap It makes sense. WIll take that into account. Thanks!
Challenge: Take a drink every time Uncle Jon says "Bucket" in this episode ~
I followed your advice and i just wanna tell you i love you man. We should get an apartment
Maybe it's out of the theme of this video but have you ever plaited your beard? You would look like the perfect Viking, out of a movie!
I haven't done it. Thought about it a couple times.
@@unclejonssoap Would be interesting. Just for fun. Have you read Asterix and Obelix stories? I got the idea from there.
@@unclejonssoap I have just finished a 2kg batch using recycled oil after watching your video. Put it through soap calc. Looks promising!
I haven't. I'll have to check it out!
Id like to know how a soap with used oil smells. Does it smell like french fries
When freshly made, it does have a familiar cooked smell. Hard to place it really. But it's almost nutty. That smell tends to fade as the soap ages. Also, filtering the oils more would help reduce that scent.
I want to make a beer and bacon grease soap, but I use my bacon grease for bread and I'm not willing to give it up for my soap... Yet.
Understood. That's why I'm using someone else's waste oil😂
@@unclejonssoap glad I'm not alone. Lol!
can you imporve it as shaving oil ?
I wonder if a person could wash the oil--- heat it with salt and water-- then let it separate and all the impurities will sink and the oil will stay on top. Maybe
Will a coffee filter work better?
Too fine unfortunately.
Uncle Jon, can I use this soap for body wash head to toes?
Yep!
Im looking for a way to use my used cooking oil to make bird suet...would this work...or do you have a way to do it so its edible ..
Good question! I'll have to think on this one..lol.
@@unclejonssoap i know there’s a food grade one.
Yeah.. not sure how well that would work. But maybe if it was done with about half the amount of lye?
Try flour sack clothes. Cheap at walmart. And much better and reusable 😊
Warm your oil and use a 5 gal disposable paint strainer.
Doesn't even need to be warmed so far...lol
But the paint strainer is a great idea
Very cool!
Woah, are you a RED FANG fan???? 🤘🏼
Yep!😁
OK Uncle Jon... you might as well admit you and Bruce Willis are related. lol This is a great idea but if you don't have cheese cloth you can use and old clean T shirt, sack cloth and I'll bet even a wife beater T shirt ( hey, I didn't give it that name) would work well too for straining. May I ask how long did you let the soap cure being this was a cold process? I always thought it had to be at least a month to 6 wks. Thanks Uncle Jon :o)
Most of my soaps are fine within a couple days. Honestly, most soaps don't really change much other than losing some extra water weight. I did end up using cotton cloth to filter 😁
@@unclejonssoap I'll have to put that to the test. If I start screaming... I'll let you know lol :o)
Deal...lol
I'm a chef and I've worked in many kitchens, Restaurant oils even the cleanest are not greatest in smell, Could you add a FO or EO, what do you use it for or sell as. Eg gardeners or mechanics soap
The smell after saponification isn't anything like used oil...lol. But yes you can add FO or EO just like any other soap.
This is a regular soap. Good for bathing, hand washing, etc..
Where and what brand of lye do you use?
I use lye from essential depot. It's easy to store but costs a little more because of them coming in 2 pound containers. But I have never had any go bad or clump up on me either. If you have a chemical supply house near you, it's probably cheaper to purchase there and save on shipping.
do you scent them
I haven't scented these yet. I wanted to make sure they weren't weird smelling on their own first...lol. They've never turned rancid or anything.
Does used soybean oil from the fryer work the same as this?
Yep!
@@unclejonssoap I'm going to try making soap I have a restaurant and have lots and lots and lots of used fryer oil all made from soybean oil. Should be interesting, I already make my own laundry detergent have been for years. Also on a side note they make filter cones for straining fryer oil. You can get them on Ebay, Amazon, or any restaurant supply house online.
One of these days I've got to attempt this for both biodiesel (apparently glycerine is a byproduct that some soapers use as well) and soap! Cleaning up the oil is what has slowed me down from trying this sometimes Free99 ingredient. Is there a good way to 'wash' the oil to get rid of the food scent it seems to hold on to? 🐰 Jen
For me, just screening the oil a couple times seems to be enough especially once it has gone through saponification. The soap I've made has no added oils, scents or additives and it has no bad food odor at all.
@@unclejonssoap Wonderful! Totally going to try this out. Now to find a source....
I used to run a biodiesel lab. We would mix incoming oil in a tank to keep an consistent blend. Constantly pumping through a filter to cycle everything. Then we would pump it up into a heating tank and have it go through centrifuge to get out even more food matter. Afterwards it was pumped into one of two processing tanks. We would make biodiesel and then have the tank sit for a day to settle out the glycerin. We would pump out the layer of glycerin and it would still have a lard and sometimes fryer smell.
I love the idea and I want it to work, but my soap smells funny even over top of essential oils and it turns to mush quickly in the shower. I even did hot process with 0% superfat then added some coconut oil after cooking to try to achieve saponification of all recycled oil and then create a clean superfat. But the finished product is not ideal, i.e. soft and smelly. Any recommendations?
It really depends on what was cooked in the oil, if they burnt the oil or used it too long, and how clean was the oil before you used it. If it stinks when you started it might not be any good to use for soap.
@@unclejonssoap thanks for the reply! I got in touch with Laura Kneib of FROG soaps and she gave me some good tips, I'm excited to try again
@@caitlinchew6170 What were the tips?
@@Mr3LMAR cold process, start with 50% recycled oil and 50% virgin oils then increase recycled oil if it comes out well, 0% superfat
It's great, but I'm concerned about the oil or whatever waste that this soap produces while using it. Isn't it like pouring small amounts of oil down the drain?
It's no different than any other real soap honestly. Now, if you make any soap with too much support fat, it can cause some minor build up issues. Just a matter of making it correctly 😁
An old t shirt might work better as a filter?
Do you have any photos of what the bars of soap looks like after a few months? Did you have any DOS?
I'll try to remember to take pics or do a quick video. No dos 😁
Video is up!😁
What size mold is it you're using ?
My mold is 3.25" wide x 2.5" high x 21" long ( all inside dimensions). That's the size that works well for me since I cut my bars 7/8" thick.
Awesome 👍
I heard you can filter the oil by putting plain flour on top wait for the flour to sink to the bottom and then pour off the oil,
I havent tried it personally would be interested if anyone else has.
Yeah, if like to try that too.
This works. I did this several years back when my husband experimented with frying the A thanksgiving turkey. There was so much oil left over. I just could not see all that oil go to waste! I made some fantastic bars with peanut oil that year.
Can you add a scent to this type of soap?
You sure can! It's not necessary but it won't hurt it either. Once the oil is cleaned just treat it like any other soap oil 😁
Get some old oil from your local Long John Silver's. Smell like the pier without being there!
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Would there be a chance of shell allergy from the shrimp? Would it be safe?
Do you have to let it sit for like 30 days?
Could you scent this with anything?
have you made soap using potassium hydroxide?
I have. The issue is that it makes a sister soap. So, you would need to salt the soap in order to harden it. Just like making soap with wood ash.
my oil is vegan from only fries and is not dark like yours in video.we change it often. i just made this recipe in video. still smells like fryer oil 1 day later. will smell go away?
Possibly. Some of that depends on how much super fat you have. The only way to really know is to just keep letting it cure. Did you add any fragrance to the soap?
Hi what kind of lye do you use is it food grade or just regular
It's food grade but totally unnecessary. There's really not enough of a difference to worry about it in soap. It the company I buy from, this seems to be the only type they deal with.
Hey, I love your videos!
A question: normally a recipe for used oil is the same to a "unused" oil? In other words, if have use vegetable oil could use a recipe for unused vegetable oil? Or the heat exposure changes priorities? :) (Thanks in advance).
I've always used the same recipe like the oil is new. No problems to date😁