Thanks for showing your experiments. After seeing this I looked up some other stuff about extracting lanolin, and it seems like the best way is to clean it in very cold soapy water first, rinse it very well, still with very cold water. Then, to get a cleaner lanolin, soak the wool in very hot water WITHOUT soap. Once the wool is out, keep the water, stir it--not to mix it, but to create a whirlpool effect so the dirt falls to the bottom. Let it sit and cool undisturbed, and when cool the lanolin should rise to the top so you can skim it off. This should produce a cleaner lanolin.
Many thanks for your comment😀 So fabulous that there are more people out there trying to figure this out. I'm sure that part of the key to a more successful lanolin harvest must be in good cleaning of the wool first, but won't a mild soap like you suggest dissolve the lanolin in the wash water? Again, thank you very much for the message, and best wishes for a continued good week for you 🙂
My wife and I have owned sheep for 3 years and we have been trying to extract lanolin this entire time. We've scoured every corner of the internet this whole time and your video has answered all our questions. Thanks so much!
I think you will have better results if you remove more dirt at the beginning. Instead of a quick cold water rinse, let it soak several hours, or overnight, changing the water every few hours. A lot of dirt can come out this way.
Thank you very much for the good advice. ☺️ I read before I started that some of the lanolin would dissolve even in cold water, so I didn't dare do anything other than a quick rinse in cold water. But when I will try again, I will definitely follow your advice and try a more thorough and longer rinsing process.🙂 Thank you 😊
There's another video and she doesn't go to detail but when she put the wool in the pot water didn't go brown. So I think she washed it on cold water until no more dirt came out.
Thank you so much for the super nice comment❤️ So great that you liked the video☺️ I see you have home school for the kids, it's so impressive, I'm full of admiration for anyone who manages it❤️
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing. I agree with others that a good cold wash with soap would get rid of most of the brownness and impurities. Good idea to use the lanolin as a leather conditioner. I might try it. For a while, I didn't scour the lanolin from my fleeces. I just gave them a cold soap wash. Thus made the fleeces clean and bright, with lots of lanolin still in there. Doing a similar thing to your fleece and boiling the wool may work. Also, I noticed with two Romney sheep fleeces I had, the clear yellow lanolin dripped right out and collected at the bottom of the bag it was in. I had probably 1/4th of a cup (idk in mL) at the bottom of the bag without trying. It might be worth noting which of your sheep produces the most lanolin, so you can use their fleece for this. (I don't own sheep. I just buy fleeces occasionally.) Was the wool any good after you boiled it? Or was it unusable for spinning or felting?
You have a very interesting point about the lanolin falling off in the bag. I've just sheared the sheep here and some really have so much lanolin on their skin that I can scrape it off. It is clear, the quantities will not be so large, but the work effort is very much less😅 I only used the wool for felting afterwards, but it didn't seem completely useless for spinning, a bit more brittle in the fibres.
What a wonderful process, im going to try it with the last wool i have. May i ask what breed wool you used? Do you think that some sheep breeds will give a cleaner lanolin ? Thank you for your tutorial.
Hello there, we have what is called "Villsau" in Norwegian, directly translated into English "wild sheep". Some people also call it Old Norse sheep. I think the breed of sheep and how often it is sheared can have something to say and especially the amount of lanolin in the wool. We only shear once a year and it was an extra ugly wool I chose. Good luck with the project 🙂 I'll be happy to hear how it went🐑😀
I think the issue of the color of the final product is a result of not cleaning the wool enough times before boiling. I think the consistency looks very good, though. :)
So cool with blackberry ink☺️ We will probably use this lanolin for leather care, especially for the leather boots I live in during the summer and for sore skin for the animals. If I manage to purify the lanolin further, it will also become skin care products, 🙂
@@wildandwoolly You are fantastic,I just took my 3 Jack Russell terriers down my fields for a walk,Dora is like a train engine she could pull a cart,no trouble,no baby goats yet,but maybe soon,Katie is due in or around the 11th of March. The blackberry ink is very easy,I just bought a beautiful vintage fountain pen on.catawiki but the courier delivered it to someome else,crazy world..please God I will get my fountain pen soon. I ordered a milk separator from Francr for making goats butter it should arrive in about 6 to 7 weeks please God. I will hopefully do my garden,sourdough and soap making today,have a blessed day,Siv and Soren..hugs,Fiona
It sounds like you have a rich weekend 🙂 The dogs sound lovely, have you bred them yourself?❤️ Hope both goat kittens and pen find their way to you soon. Wow so fun with a milk separator!! Do you get a lot of goat's milk? We mostly let the lambs get the sheep's milk themselves but had a dairy sheep one year, got an incredible 2 liters of milk a day at most, it was fun 🙂🐑 We wish you a blessed weekend ahead ❤️
@@wildandwoolly Thank you Siv,hope you are having a lovely Sunday,I am baking Czernowitcher Sourdough Challah bread,it is like brioche,baby goats have not arrived yet and I got my beautiful fountain pen,my rooster is bullying a weaker hen so I have her in a house on her own and put honey with lavdnder and thyme oils on her neck.Roosters can be very strong,hens too! My goats give between 2 and 3 litres each a day after the kids are weaned from them,I have 20 litres of goats milk in a big can in my freezer and have used a lot of milk that I had i the freezer from milking last year,so they are great milkers,Hugs,Fiona
@@wildandwoolly I bred my oldest Jack Russell bitch with a neighbouring huntsman's dog and had 6 puppies but only 5 lived and one was killed on my lane and I sold one and gave one to the huntsman..hugs,Fiona
Many thanks for the questions 🙂 I washed or rather rinsed the wool in cold water first. It is possible that a more thorough wash would have helped, but I am very unsure how much of the lanolin ended up with the rinse water even in this little experiment. The rinsing water felt texturally like soapy water with dissolved fat. If you try and have more success, please give me feedback 🙂🙂
Hi, and thanks for the question. Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer because I've only used the wool for felting, but it seems less damaged than after washing with soap and was still relatively flexible in the fibers, so I would think that it can be spun, if not the strongest quality. But I'm not entirely sure.
Awww GROSS!! I would have never thought an emollient I been using for decades came from animals hair???? How is that even possible? Why does it have it? Uuugh!
You learn all your life😅 It's probably because it's a very effective and natural emulsifier that it's so widespread in skin products😊 In sheep, the lanolin ensures good skin and wool health, so it must have been some clever people a long time ago who thought that maybe it was good for people too😊
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Weee finely someone is really doing this at home. I think the result look great🙂😊🐑
Thank you so much ☺️
Thanks for showing your experiments. After seeing this I looked up some other stuff about extracting lanolin, and it seems like the best way is to clean it in very cold soapy water first, rinse it very well, still with very cold water. Then, to get a cleaner lanolin, soak the wool in very hot water WITHOUT soap. Once the wool is out, keep the water, stir it--not to mix it, but to create a whirlpool effect so the dirt falls to the bottom. Let it sit and cool undisturbed, and when cool the lanolin should rise to the top so you can skim it off. This should produce a cleaner lanolin.
Many thanks for your comment😀 So fabulous that there are more people out there trying to figure this out. I'm sure that part of the key to a more successful lanolin harvest must be in good cleaning of the wool first, but won't a mild soap like you suggest dissolve the lanolin in the wash water? Again, thank you very much for the message, and best wishes for a continued good week for you 🙂
My wife and I have owned sheep for 3 years and we have been trying to extract lanolin this entire time. We've scoured every corner of the internet this whole time and your video has answered all our questions. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for the heartwarming comment.🙂 We have also really wondered, searched all over for information and yes, finally tried. ☺️
Very interesting. Thank you!
I think you will have better results if you remove more dirt at the beginning. Instead of a quick cold water rinse, let it soak several hours, or overnight, changing the water every few hours. A lot of dirt can come out this way.
Thank you very much for the good advice. ☺️ I read before I started that some of the lanolin would dissolve even in cold water, so I didn't dare do anything other than a quick rinse in cold water. But when I will try again, I will definitely follow your advice and try a more thorough and longer rinsing process.🙂 Thank you 😊
There's another video and she doesn't go to detail but when she put the wool in the pot water didn't go brown.
So I think she washed it on cold water until no more dirt came out.
Is was incredible to see and learn!
Thank you so much for the super nice comment❤️ So great that you liked the video☺️ I see you have home school for the kids, it's so impressive, I'm full of admiration for anyone who manages it❤️
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing.
I agree with others that a good cold wash with soap would get rid of most of the brownness and impurities. Good idea to use the lanolin as a leather conditioner. I might try it.
For a while, I didn't scour the lanolin from my fleeces. I just gave them a cold soap wash. Thus made the fleeces clean and bright, with lots of lanolin still in there. Doing a similar thing to your fleece and boiling the wool may work.
Also, I noticed with two Romney sheep fleeces I had, the clear yellow lanolin dripped right out and collected at the bottom of the bag it was in. I had probably 1/4th of a cup (idk in mL) at the bottom of the bag without trying. It might be worth noting which of your sheep produces the most lanolin, so you can use their fleece for this. (I don't own sheep. I just buy fleeces occasionally.)
Was the wool any good after you boiled it? Or was it unusable for spinning or felting?
You have a very interesting point about the lanolin falling off in the bag. I've just sheared the sheep here and some really have so much lanolin on their skin that I can scrape it off. It is clear, the quantities will not be so large, but the work effort is very much less😅
I only used the wool for felting afterwards, but it didn't seem completely useless for spinning, a bit more brittle in the fibres.
Wow, that's a lot of lanolin from just one fleece, thanks for answeing so many questions I had about this!
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Sooo interesting. I would love to try this someday. Thanks for this!!!!
You are very welcome 😊 Hope you get to try it 🙂
Thanks for this video! I've subscribed. Can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! :)
So nice that you liked the video and got answers to some questions😃 Thanks a lot for the comments, I hope you find more you like on the channel 🙂🙂
What a wonderful process, im going to try it with the last wool i have.
May i ask what breed wool you used? Do you think that some sheep breeds will give a cleaner lanolin ?
Thank you for your tutorial.
Hello there, we have what is called "Villsau" in Norwegian, directly translated into English "wild sheep". Some people also call it Old Norse sheep. I think the breed of sheep and how often it is sheared can have something to say and especially the amount of lanolin in the wool. We only shear once a year and it was an extra ugly wool I chose. Good luck with the project 🙂 I'll be happy to hear how it went🐑😀
I think the issue of the color of the final product is a result of not cleaning the wool enough times before boiling. I think the consistency looks very good, though. :)
Thank you so much for the feedbacks☺️🐑
Siv,that is wonderful,what do you do with the lanolin,then?
I made blackberry ink a few years ago..xx
So cool with blackberry ink☺️ We will probably use this lanolin for leather care, especially for the leather boots I live in during the summer and for sore skin for the animals. If I manage to purify the lanolin further, it will also become skin care products, 🙂
@@wildandwoolly You are fantastic,I just took my 3 Jack Russell terriers down my fields for a walk,Dora is like a train engine she could pull a cart,no trouble,no baby goats yet,but maybe soon,Katie is due in or around the 11th of March.
The blackberry ink is very easy,I just bought a beautiful vintage fountain pen on.catawiki but the courier delivered it to someome else,crazy world..please God I will get my fountain pen soon.
I ordered a milk separator from Francr for making goats butter it should arrive in about 6 to 7 weeks please God.
I will hopefully do my garden,sourdough and soap making today,have a blessed day,Siv and Soren..hugs,Fiona
It sounds like you have a rich weekend 🙂 The dogs sound lovely, have you bred them yourself?❤️ Hope both goat kittens and pen find their way to you soon. Wow so fun with a milk separator!! Do you get a lot of goat's milk? We mostly let the lambs get the sheep's milk themselves but had a dairy sheep one year, got an incredible 2 liters of milk a day at most, it was fun 🙂🐑 We wish you a blessed weekend ahead ❤️
@@wildandwoolly Thank you Siv,hope you are having a lovely Sunday,I am baking Czernowitcher Sourdough Challah bread,it is like brioche,baby goats have not arrived yet and I got my beautiful fountain pen,my rooster is bullying a weaker hen so I have her in a house on her own and put honey with lavdnder and thyme oils on her neck.Roosters can be very strong,hens too!
My goats give between 2 and 3 litres each a day after the kids are weaned from them,I have 20 litres of goats milk in a big can in my freezer and have used a lot of milk that I had i the freezer from milking last year,so they are great milkers,Hugs,Fiona
@@wildandwoolly I bred my oldest Jack Russell bitch with a neighbouring huntsman's dog and had 6 puppies but only 5 lived and one was killed on my lane and I sold one and gave one to the huntsman..hugs,Fiona
Tesekkur ederim hep merak etmisimdir bunu😊
You are very welcome 🙂
I wonder if you wash the wool in cold water first, would it make it cleaner without washing out all the lanolin?
Many thanks for the questions 🙂 I washed or rather rinsed the wool in cold water first. It is possible that a more thorough wash would have helped, but I am very unsure how much of the lanolin ended up with the rinse water even in this little experiment. The rinsing water felt texturally like soapy water with dissolved fat. If you try and have more success, please give me feedback 🙂🙂
Is the wool usable after the extraction process?
Hi, and thanks for the question. Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer because I've only used the wool for felting, but it seems less damaged than after washing with soap and was still relatively flexible in the fibers, so I would think that it can be spun, if not the strongest quality. But I'm not entirely sure.
Awww GROSS!! I would have never thought an emollient I been using for decades came from animals hair???? How is that even possible? Why does it have it? Uuugh!
You learn all your life😅 It's probably because it's a very effective and natural emulsifier that it's so widespread in skin products😊 In sheep, the lanolin ensures good skin and wool health, so it must have been some clever people a long time ago who thought that maybe it was good for people too😊
@@wildandwoolly it's an emulsifier too?! Wow I am learning something new every day. I'm going to have to give it a try.