Pine tar was used as a preservative on the bottoms of traditional Nordic-style skis until modern synthetic materials replaced wood in their construction. It also helped waxes adhere, which aided such skis’ grip and glide.

Hi, I'm Stephanie! Welcome to Hello Glow, where you'll learn all about making clean beauty products with herbal ingredients and essential oils. Read on for our best tips, techniques, and recipes for natural beauty. Because pine tar has a really pungent scent, it’s nice to create other scent layers that complement the masculine, woody fragrance with essential oils. However, some essential oils actually speed up time to trace. Spicy oils like cinnamon, ginger, and thyme are notorious for speeding up time to trace, which is great in some recipes, but less so in this one. Instead, I like adding essential oils that work well to balance the pine tar and either don’t impact trace or slow it down. Lavender is great for slowing trace and balancing out the pine tar scent because of its lightly floral, delicately soothing properties. Other decelerating and complimentary essential oils for pine tar soap recipes include: Pine tar soap has been used to relieve itching, inflammation, and excessive skin cell growth in a huge range of skin conditions, including:

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Auson’s pine tar just says: “Genuine Pine Tar is produced from resinous pine wood. It contains all ingredients of rosin and fatty acids and their conversion products such as rosin oil, oxidized acids, esters, highboiling terpenes and fatty alcohols, etc, which characterizes a pine tar of high quality.” This pine tar soap recipe is easy to make following a traditional cold-process lye soap method. It’s is a natural deep pore cleaner that’s been used for centuries to help skin issues like psoriasis, eczema, dandruff, insect bites, and other minor irritations. Mix at low temperatures. You can try your batch with lye at room temperature and the oils at about 85 degrees. If you want to watch a soap making picture tutorial, you can read this article. You can also watch the YouTube video included in this article right here, where I show you step-by-step how to make this pine tar soap recipe. Finally, if you’re ready to learn ALL things natural soap making, consider taking my thorough Natural Soap Making Course!

absolutely – just make sure you run the recipe through the lye calculator again, just to be sure that the lye is A-OK. Cedarwood Soap, Handmade Soap, Cold Process Soap, Natural Soap, Artisan Soap, Indigo Soap, Moisturizing Soap Bar, Bar Soap, Vegan Soap CAMPFIRE PINE - bar soap - handmade - soap- pine, smoky soap - 2 sizes: 1 oz and 5 oz - Shea butter- goats milk - pine - gift - eco friendlyIf you’d like some texture, adding some rosemary powder or juniper berry powder would be a nice additive too. And…it’s also helpful with some of these skin issues as well. It also smells very nice. Here’s why I added each of the different oils to my pine tar soap recipe: Pine tar is made by burning the wood of pine trees in an enclosed container until it breaks down into its component parts: charcoal and tar. The tar is then siphoned off so it can be used for other things, like as a wood preservative, baseball bat sealant, and bath and body treatment—random, right? You might be wondering why there’s no palm oil in my recipe, which makes a nice hard bar. I choose not to use palm for sustainability reasons, so you won’t find palm oil in any of my recipes. I remedy the problem of always obtaining a hard bar by using coconut oil then off-setting with conditioning and moisturizing oils. The screen shot of the recipe as run through a lye calculator shows you the qualities of the soap. I love using this calculator because it gives me an idea of how my soap will turn out in various ways. If I don’t like a certain number/quality, I make adjustments to the recipe before I make it. However, if companies specifically said their pine tar was okay for soap or cosmetic or even human use at all, they’d fall under different rules and regulatory agencies & it would prove costly for them, so they aren’t going to do that. Hi Barbara! To figure out what size mold you need for a recipe, you can add the weight of the water + lye + oils (counting pine tar in this case).

If you’re new to soap making, then I wouldn’t advise making any adjustments to this recipe, though, as this one is designed for beginners and experienced soap makes alike and is a good compromise between ease of production, soap quality, and time to trace. CAUTION: During this stage, the lye water releases strong fumes that you should avoid inhaling, so make sure you're working in a well-ventilated area and that you don't get too close to the pot. Step 4: Let it Cool You need decent chemical-resistant gloves and some (not at all flattering) safety goggles. Now, I know that sounds like overkill, but you’re working with lye, and it can cause you some serious damage. So be smart and gear up! Tip 4: Treat the Pine Tar as Oil Stir the 1 teaspoon of salt into the cold water. This is to help the soap release from the mold easier and is especially helpful if you’re using silicone molds.Step 2: Allow the lye + water mixture to cool for at least 45 minutes to one hour if not longer. Once cool, add the sodium lactate and stir to distribute. For the best results when making this pine tar soap recipe, mix it at low temperatures. The lye solution should be at room temperature, while the oils should be no warmer than 85F (30C). Tip 6: Use Slow-to-Trace Oils

Jan, thank you for sharing your recipe! I want to give it a try but am wondering what percentage do you SF at? Ty 4 sharing this. Please, can you tell me if it is possible replace castor oïl for another vegetal oïl? Before World War II, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended the use of pine tar soap as an insect repellent because it was both effective and pleasant smelling. Pine tar is effective at repelling insects because it contains aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds give pine tar its strong smell, but also make it an excellent insect repellent! 5. Helps to soothe poison ivy and oakPine tar is a form of wood tar produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar.