Making Soap from Used Cooking Oil - REMIX EL BARRIO

🧼 Dulces de Piel, Making Soap From Used Cooking Oil

Dulces de Piel is a project by Clara Davis created in response to the open call, Remix el Barrio, by SISCODE - El Barri Circular, to reimagine what is possible to make with locally produced food waste. This recipe is easy to follow and with the right ingredients and equipment can be done in your home kitchen!

✍️Ingredients:
50g used vegetable oil
70g sodium hydroxide
150g distilled water

✍️Equipment:
metal strainer
scale
2 metal spoons
silicone mold or recycled plastic packaging
blender
blender vessel
glass jar
pot
stove

SISCODE is an EU research project consisting of 10 labs and makerspaces across Europe – ‘El Barri Circular’ being the pilot of Fab Lab Barcelona. Remix El Barrio, an initiative from El Barri Circular, looks to understand how we might reimagine food waste in our local neighbourhood of Poblenou. This highlighted recipe is one of nine featured during an exhibition of designers and makers transforming food waste into new biomaterials. At Fab Lab Barcelona, our research areas look to further explore the role of maker spaces in creating a more circular economy - thinking global, acting local.

👀Check our some of our related research and education programs below.

This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 788217.

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[angelacalixto]

Hello, this recipe has an error! The cooking oil must be 500g in the formulation, please correct the video! Make natural sops is wonderfull, but can be dangerous if isn't correct. I'm a pharmacist and i have been make soaps since 2012.

[Cindyg]

I would clean cooking oil first by heating it and adding corn starch then straining. So soap does not smell like French fries.

[miacalista]

is there no side effects for the skin when using this?

[beachbag]

Where can we use these kinds of soap? For cleaning? Body?

[mahsheenman]

Instructions unclear: I now smell of fried potatoes and meats.

[garciama.vittoriaasuncionb]

Hello.

Can we use a hand mixer? We don’t have any vessel blender available.

Hope you can reply soon. Thank you.

[eliciabonnie]

Why the heck would boil the water before putting the hydroxide? Never ever have I seen that... I doubt the amount of oil you show matches the quantity you say... Looks like way more than that...