Eating Bacon Grease

(Jon H ) #1

Beef Tallow skin care is very good for skin, made from animal fat.
Greased hair I don’t even know is, yet I’ll use bacon grease for that.

So, I’ll eat just bacon grease scraped out of a pan, at first, I was thinking it was disgusting. Then in my mouth, it tasted like vanilla. It then melted upon touching my saliva, which made me realized this was in part why people evolved to have saliva. Afterward, I feel high and totally out of the world. My brain got supercharged, they say your brain needs fat anyway.

Now I get A TON OF ENERGY for the bang of my buck. Get some protein, wait some time for the grease to settle, then eat that and I’ll be full! I’ll do this twice a day, so maybe 10 pieces of bacon (and the fat) per day. All 3 meals just that, usually I split it up into 2 sessions of 5.

#2

What a great thing to experience. Thanks for sharing.

(Pete A) #3

Habit: each morning I make 5 slices of bacon in a baking dish, then eat it later including those drippings!

(Edith) #4

I spread bacon grease like butter on pork rinds. I call it bacon butter.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #5

I use tallow on the skin. Funny, it smells a little (nothing bad) in the jar, but by the time it’s applied there’s no smell at all!
Though I save the bacon grease for cooking :crazy_face:

(Alec) #6

I am a bald guy, and after going carnivore and losing all faith in everything Big Business, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine and Big Government were telling me I thought I would make my own skin care product: I got some clean rendered beef fat, mixed with some essential lavender oil, and I use it daily on my head. Works beautifully.

(KM) #7

I’m experimenting with soap nuts again in an effort to keep from washing everything including myself in a chemical bath every day. Maybe I’ll add in a little beef tallow!

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #8

Is it easy to make soap? I’d love tallow soap :smiley:

(Edith) #9

It is easy and fun! You can find some books and recipes online.

(KM) #10

I have done soap making with various natural fats plus lye or potash. It’s definitely a Process, sort of like a chemistry experiment, but I agree, it’s an entertaining thing to do once you practice a bit. You can definitely make simple soap with tallow or lard (I’d rather eat the bacon grease though! Also, salt is not typically a part of soap ingredients, so I don’t know what adjustments would be necessary for “bacon soap”.)

Soap nuts are actual nuts from a tree, they have saponin in them and can be used to make various frothy cleaning / laundry / personal products, but I haven’t had a lot of success with producing anything that works any better than rubbing and hot water. Apparently they only work on the internet. :smirk_cat: Conkers (horse chestnuts) have similar properties but they’re out of season here.

(Alec) #11

It’s interesting… I have stopped using soap every day in the shower for this reason. I do use it when I know I need to scrub off some considerable dirt, but if it’s just a rinsing shower I don’t bother any more.

I’ve also started being more selective when I use deodorant. I use it only when I need it, which as a carnivore is now rarely.

I think as a culture we use far too many chemicals. Most of them I reckon are unnecessary.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #12

Same here. blocking up pores never seemed wise. I’m sure my natural scent has changed since Keto / Carni… much milder I think. My better half hasn’t complained … not about odour anyway. Plenly of other things of course :rofl:

(KM) #13

I make a lot of my own products including deodorant, toothpaste and body powder as well as some cleaning products, but I still consider myself “addicted” to a whole list of manufactured chemical-laden things. I have managed to get almost all the questionable ingredients out of my mouth but the rest of it’s a work in progress!

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #14

We need another thread for this?
Tell me more about the toothpaste KM :grinning:

(Alec) #15

+1.

I’ve stopped using fluoridated toothpaste once I understood what it does to iodine, and subsequently to your thyroid. Got some special paste at the moment, but keen to understand if there is way to make your own. This is the toothpaste I am currently using: non-fluoridated.

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(KM) #16

The biggest issue with my toothpaste is baking soda. It tastes strange and there’s not much to be done about that.

I blend baking soda, hydroxyapatite (that’s just bonemeal ground superfine), a bit of xylitol and a few drops of peppermint or cinnamon oil. If I have any white kaolin clay on hand I may add it, but I’m not sure it does too much, and I have at times used a small amount of tea tree oil which gives it a very Listerine like taste but feels very clean. I usually just leave it that way, which makes a slightly crumbly powder, and dip my dampened toothbrush in it. In summer I sometimes add a bit of coconut oil to make a paste, but that hardens below 76 degrees.

#17

Never heard of the brand but just Google’d the ingredients, you’re on a good one! Hydroxyappetite is the key! Nobody should be using a toothpaste without it. That, and obviously not anything with Fluoride.

I’ve got fingers crossed on this mega lawsuit/thing where our FDA is considering whether they should pull the fluoride from the water or not, I filter it out as far as drinking water and my ice, but doing the whole house is super expensive. I’m sure what I’ve got in place at house level is getting some of it, but not all.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #18

Can it be filtered out? is that reverse osmosis? … I know theres’s still several water co in the UK that still add it. Think mine is OK (Thames)

(KM) #19

On well water here. Who knows what’s in this drinking water, I’m literally sticking my head in the ground about that, but at least it’s not flouride.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #20

gotta be better than anything with flouride, i’m guessing you could get it analized