Teach Soap

Greetings
For some time now I have had great success with the following recipe for making soap. However lately it has become more difficult for me to obtain good quality beef tallow.
http://myhealthygreenfamily.com/blog/wo ... nd-tallow/
The question I put forth is what could I replace the beef tallow with that would give me equal and possibly better soap quality?
And once I replace the beef tallow with whatever is suggested do I need to alter the amount of the other ingredients?
Thank you in advance
Ingredients:
44 oz. tallow
20 oz. olive oil
20 oz. coconut oil
11.7 oz. lye
27 oz. goat milk, partially frozen in ice cube-sized chunks (or water, if preferred)
1 oz. essential oil

You can replace it with lard or palm oil in the same amounts, but you need to run your recipe through a lye calculator. I personally love lard in my soaps and find them much milder than using palm.

I get my tallow from Soaper's Choice and it's very nice.

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Have you considered rendering your tallow yourself? I've just relocated to Mexico & get the best kidney suet here, delivered to my door for 5 pesos/kilo (about 25 cents for 2.2 lbs). It's not so much trouble if you have a turkey roaster. Just keep the oven heat low & you'll avoid any "meat" smells... I find what I make is often much cleaner that what's available.

On the other hand, I'm with Linda on the lard. Like tallow in many ways, but it's very nice on the skin. I also find palm-only recipes to be harsh on my hide.

Best of luck!