After the tallow is melted you add the other ingredients, let the mixture cool until it’s slightly firm, then whip. Adding liquid oil to solid tallow won’t work.

Maybe this will help answer your question? https://wellnessmama.com/recipes/render-tallow/

It should be very thick so I’m not sure what happened. You can try melting and rewhipping.

You could try purifying it but it may not be as good as the suet tallow. It would definitely need purified first before attempting to make tallow balm.

Is it hard once cooled? Once it hardens some then you whip the tallow. Bear tallow may behave differently than beef though.

My tallow is made from muscle fat not suet .

Are you adding the olive oil after the tallow has already been whipped? It needs to be added to the melted tallow before cooling.

You just want the tallow to be covered by the water. How much water you use doesn’t have to be precise since it will be strained out.

Add rendered tallow, 4-8 cups of water, and 3 Tablespoons of salt to a crockpot. How much water you use depends on how much tallow you have.

WHAT IS THE RATIO OF WATER TO TALLOW? If you have 1 cup of tallow how much water?

Thanks!