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Have you ever wondered what the best way is to make soap if you are living off the land? The hard-working pioneers had to be resourceful and learn how to make their own soap from wood ashes and waste fats. ...

Making your own soap at home is a rewarding and frugal endeavor. There are many kinds of soap that you can make, but if you’re going to make a soap for everyday use, then you can’t go wrong with goat’s ...

A few years ago, tired of the cost and potential environmental hazards of commercial laundry soap, I started making my own detergent from washing soda, borax, and Fels-Naptha bars. It wasn’t long before I started wondering about making soap from ...

October 19, 2012 Making lye soap the old fashioned way, using wood ash lye water and fresh lard, and adding natural fragrances. Previous Video

People have been making and using soap for nearly 5,000 years, and possibly much longer than that. At around 3,000 B.C. enterprising Babylonians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians began making simple soaps to use for sanitizing cooking implements. These days, we rely ...