Can someone give me ingredients on making soap?
Lye, animal fat (human is the softest), soda ash or potash to give you something to scrub with. Lava brand uses pumic. Some soaps have jojoba oil or shea butter or glycerin or olive oil. Traditional soapmakers do not consider the last two ingredents to be actual soap products. In the movie Fight Club, the star Brad Pitt makes homemade soap from fat he steals that has been liposuctioned out of humans. He uses the hot method instead of the cold method to make the soap. According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap “Soap is a surfactant used in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning that historically comes in solid bars but also in the form of a thick liquid, especially from soap dispensers in public washrooms. Historically, soap has been composed of sodium (soda ash) or potassium (potash) salts of fatty acids derived by reacting fat with lye in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by
