How Do You Make Natural Soap At Home?
Make your own soap with lye that you make at home. This process is not to be done indoors, and you need to wear goggles during this process, but it gives you a feeling of independence and accomplishment every time the soap is used. This also allows you to customize the soap to meet the needs of the people in your home to avoid allergens and select the fragrance used. The hardness changes too, based on the intensity of the lye solution (a sharper lye makes harder soap). Step 1 Extract an essential oil (see our other how-to articles) for smell and add a few drops of it to 3 cups of oil that you have around the house for cooking. The best oils to use are unsaturated oils, like olive oil, since they are already solids at temperatures slightly below room temperature. Step 2 Burn hardwoods (oak, maple, cherry) in your fireplace at a high temperature and only scoop up the white ashes. When you gather 7 cups of white ash from fires throughout the year, you have enough. Step 3 Put a strainer in
