How do you make soap from ordinary household products?
Soapmaking requires lye, which is no longer a common household product, but is readily available. Some soaps are made from glycerine, also probably not in your cupboard, but easy to get. A few other soaps, like beeswax soap, are also made with easy to get ingredients, or you can purchase ready-to-make products from a local craft store to produce your own. Lye soap is by far the most time consuming, and diffucult to get correct. Lye is also dangerous to work with, and many precautions need to be taken, especially if you have small children. Glycerine and beeswax soaps are the easiest to do, especially if you purchase the ready-to make varieties and then add colors, scents, and pour into molds. This http://waltonfeed.com/old/soaphome.html contains a wealth of information as well as links to other soapmaking sites.
