Why Is Homemade Lye Soap So Special?
Tommy Smith There is a lot of folklore surrounding homemade lye soap. Most stories came from our grandparents who were very familiar with lye soap making. One of the most common tales was that it was a cure for poison ivy. From others we heard that it was so harsh it would take your skin off. Because the same bar with which we bathed, was also used to for laundry, we were also told, “nothing cleans clothes like lye soap”. We might not need a cure for bed mites nowadays, there are still many suffering from such common skin maladies as eczema and psoriasis. It has been reported that lye soap relieves psoriasis the symptoms of these afflictions in relatively short order. It may just be that discontinuing the use of store bought soap, which is laden with chemicals and preservatives was enough to start the healing process. The difference between lye soap that was made by our ancestors and lye soap today is that we have exact measurements that will make the desired bar much more easily. You
