In The Best Natural Homemade Soaps(Robert Rose, 2014), Mar Gómez offers 40 recipes for simple, luxurious soaps based on three essential ingredients: water, olive oil and caustic soda. Gómez adds a ...

Learn how to render fat to make soap at home from tallow and lard. This frugal use of extra animal fat produces enough soap for a family of four for one year. Our family prides itself on being frugal.

Making soap seems like an arcane, ancient craft that few people know how to do. But the secrets of how to make soap are more within reach than you may think. Many do-it-yourself projects aren’t worth ...

I know what you're probably thinking—why would anyone want to make soap at home? Especially when you can just run to the store and buy some body wash or bar soap. Well, IMO, the coolest thing about ...

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own soap from scratch, this easy cold process Bastille soap recipe is the perfect place to start. It’s made from two simple oils—olive oil and coconut oil—and ...

FENTON, Mich. (WJRT) - Buff City Soap, which recently opened in Fenton, is on a mission to make natural-based soaps that smell really nice too. Maddie Shipman, the area developer of Buff City Soap, ...

Learn how to make all-natural baby wash with a simple recipe using gentle ingredients like Castile soap, glycerin, and fractionated coconut oil. This wash is great for sensitive skin.

Castile soap is a vegetable-based cleaner, available in both bar and liquid forms. It is popular as a body soap but is also useful for certain household chores. Castile soap may have some advantages ...

In 2004, Greg Colden and Marty Corrigan left their home in Oakland to live on what is now Kokoleka Lani Farm, on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Among the cacao trees on their 5-acre farm, ...