Readers, this is the fourth of 12 basic homestead skills we’ll be presenting every month throughout 2019 from Kimberlee Bastien’s new book, 52 Homestead Skills. We invite you to join Kimberlee and her ...

“I started messing around with soap after I got my wife a crafting magazine and thought, ‘Hey, we can make soap!’” Jeremy Lugo told me as he donned a pair of black latex gloves in preparation for a ...

People may want to make homemade soap from scratch to suit their personal preferences or so that they can give it away as a handcrafted gift. This article looks at some different methods for making ...

The film details the process of soap making, starting with Carl Mason's laboratory demonstration using fat and sodium hydroxide (lye). It explains the chemical reaction known as saponification, where ...

Soap-makers love to tell the story of how ancient Romans first “discovered” soap by burning animal sacrifices on Mount Sapo, and how the creeks at the bottom of that mythological mountain were the ...