I sold my first tray of lavender bars at a Saturday market for 6 dollars each, about three years after I started stirring lye in my kitchen.
Making soap with soap flakes is the no-lye, kid-safe method: mix soap flakes, bought or grated from a pure bar, with a little warm water until they bind
My worst crumbling loaf came from thinking that if hard oils make a hard bar, more of them would make a better one. I have been making soap for about eleven
Soap on a rope is made by embedding a looped cord into a bar so it can hang and dry between uses. You tie the rope into a knotted loop, suspend it in the
The first time I made a bar for my sister’s terrier, I reached for tea tree oil on autopilot, the same oil I put in my own cleansing bars, and caught
Soap cupcakes are made in two parts: a soap cake base poured into cupcake liners, and a stiff soap frosting whipped up and piped on top with a star tip.
I fell for a jar of jewel-purple mica years ago, stirred it into a cold process batch expecting that same glittering color, and unmolded a flat, grayish
Infused oil for soap is a carrier oil steeped with a dried botanical, either warmed in a slow cooker for a few hours or left in a sunny jar for weeks
A friend once told me the bar I gave her melted away in a week, and when I saw her bathroom I understood why: it was sitting in a shallow puddle in a flat dish.
Confetti soap is made by chopping or grating colorful soap into small pieces, chilling them, spraying them with rubbing alcohol, and setting them into