I'm Kind Of Getting Into This Soap-Making Thing

By looking up the methods and ingredients myself, I'm learing a lot more than when Benita just tells me about it. It's a very interesting subject that is very historical.

The method that Benita made her soap with is the cold process method, meaning the oils and lye are mixed together as they cool - no cooking is involved. Anyone who remembers "The Beverly Hillbillies" probably remembers Granny standing over a pot in the back yard making lye soap - another method, but not cold process.

This is a website I found that is pretty interesting: http://www.certified-lye.com/index.html


What I'm finding out is that we should not have used the soap the other day - the lye was still harmful at that point in the process. Also, the smell is supposed to go away as the soap cures.