I want to make soap. Can you tell me how?

Below is the method on making a soap. Hope that helps. Basic Method [A. This first write-up is taken from Hulda Clarkís book, "The Cure for All Diseases," pages 529-530.] A small plastic dishpan, about 10" x 12" A glass or enamel 2-quart saucepan 1 can of lye (sodium hydroxide), 12 ounces 3 pounds of lard Plastic gloves [really; use eye-protection too] Water 1. Pour 3 cups of very cold water (refrigerate water overnight first) into the 2-quart saucepan. 2. Slowly and carefully add the lye, a little bit at a time, stirring it with the a wooden or plastic utensil. (Use plastic gloves for this; test them for holes first.) Do not breathe the vapor or lean over the container or have children nearby. Above all _use no metal_. The mixture will get very hot. In olden days, a sassafras branch was used to stir, imparting a fragrance and insect deterrent for mosquitoes, lice, fleas and ticks. 3. Let cool at least one hour in a safe place. Meanwhile, the unwrapped lard should be warming up to room temperature in the plastic dishpan. 4. Slowly and carefully, pour the lye solution into the dishpan with the lard. The lard will melt. Mix thoroughly, at least 15 minutes, until it looks like thick pudding. 5. Let it set until the next morning, then cut it into bars. It will get harder after a few days. Then package. If you wish to make soap based on olive oil, use about 48 ounces. It may need to harden for a week.

I found several sites on the net by typing in making soap, however when i lived in Vermont we used pigfat, and lye. I think I remember someone crushing lilac juice into the mix.

I am a vegetarian... so I don't like doing the cold process way as it usually requires some type of fat. My fiance and I used to do Melt and Pour glycerin soap. We bought large chunks of clear glycerin and white glycerin and sometimes olive oil glycerin from a whole sale place. Then you use a double boiler (or as we did a huge glass meassuring cup of chunks of glycerin set inside a pot of boiling water). Once the glycerin is melted you can add fragrance, dried herbs or flowers, color, glitter, whatever. You pour into the molds (you can get all of this stuff at Michaels or a craft store) and wait for it to harden (usually 15 minutes). If you don't want to bother with molds you can pour it all into a loaf pan and then slice the loaf when it cools.

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I went through a fase of making soaps but never used lard. I either melted down soap pieces that would otherwise have been thrown away or used lux soap flakes melted down with drops of rose oil or some other essence, shape into squares using wooden or plastice spatulas and leave to dry on greaseproof paper.