Soap making
This blog is long overdue as I’ve had many friends ask me how I make my own soap. I make my own soap for personal use, but I also love to give them as gifts to friends and family. You can always find a recipe for soap online, there are thousands. I have more than one recipe that I use but today I’m going to share with you my favorite one. Goats milk herbal soap. Now, when making my soaps from scratch I use lye, which I really don’t like handling and I’m told many others don’t as well. But if you want to get technical, the FDA specifically says if it doesn’t contain lye it’s not actually soap because in order for the saponification process to happen, well, you need sodium hydroxide (lye). We’ll skip the semantics though for brevity sake. Lye is a harsh chemical that can cause severe burns to your body if you aren’t careful and I caution first time soap makers to do research before using it. Luckily, this is an easy recipe that does not require you to handle lye in its chemical stat...