How to make lye soap

Here's a step by step tutorial for how to make homemade soap, along with a lye soap recipe, pictures, a video tutorial and helpful tips for making homemade lye soap! This soap is a luxurious treat and it's fun and creative to make your own homemade soap! I also sell my homemade lye soap if you like my examples!

I started my soap making adventure back in the early 1990s. My first batch was plain lye soap. Back then I could make a year's worth of soap for about $8.

If you want to try soap making, this is a very simple, easy-to-use cold process recipe with only three ingredients: lard, lye, and water.

This is the easiest way to make soap without using lye--and it's safe to do with kids. Customize your homemade soap with any scents or colors you like!

Saponification is the chemical process by which the ingredients that make up the typical bar of soap come together. Find out for yourself with our easy lye soap recipe.

Are you new to making lye soap? You probably have lots of questions, especially about that kinda-scary ingredient: LYE. No worries, friend. This piece will answer 8 of the most common questions about making lye soap for beginners, plus give you tips to help you start making soap from scratch. Ready to get your lye questions answered? Pin to save, then click over to my farm blog to get answers to the 8 common questions about making soap with lye for beginners.

This past school year our family took a deep dive into pioneer life. One fictional pioneer account that we read referred to the making of soap with lye made from wood ash and rain water.

Want to make soap but worried about working with lye? Here's how to make soap without lye! (aka melt and pour soap)

In my previous post, I described how to render fat to make lard. In this post, I will show you how turn that lard into homemade lye soap (cold process) that’s better than anything you’l…

Learn how to make lye from ashes for soap-making using a lye-leaching barrel to help filter rainwater through hardwood ashes. Read more.