Learn how to make natural soaps at home with simple recipes and ingredients. Create customised, gentle soaps for your ...

The soap-making process began with pouring clean water into the top of the hopper. The water slowly percolated down through the ashes, emerging at the bottom as a red liquid potash known as lye. The ...

Lye soap is made by boiling a mixture of lye (sodium hydroxide) and animal fats. Lye could be purchased, but most Arkansans seem to have made their own from wood ashes. Almost all the sources specify ...

Area park guide Ellen Cox, knowing the many merits of lye soap, will be the first to tell you, "It's one of those old heritage crafts that we want to make sure continues." While it may take some ...

Recently, there’s been a surge in misinformation online claiming that lye (sodium hydroxide) can be used to deworm goats and other livestock. These claims are not only unsupported by science — they’re ...

In 1976 I was a mushroom-crazed Ybor City hippie/art major/gardener renting the home at 5706 Suwanee in Seminole Heights in Tampa. Many of my neighbors were delightful, wise elderly women who shared ...

CAMDEN, Ala. — It started as a chance to make soap. By the end of two days, a group of middle school students from Camden School of Arts and Technology in Wilcox County would dabble in chemistry, ...

Today I put a thin layer of wood ashes over my vegetable garden, trusting that the potash will enrich the soil with the winter rains. Our Arkansas ancestors did the same thing, but generations of ...