Home Soap Making

I don’t know why I keep making soap. I probably have over a years’ supply now. I’ve got one bar left from my original plain batch last summer, and plenty from my lavender and oatmeal beeswax batches.  But it’s just such a fascinating process. There’s different recipes and techniques to try and my brain is just always scheming about “next batch”.

 

Most recently I tried a recipe for shaving soap. I made some rounds, to go in a shaving mug or bowl, and some bars.

Some home-production projects take a lot of effort for only a little return. (For example–my skill-level of knitting.) But soap-making is a different story. I didn’t find the process to be too difficult to master. So easily in one venture I could spend an hour and my family would be set with soap for a whole year. And soap is soap. Many people use their homemade soap as shampoo, or grate it up and make homemade laundry and dish soap, and with a few special additives I have a soap perfect for replacing shaving cream.

So maybe that’s why I can’t stop.  In life we try a lot of things–creating five-year plans, housekeeping routines, parenting techniques, diet plans– and so few things actually turn out how we want them to.  Maybe that’s why I’m enjoying making soap–it’s predictable and turns out like I want it to.

Give it a try.  .  .  maybe it will turn out for you too.