Stir it up until blended, then pour into flat box with sides about 3 inches high. Line box with waxed paper and pour in soap.
Let harden a week or more.
Take your bar of soap (we use Dove or store brand like it, because it's more moisturizing), and grate it with a cheese grater.
Pour the water and grated soap into a microwaveable container and cook on high for 3 min.
Remove and stir until all soap bits have melted (put in a bit longer, if needed).
Let it cool, then pour into pumps (leftover from store bought liquid soap), and the remainder in any container with a lid.
Note:
Always make soap before the new moon.
re to make the actual recipe.
Dissolve soaps and detergent
smooth top. With this soap, it takes about 2 to
Put in iron or galvanized pan and let stand for two weeks. Then boil for a few minutes.
If the lard and grease has been used, it doesn't need to stand.
It will cook in a few minutes. After soap cools, cut it in pieces and may be used.
Dissolve lye in water.
Heat grease to 120\u00b0 or until all is melted.
When you mix the water and lye, it will become very hot. Allow to cool to about 80\u00b0 before mixing.
Slowly pour the melted lard into the lye mixture, stirring slowly until the mixture becomes thick like honey.
Pour into a plastic pan, cover with a cloth, let set until cool and cut in squares.
I mix my soap in a plastic bucket.
If you have old grease (bacon), melt and strain before making soap with it.
ust a plain milk gravy recipe, form the sausage into patties
poon.
Cut in the lard (easiest using a pastry cutter
ntil a small amount of soap can be drizzled across the
Mix Fels Naptha soap in a saucepan with 3
Dissolve lye in water.
Let both stand until 90\u00b0.
Use a stone or granite container to make soap in.
Stir lye into fat very slowly, constantly stirring.
Dissolve 1 ounce Borax in 1 cup hot water and add with 1 cup liquid ammonia to mixture 1/2 cup granulated sugar dissolved in warm water and 1 ounce oil citronella.
Mix thoroughly until thick.
Pour into molds and set for a short time.
Cut and lay out to dry.
Ready for use in 10 days.
Put lard and lye in wash pot.
Add water and cook until mixture drips off paddle like fudge.
Pour into porcelain mold. When cooled, put on wooden table and cut.
Makes about 40 bars. This soap is good for acne, ringworm, poison ivy and is excellent for head lice.
Put cold water in a No. 12 washpot and the lye starts the water boiling.
After it boils, a fire is lighted beneath the pot and the other ingredients are added.
The process is called saponification.
You keep stirring the ingredients to give the soap the right texture and smoothness.
The rosin takes out the odor.
Handle it very carefully because lye is dangerous to the eyes.
Dissolve lye in cold water in iron kettle or granite dish pan. Stir with wooden spoon until lye is dissolved.
Do not breathe the fumes from lye water.
When lye water gets cold, pour grease in and stir till it is mixed well.
Sit in cool place until it gets hard.
Then cut and lay on clean wood or cardboard to dry out.
Always make during the old moon.
Make soap on first quarter of the moon.
Put 3 gallons of fat in an old black wash pot.
Add 1 can Red Devil lye.
Bring to a boil.
Boil unti lye eats the meat up.
Pour 1 gallon water in the pot.
Bring to a boil and boil until water boils away.
Dip out and pour into pan.
Let cool.
Cut out blocks of soap.
Shred the bars of soap and set aside.
In a heavy saucepan, over low heat, warm the soy milk and gradually add the shredded soap until mixture is a sticky mass.
Remove the pan from the heat and add the rice bran and jasmine oil.
Stir until the bran is evenly mixed.
Spoon the soap into a mold and let it set for 4 hours or until hardened.
You can double the recipe and use a milk carton for the mold.
Keep 1 cup of the flour out to use this flour to roll out dough with.
Combine lard,flour,baking powder,salt.
In a cup with fork slightly beat egg, vinegar and cold water to make up 1 cup of ingredients
Add egg, water and vinegar to flour mixture form a ball.
Do not overwork dough.
Please, refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour or 24 hrs {this freezes very well} before using for the best result.
Bake at 400 Degrees in a preheated oven for 10 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 350 until pastry is golden brown!
Combine water and baking soda in a glass.
In another glass, combine soap, food coloring and vinegar.
When ready for the eruption, add baking soda solution to the soap/vinegar solution and watch it foam and flow.
Mix all the ingredients together.
Leave to stand for 12 hours and store in a suitable container.
(If you want to tweak this to your liking, remember that you should use about 10 drops of oil per ounce of soap.).