The easiest soap recipe for beginners is made from Crisco(trademark) oil. This recipe is perfect for the new soap maker as most of the ingredients are easily obtainable at the local grocery store or made using the materials you have at home.

Easy Olive oil face bar

How to color soaps with natural plant material.

About two years ago lye was everywhere to be had, including the supermarkets. Then mysteriously all the lye disappeared from the shelves of the supermarket. The challenge now is to find new sources to get lye. Here is a list of places in the USA to purchase lye for soapmaking.

Water plays an importat part in soapmaking. It is the medium through which the chemical process of soap making occurs. Understanding why, and the amount of water to use will enable you to speed or slow the drying of soap bars as well as prevent seizing during the tracing process.

Information on adding silk products to soap and sources to buy silk protein and silk fiber for soaps.

Pine Tar Soap is reputed to be good for psoriasis. Recipe and information.

Using sodium lactate to make firmer soaps

A list of soap making classes available in the USA, Canada and Abroad

What is superfatting? And why should you superfat soap. Superfatting soap produces a more moisturizing soap and decreases the pH in the final soap making it more gentle to skin.