You Gotta Know Your Bunnnies - A New Way of Looking at Lye in Soap Making
Tuesday March 11, 2008
I've taught a lot of soap making classes over the years. One of the key concepts that people sometimes have a lot of confusion over is the whole idea of lye and oils mixing together to make soap - and what this whole thing called "superfatting" is. I've shown chemical diagrams, I've demonstrated different recipes...but the best teaching tool I've ever come across is a great website I found a while ago by Jennifer P. Davis that boils the whole thing down to bunnies, wolves, sheep and collies. It may sound silly, but it's one of the clearest explanations of the soap making process and superfatting I've ever encountered!

Comments
i hate this diagram b/c my rabbit was killed by a dog last year. i find it horrifying, but to each his own…