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Soap Making Safety - Important Tips, Rules, and Procedures

Making your own hand made soap can be wonderfully fun and safe--if you follow some basic safety procedures and tips.
How to Make Lye From Scratch Using Wood Ashes and Water
Few developments in the history of soap have made quite the difference that laboratory-made lye becoming available made. But lye wasn't made in large scale labs until the mid 1800s - soap has been around for thousands of years. What did people do before that? They made their lye the "old fashioned" way by leaching water through wood ashes. So if you're in a far corner of our globe and can't get l…
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