If you’re a DIYer who enjoys crafting or making your own cosmetics, like hair masks or body scrub, you might be tempted to try your hand at making hand, bath, or decorative soap, especially if your ...

In a world filled with commercial soap products made of a seemingly endless list of unidentifiable ingredients, there's something uniquely satisfying about making your own soap at home. What’s more, ...

Many people thinking of spinning, weaving, knitting, soap-making and other home-based crafts as fancy hobbies rather than attributes of simple, self-reliant living, but it all depends on the context.

If you’ve wondered how to make lemon soap at home, you’ll be glad to know this is one of the easiest homemade soap recipes to start with. This easy lemon soap recipe uses natural ingredients, creates ...

TWO OF THE EUCALYPTUS. YOU CAN GO HALF-AND-HALF IF YOU WANT, BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT SPEARMINT IS SO STRONG THAT I'M JUST TRYING TO EVEN IT OUT A LITTLE BIT. AS WE MIX IS, WE WILL CHECK BACK IN THE ...

In The Best Natural Homemade Soaps(Robert Rose, 2014), Mar Gómez offers 40 recipes for simple, luxurious soaps based on three essential ingredients: water, olive oil and caustic soda. Gómez adds a ...

For more than a year now, I've been hearing of people who make their own laundry detergent. Friends, relatives and even some of my co-workers have tried it. They rave about how inexpensive the ...