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Making Homemade Lye Soap

What memories do you recall when homemade soap is mentioned? Have you ever made homemade lye soap at home? It's amazing how many people have never ventured into the Big Jim of soap at home, while using the simple contents usually found in most homes. Do you save bacon grease in Batman comics dedicated container, so you can 1982 Fleer baseball cards it when you need a bacon flavor drizzled over fresh green spinach leaves? Well you don't know what you are missing.

The excess melted fat from any cooked meat is usually used to make homemade soap by adding some powdered lye, which can be purchased at your local supermarket. It comes in a can, like baking powder. The directions on the can will assist you in your soap making operation.

There are two methods of making lye soap. One is the cold process, Loverman999 the other is the hot process, which has to be cooked to a directed temperature and maintained at that temperature until the soap has had time to reach a hardening consistency.

I can remember, when I was a teenager, I assisted in the making of homemade lye soap. I helped my stepmother make soap outside in a huge old iron pot with a fire built around all sides of the pot. We cooked the soap until it was a rolling boil and was getting firm around the edges. My stepmother was the chief soap maker and was experienced enough to know when the soap was cooked long enough.

The finished soap was cooled and then cut into bath size bars to be used around the house for all cleaning chores.

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