Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soap-making has a rich history and is a blend of art and science. While traditional soap recipes call for ingredients like oils ...

One of the chief advantages of candles and soap from the standpoint of the manufacturer is that they can't be used without being used up. This means lots of repeat business if you are a soap and ...

The soap-making process began with pouring clean water into the top of the hopper. The water slowly percolated down through the ashes, emerging at the bottom as a red liquid potash known as lye. The ...

Until around 1916, making soap at home was commonplace. Using wood or plant ashes and leftover animal fats, families produced their own soap for cleaning their clothes and themselves. During World War ...

Have you ever picked up a bar of store-bought soap, read the ingredients, and wondered what half of them even are? If you’re trying to avoid synthetic fragrances, preservatives, or harsh detergents—or ...

Did you know that we use about 10 percent less water when we wash our hands using foaming soap rather than liquid soap? When we stop and think about how times we and the other members of our ...

Foaming hand soap is more efficient and easier to rinse off. Here's how I make it and save hundreds of dollars over store-bought every year. Chris Wedel Home Tech Editor Chris Wedel is a fan of all ...

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Purchases made through the links above may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. When was liquid soap invented? Liquid soap is not a modern invention. A crude form of liquid soap using a ...

My mum had a cookbook called Half A Can Of Tomato Paste And Other Culinary Dilemmas that sat on our kitchen bookshelf when I was a little kid. (I remember her explaining to me what a dilemma was one ...

SCOTT -- The first thing one learns when making soap is that there is a lot of stirring involved. And trickling. And waiting. And hoping not to blow anything up. But, boy, does it smell good. An eager ...