S Day- Scrub –a- dub I have Soap in My Tub
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| This is my label for my soap. I found it one day and I love it! I just added color to it! |
Soap making has
been one of those things that has been made here on the homestead since 1998. It
all started with a book I bought a few years before that. I had been in a book
club and bought this book thinking I would love to try making it someday. When
we moved to Georgia we went to the Hiawassee Mountain fair with the kids and watched a
lady make a batch in a big old cauldron pot. We talked about how hard the soap was
and I told her my kids kill bars of soap in one bath every night. She told me
once you make your own soap you would never go back to store bought soap and
that homemade soap is so much harder than store bought too. Well to me that
sounded like a no brainer.
My hubby and I went looking for all our supplies and started
to make soap not much longer after we went to the fair. She was so right It
seemed to last far longer with the kids. My kids didn’t destroy it as fast
anymore. We started to make more soap through the year, and we started to take
it to different health food stores in the area. We had so many different kinds
of soap that we made just to find out which of the recipes in the books worked the
best. We made fruit and veggie soaps, we
saved all our fat and rendered it and suet for the homestead soap recipe and we
used honey and oats and so many different kinds of herbs. We had soap drying
all over the house. I guess that the time we started not many folks really
wanted to try it, but as the years have gone by we see so many places that sell
it and I see a lot of recipes for melt and pour soaps but I just feel like that
is cheating because that is all you do is melt someone else’s Glycerin soap to
make some you add stuff too. I wanted to have the pleasure of saying I did it
all.
I made so much soap over the years for my family and even
used my daughter’s breast milk to make some for her. My kids love the way it
feels and how it prevents skin problems like zits. I love it because after all
these years I have very few wrinkles and I know it is due to making and using
my soap. No chemicals that can damage my skin. That is the best thing.
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| Patchouli and Homestead soap |
My favorite soap and the one and only one I use is
patchouli. I mix the leaves into the soap and put essential oils of patchouli
in it to add the best scent ever, it is a great exfoliator and it is great for
aging skin, which I sure believe.
My Hubby love the homestead soap it is a very hard bar and
uses a huge amount of lard. He does add a scent to it sometimes like cedar wood
or sandalwood.
My son wants Lavender and cedar wood for him and his
girlfriend so as soon as it warms up a bit we are making him some. I think he
is trying to impress her because I had to make him some bath bombs too. He and his twin brother are getting a care package with soap, lip balm and arnica salve and a silver generator.
I am a firm believer that homemade is the best and I do think
it is safer for even the youngest ones. Very gentle and soothes the worst of
skin. I am so glad I bought the book and tried to do it on my own, but I love
teaching myself things I thought were cool anyways. I love to create natural
spa stuff for myself and family and that is the way we should always think
about our families.
I have purchased many different books on soap making but
this book I will show is the first and my number one go to for making my soap.
I have made shampoo bars and liquid laundry soap and liquid
soap for the bath too. The more I can eliminate the bad chemicals like poly glycol
(which is basically antifreeze which is just about everything from soap to
shampoo to toothpaste) I didn’t think my babies needed that.
I will leave you with one recipe: Which soon I will tell you
how to make. One batch or slab of soap makes about 30 bars of soap depending how you
slice it.
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