Making soap using lye can feel overwhelming. Dip your toes in soap making by starting with melt and pour soap. This easy homemade lavender soap recipe takes all the hard work out of the process.

We've rounded up 10 items around your home you can clean with dish soap to solve everyday problems in an instant.

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Cleaning the family's clothes meant first washing the guts of freshly butchered hogs in a frigid mountain stream to make lye soap. Reed's most striking example of the alien world of Faubus's youth ...

Archaeologists unearthed traces of it in Babylonian clay artefacts, which were also inscribed with recipes for soap-making. In Aleppo, olive oil, laurel berry oil and lye were melted down, then cooled ...

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Bar soap, made from plant oil or animal fat and lye, without many extra ingredients ... But you have to make sure the pouch is clean and dry, which means no liquid left in it.