Rediscover the forgotten kitchen practices of the past. Take a nostalgic journey through time and learn traditional cooking ...

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.

A woman shared her 'hocus pocus' cleaning hack for removing dirt and ash pieces from the window of a stove - and people have ...

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 ...

JERSEY COUNTY - The 33rd annual Apple Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Jersey County ...

Travelers can even take home souvenirs made by the craftspeople, from lye soap to blown glass, along with homemade candies and candles. The food at Silver Dollar City centers around down-home ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder made generations of readers fall in love with the homestead fantasy. At iconic sites from her books, ...

Bar soap, made from plant oil or animal fat and lye, without many extra ingredients ... are actually “detergents”. Making detergents uses five times as much energy and produces about 10 ...

For more heavy-duty jobs, you can use a liquid soap that strips oil ... of anything that contains bleach or lye. While you’re at it, don’t fashion a homemade concoction with lemon juice ...