Homemade Olive Oil Soap
Our First Experiment with Homemade Soap Part 1 In the constant battle of budgeting, one is always looking for places to save money as well as potentially turn that savings into an income stream. We have selected the lowly household item, soap, as our next area to improve on. This was done for a number reasons; Soap is simple and used everyday. People have been making it for thousands of years, most recipes go like this - Lipids (Fat or Oil), Hydroxide Salts (Lye, Sodium Hydroxide, is most commonly used for its availability), Water, Extras (Anything else you want to add, fragrance, color, abrasives) Store markups on soap products are quite high when compared to the value of materials used to make it. A lucrative market currently exists on sites like Ebay and Etsy for speciality homemade soaps. Homemade soap is better for your skin. We selected a basic soap recipe for our first batch as a sample trial before getting too creative. This recipe includes; extra virgin olive oil, lye...