Growing Hops For Shade, Beer, and Soap is Simple
Growing hops is easy and fun. You can use your hops as shade plants, make beer with them, or use them as a soothing agent in soaps and balms.
Growing hops is easy and fun. You can use your hops as shade plants, make beer with them, or use them as a soothing agent in soaps and balms.
Soapmakers have a lot of extra bits of bar soap lying around so we have become experts in finding clever uses of soap! Here are 20+ of them.
This is a basic cleaning soap recipe that can be used in MANY other DIY cleaning recipes. It’s easy to make and great for general cleaning.
Have you ever soapmaking odors while making soap? Certain materials will always cause odors but there are some tips and tricks that can help eliminate them.
These DIY, vanilla and spruce scented, decorative soaps are beautiful and functional. Use them at home to impress your guests this holiday season!
Gelling, or the gel phase in soap making, is when the center turns hot and translucent. You may or may not want gelling so here’s how to control it better.
Soap nuts can be used to make a natural homemade all-purpose cleaner for everything in your home, from laundry to dishes to floors to toilets.
Having trouble getting onion and garlic smell off your hands? This odor-eliminating coffee ground soap recipe does that and smells just like a cup of coffee!
This colorful Easter egg soap recipe looks and smells beautiful! You can display it in your bathroom with pride or even give some away as gifts this Spring.
There are many different things people put in their homemade soap. This article shows you which soap making ingredients to avoid when making your own soap.
This is veteran soap maker Debra Maslowski’s “Oils for Soap Making guide”. It helps you decide which oils to use based on what properties you want your soap to have.
This DIY herbal mint melt and pour soap recipe is made with dried mint and essential oils. This is a great way to easily make your own natural soap at home.
Making soap is a passion! Sometimes things go as planned but sometimes weird things happen, like glycerin rivers. Don’t worry, we know how to avoid them!
Rebatching soap is the simple process of fixing a failed batch. Anyone making a lot of natural homemade soap has a failed batch sooner or later. Now we can fix it!
Grow and Make® DIY Soapmaking Kits Make up to 16 bars of glycerine-based soap with these Deluxe Soapmaking Kits. With these soapmaking kits, which use a meltable glycerine soap base,…
Soda ash in soap making is that powdery white substance that forms on soap bars as they are curing. Learn how to prevent soda ash from forming on your soap!
Learning to make goat milk soap white isn’t as easy as it sounds. But with a lot of practice, I have discovered the secret to making and keeping it white.
Learning how to felt soap is simple! Felted soap is a bar of soap wrapped in wool. This creates an exfoliating bar lasts longer and is easier to hang on to.