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Count on the folks at Home Soapmaking to mentor you through every step of your soapmaking journey in! Dive into hundreds of tutorials on our site or ask our experts your questions through live chat. You’ll find helpful step-by-step instruction in several of our tutorials.

Simple Lye Soap Recipe
April 9, 2025 · · Soapmaking

Create simple lye soap recipes and learn how to make soap with lye at home with these four scented variations.

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Cold Process Soap Vs. Hot Process Soapmaking
December 2, 2024 · · Soapmaking

Learn about the cold process soap vs. hot process soap and the equipment and ingredients needed for each of the different ways to make soap.

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Easy Melt and Pour Soap Recipes for Holiday Giving
December 7, 2022 · · Holiday, Soapmaking

Want a fun project that kids can do? Try easy melt and pour soap recipes for holiday giving.

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How to Make Bath Salts, Soaps, Scrubs, and Balms
October 11, 2022 · · Soapmaking

Making spa products started as a fun experiment starting with bath salts. Then came the Eureka moment.

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An Easy Lotion Bar Recipe
October 11, 2022 · · Soapmaking

A DIY lotion bar may seem surprising, but there is nothing better to keep inside your knitting bag for small finger snags and scratchy places.

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How to Make Bath Bombs: An Easy DIY Gift
October 8, 2022 · · Soapmaking

If you’re just starting your soapmaking journey, learning how to make diy bath bombs is a good first step.

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Starting Your Own Soap Making Business
August 27, 2022 · · Soapmaking

I remember when I first discovered I could make my own soap and started my own soap making business. I was intrigued and obsessed with the various scents and ingredients.

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Combining the Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
August 6, 2022 · · Soapmaking

If you make soap, you probably do it for one of two reasons. First, it allows artistic creativity while making something useful. And second, it allows control over all the ingredients.

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Why That Homemade Insecticidal Soap Might Kill Your Garden
June 21, 2022 · · Self-Reliance, Soapmaking

One of the most prevalent DIY gardening hacks is to make homemade insecticidal soap, but I am here to tell you that it just might kill your garden.

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Nominate a Homesteader for the I Am Countryside Feature
August 18, 2021 · · Canning & Kitchen, Cattle, Fences, Sheds & Barns, Growing, Homesteading, Self-Reliance, Sheep, Soapmaking, Tractors & Farm Equipment

Add to Favorites Know a homesteader who inspires others? Want to see them featured in Countryside & Small Stock Journal? Nominate them (or yourself!) and we’ll tell their story in the …

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How to Make Laundry Soap at Home
August 6, 2021 · · Soapmaking

Not long after I learned how to make homemade soap, I tweaked the recipe and learned how to make laundry soap. Those other “homemade laundry soap” recipes had flaws.

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A Twist on Cold Process Soapmaking: The Room Temperature Method
June 11, 2021 · · Soapmaking

Did you know there’s a fourth method for creating soap? It offers the creamy and opaque look of a rustic Hot Process bar with the smooth and silky finish from Cold Process.

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How to Make Goat Milk Soap in 7 Easy Steps
June 11, 2021 · · Soapmaking

Learning how to make goat milk soap doesn’t have to be complicated. Follow our step-by-step goat milk soap recipe and see for yourself.

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Making Money with Goat Milk Soap
June 11, 2021 · · Soapmaking

Add to Favorites By Heather Hicks — We didn’t plan to have a soap business, in fact, I didn’t plan for dairy goats! Some of life’s best adventures are from following your children’s lead …

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How to Make Lip Balm at Home
May 27, 2021 · · Holiday, Soapmaking

One of the neatest things about having a desire to be as independent as possible is the many things you learn to do on your own.

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