The soap-making process began with pouring clean water into the top of the hopper. The water slowly percolated down through the ashes, emerging at the bottom as a red liquid potash known as lye. The ...

SIOUX CITY — Traditional soaps materialize from two key ingredients: A kind of oil or fat (olive oil, hempseed oil, castor oil, animal fats, whatever it may be) and the highly caustic and toxic ...

Ask Danielle Ruggiero how she makes her soap and she is happy to share her methods and her recipe – a mix of coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, cocoa butter, castor oil and lye. Ask her what she likes ...