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I have been looking into the process of making my own lye using ashes from my wood burning stove. There are many great tutorials out there to show how to produce the lye, however it leaves me wondering how they make the jump from having liquid lye to using it in the soap process. Now please...

thanks Seawolfe I have been looking over that soap thread and am very interested in trying it. Thank you all for all the tips, I am going to start a new thread to help answer a few questions that have come up while pondering things over.

I would really like to try a tallow soap, I was wondering how you figure out how much lye you end up needing? and thanks for the tip of 100% lye

Hello there, I am as new to this forum as I am to making soap. I am very much a hands on DIY project kind of guy, and a buddy of mine just got me into wet shaving. This is what has led me to the idea of making soaps. I would love to make my own shaving soap, and would like to get my feet wet...