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I plan on making my first soap later this week, hopefully Friday, depending on my schedule. From what I have read, it seems like plastic is safe to use for the lye-water mixture, mixing the oil and the lye, and for the molds, as long is it labeled with the recycling label #5. Is this...

The grocery store I work at does have a box labeled lard, but looking at the ingredients, it seems like it is mostly lard, but does have some hydrogenated oils mixed in with the lard.

Hello all, While I have wanted to make my own soap for a while now, I plan on making my first batch sometime in the next month, or at least before the fall semester starts. I'm currently a college student, studying to become a high school science teacher. I never know what to say in...

I have wanted to make soap for several years. I got the lye recently, and the containers to mix it in and something to use for a mold (all number 5 plastic). For my first attempt, I planned on cold process, and since I wanted to stick to oils I can get at the grocery store for my first batch, I...