Can you make soap from scratch?
It will be a good after-the-collapse skill to barter. :)
Yes. All my soap is made from scratch using fats, oils, and lye with added extras, colors, scents, silk, micas, etc.
I started out in 1999 with a kitchen scale and soon found out it wasn’t adequate.
Bryan bought me a triple-beam balance accurate to .1 gram, and my soap has come out very well ever since.
I learned all about saponification of fats with lye and the behavior and the sap. value of each fat/oil.
Then I wrote my own formulas, and we have not bought a bar of soap since, LOL!