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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 ...

Soap-making is one of those traditional skills that are undergoing a huge renaissance. With many people craving healthier, more natural and more personally crafted skin products, artisan soaps have ...

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 ...

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 ...