This video follows the attempt to make soap completely from scratch using raw materials sourced from animals, plants, ash, minerals, and homemade lye. What starts as a historical and chemical ...

I've always wanted to make soap, but it seemed like an arduous task and a little risky because you have to use lye, which is caustic. I'm sure that many older readers will remember their grandmother ...

This episode rebuilds soap making from raw materials by calcining limestone into lime, reacting it with natron to create lye, and pressing olives into oil with a screw press. The final olive oil soap ...