Soap Recipes
The recipes on this page are adapted from the book Making the Best of Basics, written by James Talmage Stevens, published 1975-1977 by Peton Corporation.
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Basic Hand Soap
- 1/2 oz or 14gm lye
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1/2 cup lukewarm fat
- 1 T. lemon juice (optional)
In a plastic container, gently stir lye into cold water with wooden spoon. Slowly add lukewarm fat. Continue to stir until slightly thickened. Add lemon juice, stirring to mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into plastic molds. Cover with plastic wrap and leave for 24 hours. Remove soap from molds and allow to air-dry for 14 days. Yield: 1 - 2 medium bars.
Basic Perfumed Hand Soap
(This recipe makes nice soap)
- 5 cups rain or soft water
- 1/2 cup powdered borax
- 11.6 oz. lye
- 11 cups fat (lye calculated for lard. See lye to fat table.)
Add at trace...
- 1 oz. strawberry dye
- 2 oz. lanolin
- 3 oz. glycerin
- 3 T finely ground oatmeal
- 4 tsp. aromatic Rose Geranium
Follow basic directions.
Soap from Home made Fat Drippings
- 3 quarts fat drippings
- 12.7 oz. lye
- 4 1/2 quarts cold rain or soft water
- 3 tsp. borax
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 T. sugar
- 1/4 cup ammonia
Thoroughly clean fats by boiling in equal amount of water. Place kettle in a cold place to firm fat. Cut fat from kettle sides. Pour off water and waste. Scrape off excess wastes from bottom of lard cake. Clean kettle and replace lard cakes, melt over low heat. Dissolve lye in 1 quart cold water and let stand until cool, then add melted fat slowly. Stir constantly. Mix other ingredients together and add to first mixture. Stir until the mixture is thick and honey colored. Pour into pan lined with a clean white cloth. Before soap becomes hard, mark pieces into cakes or form into balls. When hard, store to allow further air-drying.
Basic Granulated Laundry Soap
- 2 1/2 quarts rain water
- 2 quarts grease, strained, melted and hot
- 1 can lye (probably 1 lb.)
- 3 T borax
Mix water, borax, and lye. Add strained grease slowly. Remove from heat and leave in pot. Stir often during the first day. Allow two weeks to cure, stirring occasionally.
Laundry Soap: Recipe II
- 5 lbs. grease
- 1/2 cup ammonia
- 1 oz. sassafras oil
- 3 quarts rain water
- 1/2 cup borax
- 1 can lye (probably 1 lb.)
- 1/2 cup coal oil
Melt lye in cold water. Dissolve borax and add lye to mixture. Melt grease and add ammonia, then coal oil. Add to lye mixture. Stir until mixture congeals then put into milk cartons or leave in enamel pan. Cut into bars 24-48 hours later.
Basic Shampoo
- 1 bar basic soap
- 4 quarts rain water
- 2 slightly beaten eggs
- 1 tsp. powdered borax
- 1 oz. bay rum
Dissolve soap in boiling water. Let cool. Add eggs, borax and bay rum. Stir to mix thoroughly.
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