Playing with Lye

Now that presents have most likely safely arrived at their destinations I can begin to tell you about this year's offerings. The most unusual one for me was an experiment with soap making. I was invited to a soap making party back around Halloween as it takes about 60 days for curing and it was fast approaching that time frame. Which means that by the time Christmas rolled around I had totally forgotten about the soap and only found it again by chance!

This was a milk based soap and despite having read a few books in the past on the subject and deciding never to try this particular craft, I found it wasn't that bad. In no way does that mean I am going to start up a factory in the kitchen! Though I did get a soap mold for Christmas and am excited to try it out, I think I should be supervised for the next round or two.

I can attest to the fact that Tatonka thought it smelled good enough to eat, but I didn't try it out myself. So, if you got soap from me for Christmas, let me know, how was it? Did you eat it or wash with it?