Perhaps you're hypersensitive to perfumes and chemicals and would like to make sure the soap you use doesn't have them. Maybe your friend has celiac disease, and you'd rather not poison him with a soap that doesn't mention on the label that it used wheat in processing. Maybe you like the artistic appeal of homemade soap. Maybe you're none of these things.
The fact is, soap making can be a worthwhile hobby.
Fact: commercial soaps don't have a lot of variety in scents.
?—At least, not as much variety as you might like. So you could probably find cinnamon apple if you're willing to pay the price for it, but what if you prefer nutmeg?
Fact: commercial soaps are rather plain and impersonal.
Who wants the same plain drab soaps as everyone else? Does a friend like bath & body supplies? Make a personalized bar of soap for her for her birthday, in her favorite color!
Fact: commercial soaps contain lots of harsh chemicals.
You might not react, but you're bound to have friends or family members with sensitive skin, and why subject your most expansive organ (your skin) to needless torture? By making your own soap, you can decide whether or not to use those toxins?—beg pardon, chemicals.
Fact: commercial soaps have only been widespread for less than a century.
It was only in the early 1916, when World War I caused a fat shortage, that synthetic soaps were invented because people lacked the fat to make their own organic ones. These first commercial synthetic soaps were detergents.
Fact: homemade things appeal to virtually everyone.
While everyone certainly can't afford the price tag of a handmade sweater, most if not all people enjoy the private touch and comfort of a homemade item over a commercially made product.
So browse the articles to the left as they're completed and put up, leave comments, complaints, or favorite soap-making tips and soap recipes, and have fun!