Thinking of the past...

I was just thinking about somethings I did as a child and I remember playing in a vacant house in the city and in this house I came across a box of different very old hotel soaps. Wow some of the package designs and fragrances. I absolutely loved them! I was curious as to how they where made but to young to want to find out. Then as a young adult (20’s) a lady had homemade soap balls in her bathroom and I asked how she made them. It seemed simple and so began my dig for how too make things from scratch on my own. My sister (Sam) beat me to it by one because she already had found a book about soapmaking and that is how we got started…though we don’t make soaps together anymore, and her soap making adventures are put on the back burner.

What triggered you all to make things from scratch?