First Time Making Soap

Yes, soap. 

Really real soap bars!

I'm so excited!

A friend agreed to help me through the first process of my life.

It's a simple, old-fashioned recipe that likely my Grandma Kaat used herself nearly 70 years ago.

We used lye, water, and mixture of tallow (beef fat) and lard (pork fat) that I rendered myself.

A day later, a perfect cake of lovely, white, beautifully scented soap.

 Now it needs to cure for a month. I'll let you know how it works then!