Plain Old Soap
This is really back to basics! Our ancestors scrubbed up with this soap back through the centuries.
"Lye soap" has a bad (and undeserved) reputation... espeically since
all soap contains lye! That is how you get soap; soap
without lye is like yeast bread without yeast. It doesn't work. Go
ahead, check the label of your favorite modern soap. They are clever
and disguise the ingredients, though; look for "sodium tallowate" (lye
+ tallow), "sodium cocate" (lye + cocoa butter), or "sodium palmate"
(lye + palm kernel oil).
The bad reputation of lye soap probably comes from one (or both) sources: (1) Fresh soap has to "cure" for a few weeks, for the chemical process to finish. If you use soap too soon, it can be harsh. (2) If you use too much lye, it doesn't all mix with the fat/oil, and so there are bits of lye floating in your soap that will hurt your skin when you use it. (In the “old days” before you could buy lye in a bottle, making soap was a very imprecise process, and it was easy to get the proportions just a bit wrong.)
The bad reputation of lye soap probably comes from one (or both) sources: (1) Fresh soap has to "cure" for a few weeks, for the chemical process to finish. If you use soap too soon, it can be harsh. (2) If you use too much lye, it doesn't all mix with the fat/oil, and so there are bits of lye floating in your soap that will hurt your skin when you use it. (In the “old days” before you could buy lye in a bottle, making soap was a very imprecise process, and it was easy to get the proportions just a bit wrong.)
So, use our soap and have no fear!
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