This is my grandmother in about the 1930's or 1940's...
I'm sure to make all this soap...had to take more than a day...!!
In the 1990's I tried my hand at soapmaking.
I even rendered down the fat...
the time, smell and work made me soon lose interest in soap making and made me appreciate the work that grandma had to do to make all her soap!!
Well grandma's been gone for over 30 years...but I still have a few bars of her soap...
This is great for rubbing on stains...
When I had my old top loading washing machine...
there were times I would grate some of this soap into my wash.
Reading some blogs I have found some recipes for liquid laundry soap and liquid hand soap...so today I made up a batch of each. I had them both done and cleaned up in less than 2 hours...
First I made the liquid hand soap (can't remember the blog I found this recipe on)
\Gathered my ingredients...
Grated my soap....
Melted it ...
Bottled it...
Next I did the laundry soap..
This recipe came from Mennonite Girls Can Cook
This soap was harder to grate..
It was finer...
Melted it on the stove
Added to the brand new bucket with the other ingredients, filled the bucket with hot tap water
...gave it a stir...
Hubby's not home...so it is still sitting in the kitchen sink...
don't seem to have the muscle to lift it out..
Hopefully it works as well as my grandma's soap did!!
hmmm maybe next batch
I'll try grating grandma's soap...and using it in the recipe:)
