tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992789209332839258.post8213044266481065327..comments2022-06-24T23:21:51.230-07:00Comments on Enthusiastic Homemaking: The shoemaker's wife is barefoot...and my husband has no soap!Brandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01138946747146153318noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992789209332839258.post-67542887355407508622011-02-17T17:31:11.829-08:002011-02-17T17:31:11.829-08:00Stone Age Drifter, yes I make shaving soap; I use ...Stone Age Drifter, yes I make shaving soap; I use my basic soap recipe, handmill it with either beer or water, add either glycerin or betonite clay for razor glide, Bay Rum fragrance or essential oil, use a clean empty orange juice can for a mold, when it hardens I slice it into disks. My husband also uses shaving soap and he says my shaving soap is the BEST! (but he's probably biased). If you want to learn to make soap; I learned from the book "The Complete Soapmaker" by Norma Coney; it's not the best book, as I've figured out that some of the methods she uses are not the recommended methods, and I've adapted my own recipes and methods, but it's a good starting book and the pictures are the best. If you want to see pictures of my shaving soap, it's in the "sold" items in my etsy shop, or I will have new pictures posted when the batch I made yesterday is ready (That was not a veiled attempt to get you to buy my soap, I just think you might be interested in the pictures; besides I'm fresh out of shaving soap). And the cheap stuff is the very devil! DETERGENT! Which is made from PETROLEUM and lots of yuckies. But I'm a complete soap snob now, I would probably turn to stone if exposed to commercially made soap; before I learned more about soap, I blithely used whatever was on sale and suffered no ill effects!Brandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01138946747146153318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992789209332839258.post-72761022204149046202011-02-17T17:17:34.656-08:002011-02-17T17:17:34.656-08:00Let me just say, I really admire you for everythin...Let me just say, I really admire you for everything you do. Have you ever made any shaving soap? I shave with a straight razor and I refuse to use pre-packaged shaving cream. Walmart sells shaving soap, but I would be interested in learning how to make it myself.Pj https://www.blogger.com/profile/14194450867405705334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992789209332839258.post-24804563147045686352011-02-16T13:34:12.660-08:002011-02-16T13:34:12.660-08:00I found this so funny! Your poor husband- with a ...I found this so funny! Your poor husband- with a closet full of soap in the house, no less! I'm glad you used some for yourself. I'm the same way with paper- I want to have it and admire it and keep it nice. That's why it's fun to make paper things for other people- I'm forced to cut it and let it go to be used!Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00727985096723353538noreply@blogger.com