Crock Pot Transparent Soap
8 oz castor oil
5 oz coconut oil
2.5 oz Stearic acid
1 oz olive oil
14 oz. lard
4 oz Lye
8 oz water
(read instructions below for when to add the following ingredients)
8 oz sugar
3 oz boiling water
13 oz of 70% ethanol alcohol (vodka will work)
3 oz glycerin
Measure oils and put into crock pot to melt. Mix [...]

This is the time of year that I used to finish tidying up my rose beds. I currently don’t have any roses to tend though, so thought I would simply share my tips with others that might be struggling to grow bumper crops of roses.
Click on the following link, it is a PDF with “Tips [...]

Southern Soapers Yahoo forum will be ten years old this coming Dec 10, 2009. Last year we did a Virtual Pot Luck Birthday Party on the evening of Dec 10. Folks posted a favorite recipe of what they would have brought to the party had it been a Real Life Birthday Party. [...]

My friend Margie heard I have homegrown tomatoes coming out my ying yang (whatever that is), and sent me the funniest Youtube video. Had to share! Later this afternoon I will add a photo of the over abundance of tomatoes. My favorite are the Gypsy Orange tomatoes I got from Burpee.. wowee, they are GOOD.
She [...]

This year my husband and I signed our 8 year old son up for swim lessons at the local YMCA. He has had so much fun, and is slowly gaining the confidence he needs to know that he can swim. I am hopeful that he may enjoy it enough to also join the local swim [...]