How to Make All-Natural Hand Soap from Scratch

So, you want to make all-natural hand soap? Okay, I can help you to do that. I like making soap. I know how to make the all-natural hand soap in both liquid and solid bar forms, but can't do it in my part of the country. The baby acorn tree just won't live in my cold climate.

Directions for All-Natural Hand Soap:

Making soap from real all-natural ingredients starts with an acorn. You need a green acorn that has never been around chemical fertilizers, car exhaust, or pollution. My guess is that this kind of acorn may come with an advertising sticker on it explaining that it has been organically grown...

To plant your green acorn so that it can turn into the oak tree that you need for your soap making adventure is a little tricky if you do not what your tree to ever come in contact with chemicals for all-natural soap. The USA is covered with man-made chemicals. It might be a bit hard these days to find a place to plant the acorn where it can live out its life without touching any air, land, or water that has been contaminated.

To get your green acorn to sprout, put it into a baggie with damp sawdust from some organically approved source, and water that has not been treated in any manner with chemicals. After a couple of months in the fridge, with luck, your acorn will be done with its' winter cycle and starting to show a root coming out of the bottom. You can then plant the acorn in soil that has never seen any chemicals; potting soil is not normally pure, you need chemically free real dirt.

Your oak tree will then grow about one foot per year if it is happy in the spot that you find for it. When your oak tree reaches the 15-25 year point, it should be just about ready for you to chop down to make a batch of soap. Remember while chopping to keep that gas saw pollution away from your all-natural project.

Next, burn your tree into ashes. Do this without using any lighter fluid products to get the tree fire started. After your tree is finished burning, collect all of the ashes and put them into a wood, crock, or glass container that has never seen any chemicals. The container needs to have a spout on the bottom. Cover your ashes ¼ deep with water that has never seen any chemicals and let it set for about two-weeks.

At the end of the curing time, find another chemically free wood, crock or glass container and put it under the spout on the container holding your hardwood ashes and water. Open the spout with a 20-foot pole and let the water trickle out. Put that water back into the first container with this same 20-foot pole and repeat the process three times.

You now have the lye that you need to make your all-natural hand soap. Since this has taken you around 20-years to accomplish, you may be tired of making all-natural hand soap at this point. If so, just dump that lye right down the drain; it is the main ingredient in drain cleaner. Or, go use it to clean the oven; it is the main ingredient in oven cleaner.

No, I'm sorry. Running down to the hardware store and buying a can of pre-made lye will not work. The chemists have found a way to make lye quicker by tweaking the process. If you want all-natural hand soap, you have to go do it the old fashioned way.

Okay, next I should warn you that your home-made lye will dissolve a human body. Lye is currently being considered as a "green" alternative to cremation. And, with that warning planted firmly into your mind... Put that lye someplace safe and out of the way while you start growing your organic chemically-free pig. We need his fat to go with your lye for all-natural hand soap.

You will also want to look into trying to find chemical free oil essence to put smell into the soap, some chemical free and organically grown coloring to change the ugly brownish color that the soap will have, some machine that can whip air into your all-natural soap without getting any pollution near it, or splattering any of that lye around... and, maybe some paper making instructions so that you can have a chemically free wrapper to keep your all-natural hand soap pure.

Okay... so now we have to grow the chemical free pig. You start with the baby that is advertised as a wiener pig. This little cutie should come from a mother who has never been exposed to air, land, or water chemicals. You'll love this little guy, they really are adorable.

Name your new baby pig Lye so that you remember why he's there. My first pig was named Chops, and even with the name, I had to pay somebody else to shot him at butchering time. So, be forewarned. Do not become attached to your new baby pig or you might not want to use the all-natural hand soap that you are working so hard to make.

The baby pig can not be fed any food or water that has come into contact with any chemicals and you should not let him play in any dirt that has been exposed to chemicals, and in most USA places... don't let him breathe the air. My suggestion on this problem is to give the hospital a call and explain your situation and ask for one of those bubble gizmo's that they put people allergic to everything into.

I need to go make a few phone calls while you figure out housing for the pig part of the all-natural hand soap... and I'll meet you back here to finish your all-natural hand soap lesson.

I'm having some thunderstorms today. If my power goes out and I don't make it back here.... Just grow the pig, gather your other pure ingredients together, and find one of the many, many, many online recipes with all-natural hand soap in the title. Follow those directions using your all-natural hand soap ingredients. If I don't make it back, good luck with your pig project! And, good luck with your all-natural hand soap project!