4.4 Making Homemade Soap

• Forms of soap at household level: liquid, cake/bar, paste, powder
• Natural ingredients: ashes, salt, water, animal fats, plant oils
• Safety with lye from ash leach (alkali)
• Making homemade soap and using it to clean

• identify the forms of soap used at the household level
• make homemade soap using natural ingredients
• embrace homemade soap for household use

“How can we make soap using natural ingredients?”

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1. Forms of household soap
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   Brainstorm soap you actually use: bar or cake, liquid, paste and powder.
2. Natural ingredients for soap
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Ash, water, salt, animal fat and plant oil are the design ingredients. Ash water will be lye: handle later under safety rules.
3. Lye safety
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Ash leach is alkali. It burns. Adult zone, gloves, no taste, no aluminium, water to flush, never a drink bottle.
4. Leaching ash
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Water through cold wood ash drips as lye. Learners may help with cold ash; the drip bowl is an adult zone.
5. Fats and oils for soap
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Use clean rendered animal fat or spare plant oil. Not drain sludge, engine oil, or the house cooking oil taken without asking.
6. Making bar soap
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Adult combines lye water and fat, optional salt, pours a mould. Learners line moulds and stay behind the line until the bar is cool and labelled.
7. Liquid, paste and powder
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   From a cooled safe bar, grate to paste, dilute to liquid, or dry to coarse powder. Label SOAP, never a drink bottle.
8. Use homemade soap
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Wash with the soap you made, store it labelled, and embrace making it again with the same lye rules.