How to Make Lye Free Organic Soap
- 1). Melt soap. Place soap in medium saucepan. Melt soap over low heat until completely liquid.
- 2). Add fragrance. Place 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh herbs, 1/3 cup fresh flower petals, or 3 tablespoons dried herbs into small piece of cheesecloth. Tie with string to make a small bundle or package. Add cheesecloth/herb bundle to liquid melt-and-pour soap. Let simmer over very low heat for 15 minutes. Remove cheesecloth bundle.
- 3). Shape soap. Pour liquid soap into molds. Or pour mixture in a cake pan. Score with knife as the soap begins to harden, then break into bars when it hardens completely. Or allow to harden a little then scoop up handfuls and shape into soap balls. Or mold a ball of soap around the ends of a short length of rope for soap on a rope.