Crafters have many interpretations of the term “natural soap crafting.” On one end of the spectrum, it can mean using only organic, chemical-free ingredients including soap bases, additives, colorants ...

In The Best Natural Homemade Soaps(Robert Rose, 2014), Mar Gómez offers 40 recipes for simple, luxurious soaps based on three essential ingredients: water, olive oil and caustic soda. Gómez adds a ...

Soapmaking has always been a popular craft with a dedicated group of followers, but with the explosion of urban homesteading and people looking to go green, noncrafters are now joining in on the fun.

In 2004, Greg Colden and Marty Corrigan left their home in Oakland to live on what is now Kokoleka Lani Farm, on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Among the cacao trees on their 5-acre farm, ...

For our ongoing series of DIY cleaning tests, we scoured the Internet (pun intended) for homemade formulas for hand-cleaning dishes. We tested each of three homemade dish cleaners with three ...