The problem with homemade soap like he was talking about is if it has too much potash left. Then it turns you into soap. Since you never know how much potassium carbonate any given plants will produce it's hit or miss.

I'm surprised there weren't any news stories this year of "mysterious burns on forehead" from ash Wednesday.

There is a local woman that makes and sells some home-made goat milk bar soap. She has a small herd of milking goats. It's quite nice and I buy a few bars from her during the county fair every year.

In a tongue in cheek manor - kind of. If you go actually look at the shelves when you go to buy some soap, you will find all kinds of liquid and foaming soaps/body washes that promise all kinds of things to make you cleaner and more radiant and smell better. And those tend to populate the eye level shelves to make them easier to notice. And the bar soaps are tend to be on the lower shelves. Making them less noticeable and a bit harder to see.

I have made some soap when my Daughters were younger and still at home. Mostly so they could learn about what "the old days" were like when Dad and Mom were their age. Soap making is kind of expensive to do these days. A lot cheaper and easier to just buy a bar of soap from the store. But they had fun learning.

We taught our Daughters a lot of things that aren't commonly done these days. But were things we did everyday to have a normal life. Everything from gardening and canning to sewing to soap making to how to raise and kill and butcher an animal.