Soap is the world’s safest, most effective antibiotic, antiviral, and destroyer of all things infectious. As far back as 2500 BC, Babylonian chemists deciphered this and identified the chemical reaction - saponification - that made it happen. 

Prior to that it was discovered by women who observed a bubbly lather in streams and rivers after a night of cooking over a fire.  The cool ember coals from the night before acted as a weak version of lye (alkaline pH) and the cooked meat provided the fat.  

As water washed out the nights fire, it provided the perfect medium for combining the coals and the fat, thus allowing for saponification to occur overnight.  The watery, alkaline coals converted the fats to ”soap.” 

The original name came from the Hebrew word borith, which means “cleaning agent.”  In English, it was later translated to “soap.”  Prior to this, animal fats and oil were used (unsuccessfully) to clean the skin.  Infection was common as was premature death. 

Officially, soap was the first medicine, as outlined in The Ebers Papyrus - an Egyptian medical book published in 1500 BC. The forgotten soap-making process - renowned and venerated. 

And that's exactly why my family has been making their own soap for 20 years!

We've never gone back to using store-bought bars or messy, toxic liquids. We also avoid the silly, colorful farmers market bars made by bored housewives. (They like to dabble in melt-and-pour soap, while eating muffins and sipping tea.) Fact is, those soaps don’t feel good on the skin. And they’re a health hazard! 

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