Soap making

Recently @brutledge, turned me towards a recipe for making soap that does not require 'lye' (I intend on posting a recipe to make lye soap later) I just am not 100% wild about rubbing a substance on my skin that can give me a chemical burn, and at the bottom of this article I post the only way, that I know, to clean up without using chemicals (both lye and sodium hydroxide are chemicals that can burn you)

Honey Soap (Honey, water, sodium hydroxide, olive oil, and beeswax)

I like the idea of being able to create things, so I took the above recipe and ran with it. I was able to understand how to locally source: Honey, water, olive oil, and beeswax...but I was uncertain about the sodium hydroxide. But why should that stop me, I mean someone has to make it so why not me? so I figured out how to make sodium hydroxide

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-sodium-hydroxide/

But the problem seemed to be 'where am I going to get a carbon rod at?'

After you gather the carbon rods, afix the two rods on either side of the container. Connect a 9 volt battery to the carbon rods (so one of the carbon rods is (+) and the other rod is (-)...this can be done using alligator clips

(pictured above alligator clips)

fill the container with clean water and non iodized salt, and let the carbon rods interact with the liquid for about 7 hours. A white film type residue will collect on the side of the container..that white film type residue is sodium hydroxide. And like was already said mix the sodium hydroxide with the honey, beeswax, olive oil and water...and you will have soap!

For a much simpler process please see
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@captaintj/the-sensibility-of-homsteading