I stopped making and selling soaps 3 1/2 years or so ago. The one thing that hurt the most was dumping all those oil bottles. That was a huge amount of money that went to waste. They are only safe and good for so long, so they were well past useable. I have the powders, and new butters and oils to make some anytime I want but I still have some bars left over but gave tons away to friends.

After cleaning the one pantry, I could tell that I can grow less this year. That will save a lot of work in the kitchen. It is snowing again today, yikes!