DIY Artisanal Soaps (Adams Media, 2016), by Alicia Grosso equips readers with everything they need to begin making their own beautiful soaps right at home. Grosso lists the main ingredients needed, ...

Readers, this is the fourth of 12 basic homestead skills we’ll be presenting every month throughout 2019 from Kimberlee Bastien’s new book, 52 Homestead Skills. We invite you to join Kimberlee and her ...

No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.

Soap has been the star of many a newscast in coronavirus times, but exactly what is it and how does it work? At its most basic, soap is a mixture of some kind of oil and an alkali, such as salt or ...

Today I put a thin layer of wood ashes over my vegetable garden, trusting that the potash will enrich the soil with the winter rains. Our Arkansas ancestors did the same thing, but generations of ...