Of course, when making soap at home it is necessary to take extreme precautions: the place where you go to work must be ventilated, you must protect your hands with gloves and also use protective goggles for the eyes.

The truth is that it is a very good option to recycle the oil that we use every day in the kitchen, so that we reuse it and its use will save us a good amount of money. To make soap you need mainly caustic soda, olive oil (or almond) and water. Since then, and to this day, despite the fact that the soap industry has made this product indispensable for our hygiene has caused that we almost forgot the process of natural production of soap, the reality is that more and more people are they cheer up make handmade soap at home. While the Egyptians obtained a mixed product of the natron (mineral sodium carbonate extracted from the salty lakes after the evaporation of water), soaked lupins and fuller's earth. In fact, they obtained it from the ashes of the combustion of halophytic plants. It is known that the Phoenicians manufactured it with caustic soda and olive oil.

Already in Mesopotamia were clays of Sumerian clays that mentioned the mixture that was obtained after boiling oils with resins, potassium and salt. Many historians believe that the soap It was invented about three thousand years ago.

How to make natron salt