Did you know that instead of discarding the ashes from your fireplace, you can actually use them to make an ingredient for a ...

Wolf recalled that "we kept our floors white by scrubbing them with white sand, water, and soap." Dunnahoo wrote that many of his elderly informants assured him that "homemade lye soap was a certain ...

Wolf recalled that "we kept our floors white by scrubbing them with white sand, water and soap." Dunnahoo wrote that many of his elderly informants assured him that "homemade lye soap was a certain ...

I continue to be amazed at the large number of homemakers who have rediscovered from the good ole days the art of making their own soap. I have written several columns about this through the years, ...