Author Archives: Stephany Riley

To make soap you need to create a chemical reaction known as saponification. In technical terms, saponification involves base (usually caustic soda NaOH) hydrolysis of triglycerides, which are esters of fatty acids, to form the sodium salt of a carboxylate that we call soap.  If you think you’d like to give cold process soapmaking aContinue reading “Cold Process Soap”