Grosso lists the main ingredients needed, plus recipes on how to personalize your soaps to be perfect for your home. In this excerpt, she gives her recipe for making a basic cold-process soap.

In hot process soap-making, external heat accelerates saponification. Most soaps can be used the next day, though it’s ideal to wait 1 week if you want a harder bar. Cold process. Cold process ...

Learn how to make artisan cold-pressed soap from scratch at Tentacle this Sunday afternoon. At the workshop, you will be learning different techniques, such as how to use different herbs and ...