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Homemade soap - is it really better for the environment?

  • Is it better than buying say a bar of organic soap? You still have to buy ingredients for making the soap..which takes packaging..

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    yes, most major brand bars of soaps have high levels of toxins in them. just by reducing these toxins in the home, you are reducing the risk of cancer, so YES, it is really better for the environment

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Actually, yes. This is a link from my blog, sends you to another link but you know whatever. It actually tells you how to make soap from bacon grease. :) Sounds gross, but it really isn't. What's gross is what companies usually put in your soap... http://pixiesthoughts.livejournal.com/6807.html

raisinette

The idea behind locally produced goods is to avoid the fuel consumption and CO2 production of transporting the items around the world so yes homemade soap would be better for the environment then soap manufactured halfway around the world and shipped to you. The ingredients necessary for making soap is oil and sodium hydroxide, both of which can also be sourced locally just as the pioneers did. As noted by another poster, ash has sodium hydroxide and is what the pioneers used to make soap.

John W

OK, better has to be a comparison term, and make or buy organic soap is much the same for the environment. In both situations the lye used is the main concern. Are you making it from wood ash or from sodium hydroxide purchased in the store? Sodium hydroxide comes from salt, and when it is produced we have a lot of chlorine to get rid of. If there is an environmental impact the chlorine will be the main concern. Wood ash is not a problem, environmentally if we are getting the ash from fire that would otherwise have been used. If we burn wood specifically for this, that is a problem. When we burn wood and just throw away the ash, instead of making soap, that is a problem only because we are then using some more resources to get our soap.

donfletcheryh

No. Just use whatever soap you like out of the supermarket.

Common Sense

It's better for us all.

luciloo26

it can be, but most people dont, truth is its actaully better for u! surprised? prosessed soaps sit in warehouse for years before they EVER hit grocery shelfs, meaning that they are already dusty and dirty. with homemade soaps, they actaully can relax u while making them (use essentail oils for this) and YOU make sure everythings clean

over that loser!

It depends on what it is made out of. I can tell you that it will be much harder to make than it is to buy one at the store. But good luck.

Mieko

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