What might look like sugar cookie dough or misshapen pats of butter just looks like beauty to me. Like a toddler’s stick person drawing or incorrectly buttoned sweater, these funky rounds are my first attempt at cold process soap making, and I’m just as proud! A friend and I shared a wonderful morning sipping tea and coffee while learning cold process soap making with Sue from Bountiful Acres. Not only was she willing to teach us how to make soap, she let us perform the tasks ourselves (instead of watching only to forget later). Plus we got to pet and adore her fluffy flock of 35 sheep (and many more sweet animals), and gather up feathers for the boys collection when they arrived to pick me up.

Sue was a great teacher, encouraging, reassuring, and empowering. Like the toddler grown to adulthood, I am ready to strike out and fail and/or succeed at my very own batch at home very soon. I’ve just got a few more supplies to gather up. This is one homesteader’s task I’m excited to experiment with. Have you attempted Cold Process Soap Making? Taken a class? Do you have any tips?