• This offer is for 6 Bars of Basic Homemade Lye Soap. Raised price to $25 due to shipping cost increase.

• Ingredients are Rendered Beef Tallow, Sodium Hydroxide (Lye), & Water.  Nothing else.

• Each Bar is 4 Ounces or greater. 

• Handmade lye soap is cut and trimmed by hand, each bar may not be uniform in size or color.

• This soap was made in our home in Missouri. We take pride in the quality of our work We invite you to view our other listed items and add us to your favorites list.

Old Fashioned unscented pure lye soap:

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This unscented soap is ideal for anyone who has allergic reactions to perfume and dye added to so many products in today's market. We believe this soap has a hypoallergenic benefit and grandma swears it will cure most skin disorders. This is not a harsh soap that some people remember from their childhood, it is formulated to be gentle and effective.

Facts About Grandmas Lye Soap

The same kind of soap that folks made at home, long before soap was available in stores.

All Soap, even liquid soap is made with either lye or a form of lye.

Lye is what causes the saponification of the oils into soap.

All of the lye is used up in the saponification process. No lye is left in the soap.

Grandma's Lye Soap is a mild and in many cases milder than many name brand soap.

Name Brand soap ingredients may include detergents, chemicals, preservatives or fragrance which may cause skin problems.

Many brands of soap today have much of the natural glycerin removed in the manufacturing process. This glycerin is then resold for additional profit by major manufacturers.

Detergent cleans well, but is very drying to the skin. This is why many of the manufactured soap today can cause dry and sometimes itchy skin, especially in winter time.

For poison ivy and oak rash, most people say to wash as soon after exposure as possible. Wash and rinse the irritated portion at least three times per day. After rinsing, place soap lather on the rash and leave it on until the next washing.

Sunburn is usually relieved within minutes by placing a generous amount of lather on the sunburn. Leave the lather on overnight. Folks say that it seems to pull the heat out better than other commercial products.

Our customers have said that mosquito and chigger bites are helped in the same way as the sunburn treatment.