Soap Projects – Shaving Soap, Dish Soap and Pine Tar Soap – Saturday, May 16, 2026 – 1 to 4 PM

This Soap Projects class is designed for students who have taken our Beginning Soap Making class or have prior experience making soap and are comfortable working with lye and safety precautions.

We’ll explore and make three different soap projects in this class: shaving soap, dish soap and pine tar soap.

Our shaving soap will be made with potassium hydroxide, giving students experience with working with that type of lye. This will be a traditional shave soap that is typically used with a brush to work up lather and apply.

The dish soap recipe for washing dishes will include citric acid and we’ll discuss how that impacts recipes. This soap is designed to be used in conjunction with a wooden scrub brush and students can bring their own ramekins or similar containers to pour their dish soap into or choose from some we’ll have handy.

Pine tar soap is relatively easy to make but takes some special care due to the tendency of the pine tar to accelerate the lye reaction.

We’ll make large community batches for each of our three projects, which will be split among students so that you’ll get to take home a portion of each batch.

The Soap Projects class assumes that students know the basics (we only do a quick review at the beginning about safety when working with lye) but you don’t need to have completed all of our soap classes to take this one.

Class Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026 – 1 to 4 PM