During hard times sooner or later everyone runs out of soap.To make soap you only need three things: rainwater, cold ashes from any hardwood fire, and animal fat from almost any type of animal, such as a cow, pig, goat, sheep, bear, beaver, raccoon, opossum, groundhog, etc

.All soap consists of the above three ingredients in one form or another, and that includes bath soap, dish soap, laundry soap, and hair shampoo.

Soap is not difficult to make and it does not require any special equipment.

And soap can be made from things that exist in large quantities in nature, and which are typically discarded as being of little value (rainwater, campfire ashes, and animal fat). Therefore, a person who knows how to make good soap could provide his or her family with a small but steady income during hard times by making and selling soap.

Soap requires no financial investment in raw materials, and therefore it does not require the advance purchase and storage of inventory before the hard times occur.

more at Source: Grandpappy’s Homemade Soap Recipe by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. – Grandpappy