As with most people, making soap wasn’t something I planned to do. I didn’t have a driving urge to become a soapmaker. In fact, up until about 12 years ago, I never really thought about where soap came from. True, I didn’t like using “traditional, store-bought” soap, but it never occurred to me that there were other options.
Then, in the late 1990’s I had major changes in my life. Most of them weren’t very pleasant, and all of them resulted in the necessity to regroup, restructure and reorganize. Sparing the gruesome details, at the end of it all I was living on our family ranch in a 90-year-old house wondering what I was going to do for the rest of my life.








