Soap Making

Q: Can a bar of soap be made with a wood ash drip lye? if so how?
~I have tried making lye crystals from a drip lye with no success~

We humans have been making soap, using wood ash, olive oil, beef tallow or other animal fat, for 5,000 years.

We here at Stone Garden teach a number of classes, in both cold and hot process. Soap making is fairly simple thing to do, at its most basic form. But to make a really good soap, it's rather technical, a bit dangerous, and takes quite a bit of knowledge. You can learn it from a book or by reading about it. But you might be much better off learning from an in-person teacher. To begin learning I suggest watching any of the many YouTube videos on the subject.