Liquid Castile Soap

Ingredients:
1 bar of Castile soap (Kirk's Castile available at Walmart)
2 quarts (8 cups) of boiling filtered water 

Equipment:
A large kitchen or vegetable grater
A bowl or pot large enough to hold 2 quarts

Directions:
1.  Grate the bar soap with a vegetable grater. 

2.  Measure out your boiling water and place it your bowl, pot or a large Pyrex measuring cup.

3. Add the flakes of soap and let rest for at least one hour. Most if not all of the soap will be dissolved into a nice concentrated liquid.  At this point, transfer your liquid castile soap to some mason jars, a squirt bottle or other container and you are ready to go.

Note - Within 24 hours the batches of liquid soap turned gel-like and semi-solid.  A quick run under hot water brought them back to liquid form.

As will all castile soaps, there will not be an abundant amount of sudsing.  The suds in most soaps comes from sodium lauryl sulfates, a known irritant that does nothing but make suds. Be aware that you may get a few bubbles with this, but not many. Odd as it seems, it still cleans very well and does not feel at all oily even though it is an oil based soap.

Multi-Purpose Household Cleaner

3 TBL Liquid Castile Soap
1 quart (4 cups) filtered water
1/8 to 1/4 TSP Essential Oils

Shake everything together in a bottle or juice jug and fill individual spray bottles.