[Vlog of forest letter🌲🐿️ living] Choosing comfort in life / Handmade soap from fir and pine / 60s Lifestyle / Slow Living

I haven't made soap for a long time.
The last soap I made was completely gone.

For the past few years, the soap I use has been almost exclusively made by myself.
Sometimes, this! I sometimes buy a soap when I come across one that I think is a good idea.

It is not scented with essential oils or marbled with dyes,
The result is not very pretty, but that's okay because it's very comfortable to use (laughs).

The process of making simple soap is not that difficult once you get used to it,
It takes more than a month to be ready for use, so you want to use it as soon as you make it! It's not possible to just make it and use it straight away! So again, I wish I had made it before it was completely gone.

The beauty of handmade soap is that it is so comfortable to use,
The gentle feeling of a moist face wash without stickiness is really pleasant.

The reason I decided to make soap was for my son's free research for his summer science homework when he was in junior high school. It was almost 20 years ago now...
At the end of August, when the summer holidays were coming to an end, my son suddenly said he was going to make soap (laughs).
As is customary, why not do it earlier! Reluctantly helping to make it after an agony of such things as...

It's free research in science, so you can't just make it, you have to 'research' it...
Rules,
Extra virgin olive oil
Pure olive oil
Sesame oil
Grapeseed oil.
I think we decided to prepare (and give) a report on the characteristics of each soap produced.
As you may have noticed at this point, the soap takes a month to be ready.
Of course, there was no way I could make it to the start of the second semester, and I think I submitted my report halfway through on the day the homework was due 😆.

I remember helping them, thinking it was a hassle. And as a result, a large amount of soap was produced, which is how I started using handmade soap.

How is it possible to make handmade soap? I thought, and started using soap made with extra virgin oil first.
This! It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!
It didn't foam much and dissolved easily, but what a moisturiser!
This is how I came to appreciate handmade soap.

Incidentally, the comfort of soap made with any oil is incomparably better than that of commercial soap.
Extra virgin olive oil was the best, but it took the longest and hardest time to make soap dough (it took a whole day), so I never made it with 100% extra virgin after this.
Also, as you can imagine, sesame oil has never been made since, as it produces a sesame oil scented soap that makes me feel like I am in a Chinese restaurant after my bath.

Although I knew the beauty of handmade soap, after my son's homework, it wasn't as if I had been making it consistently, it still took time and effort, and I had the excuse that I was busy and it was a hassle to get started, so I made it very occasionally. Very occasionally... that's like once every two years? It's like once every two years 😆.

I think the reason I've been making them for the past few years is because my lifestyle has changed and I have more time and space to do so...? I think so, but I also think that I just started making them because I wanted to...? But I also think that I just started making them because I wanted to...?
You're busy doing what you want to do, you don't want to do what you don't want to do...
And you wanted to feel that comfort of handmade soap all the time.
Probably something like that.