Dr. Bronner's makes 14.3 million bottles of pure castile soap a year. Nablus Soap Company follows a Palestinian tradition when making olive-oil soaps.

Did you know you can make soap at home? We've got the basics on ingredients and tools, safety, and how to get started creating your own soap.

Things To Do Home & Garden How To: Make your own laundry soap, dryer balls ... This photo provided by Sherri Griffin shows dryer balls dryer balls that reduce drying time, static cling and wrinkles.

Piqued by the innovation, resourcefulness and ingenuity required in an era before washing machines did all the scrubbing for us, we decided to make our own soap.

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