Soaping Anyone?

[Marilyn]

Does anyone on here make their own soap?? I've been researching it, and if all goes as planned this evening, I'm going to try to make my first batch using a very basic recipe. If I don't get the whole thing done, I at least want to get my lye mixed with the water and get my mold ready.

I love to bake, and want so badly to learn to do really nice cake decorating. However, we don't want the baked goods around the house. I'm thinking I can do the creative things that I want to try, only with homemade soap. If you research it, you can make all kinds. Natural soaps that are just good for your skin with coconut oil and oatmeal and such, or you can get fancy and use colors and scents and molds or layer or swirl to make some really neat effects.

Anyone done any of this??