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The Joy of Grease: How to make soap out of what’s sitting in that soup can on the back of your stove

March 23, 2017

There’s a tin can on our kitchen counter that no one goes near, filled with congealed bacon grease. It’s been collecting for months, and I really don’t know what to do with it. Except I DO know and just haven’t gotten around to trying what everyone alive in any century prior to ours would have done: make soap from scratch.

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