Chatter has been making soap for about six years. She first became interested in soap making because her and Chitter are both very sensitive to just about everything—including soap. She also liked the idea of homemade soap being healthier for one’s skin.
Chatter took a soap making class and read a lot of books on the subject. The first time she made it at home I helped her and we broke two glass jars before we got the lye/water mixture right. I was ready to give up but she persevered and has been making soap ever since.
We use a lot of the soap she makes, but she also sells soap through The Pressley Girls Etsy Store here. It pretty much sells out as soon as she lists a new batch.
I really love the soap, it feels very luxurious to me. It suds up really well and it always smells so good!
When I was growing up we mostly used Ivory soap. Every time I smell it I’m taken back to being a young girl standing on my tip toes to watch Pap lather up a bar of Ivory soap then smooth the bubbles across his face—from the tops of his cheek bones to the curve of his chin. Then with sure fast strokes he wiped it all off with the end of his razor only leaving behind small lines of soap that disappeared as soon as he wiped his face with a towel.
Pap never thought about spending money on himself, not even for something as needful as shaving soap or a shaving brush.
Miss Cindy told me her mother Bonnie saved all the unused bars of soap when she worked at the YMCA. Bonnie took them home and put them in a mesh bag and then used the soap to wash clothes and other things.
Several years back RB, a Blind Pig reader, said her mother tied up soap slivers in rags and then threw them in with the laundry. And her grandmother kept a mason jar near the sink to save soap pieces in. Once they collected several they added hot water and stirred gently to make a sort of liquid soap that could be used to clean various things.
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is two bars of Chatter’s soap. Leave a comment on this post to be entered. *Giveaway ends November 9, 2022.
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If anyone knows about sensitive, it’s me. My skin is sooo sensitive. I have to get sensitive wash detergent for our clothes. I would love to win the soap to try it. Made at home is so much better. Thanks Tipper and God Bless!
Every time I see homemade soap I think of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies, making soap by the cement pond. 🙂 That show was a parody, but people like that are survivors! We used Ivory and Dial, I think, when I was a little girl. A whiff of it and I’m a little girl again!
I love the natural fragrance of homemade soap. There’s nothing better than homemade soap and rainwater to bath with and wash your hair.
My mother told us when she was young and even when her and dad first got married in 1941 she made soap from woodashes, and bacon grease or lard.
I think I would much prefer Corie’s soap.
I’ll take homemade soap over store-bought any day; actually, that’s becoming more and more true for just about everything I buy these days.
I also remember the smell and softness of Ivory soap. I think I would love Chatter’s soap. I also have tried to catch the opportunity to buy some, but it is gone before I get to it. Just a testament to the quality of Chatter’s soap, I think.
I remember my Pop Pop saving soap pieces, adding that hot water and making a liquid type of soap. A lot of your content makes me think of him and I am grateful to you for that Tipper.
I would love to win a bar of Chatter’s soap. Heck, I’d like to buy a bar of her soap! By the time I see where she’s made a new batch, it’s already sold out. I watched her video on making soap in the past. Thought about trying to make it, but decided to leave it to the experts.
Homemade soap is the best! You know there are no yucky things in it and it has to be better for your skin. I would love to win some. Headed to her Etsy shop right now.
I would love to win some of Chatter’s homemade soap. It sounds wonderful! Homemade things are always the best!
Good Morning! Just want to say thank you for all those fabulous recipes and gardening info. I went to the ETSY store to check out the soap but none was listed. I will keep checking back. Sending you much love and many blessings.
Thanks again for sharing.
I have used a few other handmade soaps in the past, and didn’t really like them. But Chatter’s soap may change my mind. Thanks for offering the generous giveaway to all of us!
I feel the pain of being sensitive to everything….allergies are a pain. I need to look into this sea!
We made soap many years ago at Girl Scout camp. I remember being scared to use the lye. I reckon the counselor over cautioned us.
I do love homemade soap. At one time, I was able to buy soap that I could use on my hair, face, and body, but the lady stopped making it because of the arthritis in her hands. I would love 2 bars.
Oh I would love to have her soap.
I love homemade soap. I usually buy a bar anytime I’m at a fiber festival.
Please don’t enter me in the drawing. But I do want to comment on Corie’s soap. I love the spearmint soap she makes. I think I have bought about 10 bars of it over the past year. I am going to need some more, soon. It is my all time favorite. It has nice suds and the smell–is so fresh and clean. So, Corie–I keep watching for you to post that you have soap available.
I still use Ivory soap, but I’d sure love to try Chatter’s homemade soap!
I must have missed the video with Corie making her soap. I’ll have to look for it on YouTube.
it would be great to be a winner of one of the bars of soap. I have watched Cory’s video on how she makes it. It does seem to take a lot of work. Thank you for sharing.
I would love to win the soap for my wife. This has got me thinking, growing up my Mom sometimes bought Ivory soap but usually Dial or Irish Spring. After I got married my wife bought all 3 with Irish Spring probably being our favorite. I honestly don’t know how long it’s been since I used a “bar” of soap. Yes, I’m a clean person and shower daily, but I have used liquid body wash (Old Spice) for years, the soap at our bathroom sinks are both dial liquid soap. My church, my job, and outside family (Mom Dad, sisters, married children)all (mainly) use liquid soap to the best of my knowledge. I looked in the cabinet and we have a bar of Ivory and Zest.
I know work places went to liquid soap several years ago for sanitary reasons or so I heard.
I have bought and used soap from Chatter. I absolutely love it. I was amazed at how long a homemade bar of soap lasts.
my grandkids have sensitive skin..would love to try out the soap..thank you!!!!
I love watching you and your daughters interact, I appreciate your gentle and loving way with them….no doubt they are simply, the greatest thing you’ve ever done☺️
Homemade soaps are so nice to use. The feel of it all lathered up and the smell is wonderful
I still use Ivory soap to bathe with, it rinses off so nicely, I stick the last sliver of the bar onto the top of a new bar so as not to waste. If you tumble polish rocks it’s also the very best thing to use for the final tumble.
Oh boy! Looks like we all want in on this on! those girls are very industrious.
I’m another person who would love to try Chatter’s soap, as I am sensitive to almost every soap I’ve ever used, including the ones a dermatologist recommended for sensitive skin. I try to keep an eye on the etsy page but have never gotten there at the right time. Maybe I’ll be lucky with the giveaway 🙂
p.s. I’ve dusted off my blog, Comptonia, and am posting lots of little things to get back into the rhythm of writing regularly again. Fingers crossed.
I relly liked the videos y’all did on making soap! I’ll have to watch again I would like to try making soap. Glad Corrie does.
I loved Ivory soap, but my 3 sisters were allergic. No Ivory soap for me until I rented my own apartment.
Homemade things are always the best. A homemade gift is a gift from the heart. I hope I win this special gift from Corrie. I know it will be sweet and mild like her. She and Katie are very special to me. You all are!
I would love to try Cory’s soap! My husband and I love watching your videos and I read your BP&TA blog posts everyday!!! When I make homemade jam/jelly my husband says “Tipper would be proud.” We live in Florida and I just made a delicious jelly from the berries of the Pindo palm tree, which is also called a Jelly palm. So good!
Ivory soap brings back a lot of memories for me too. I’m so glad that Corie is making good homemade soap. Stuff we make ourselves is a lot better than that store bought stuff they sell. 🙂
Good morning to all! Corie’s soap would be such a special treat. I’ve looked to get a few bars, but ordered from someone that posted under the Pressley site. Ended up getting a 5 #lb box of scraps. I was disappointed. I put them to good use by wrapping them in cellophane individually, and donated them to Operation Christmas Child Shoe box ministry.
Blessings
Betty-sorry about that! We don’t have any control over who Etsy recommends in those ads. Hopefully you can get some of Corie’s when she lists it again 🙂
Yes, it would be a real treat to win some soap made by Corie!
Glad to see young people learning crafts in a time when you can’t get most out off the phone or out of the bedroom I believe alot of them would get lost in their backyard Love your page and the music All Hope is not lost also Love watching the girls page such inspiration!!!
What you say is true, but who is at fault, the children or the parents. Now most children have everything given to them and instead of being Told or Made to do something , they get Asked. Then if they don’t do it, the parents will do it and the children get by with not doing what they were asked and without any punishment.
Hi Tipper! I recently discovered your YouTube channel and have watched a video almost everyday since. I really enjoy reading your blog posts and learning about Appalachian culture, food and traditions. You and your family seem so welcoming and down to earth. What a blessing to grow up and live in such a beautiful place with so much tradition. I didn’t know that your daughter made homemade soap. I am definitely going to have to give it a try! My skin is very sensitive to dyes and fragrances found in commercial soaps, so I am delighted to learn that Chatter makes a natural soap. I look forward to more of your posts. One love.
I also grew up using Ivory soap. When I visited my grandparents home, my grandmother always had a bar of Lifebouy in the bathroom. I never saw that soap anywhere else.
I buy home made soap whenever I see it at craft fares or our local farmers market. I keep the bars in the dresser drawers with my sweaters and shirts until I use them. Then my clothing has a wonderful fragrance when I wear them. I’ve looked for Cories soap on Etsy but never find it…..now I know why.
Would love to try the soap!
I made soap years ago, and I should try again.
I understand that Chatter makes her own soap since I have very sensitive skin myself and can not use many of the bar soaps one can buy. And the ones I can use usually do not foam up nicely. I will look into Chatter’s soap. Maybe I will be lucky enough to get some before they are sold out again (and if she ships to HI, not everybody does). I also understand that working with lye is not for everybody. I use food grade lye in my (German) lye rolls (think German pretzels, but since that is a lot of work, I shape them like a hot dog bun). I was born and raised in Germany, but have lived in CA for over 20 years and now live in HI.
I would love to have some of that lovely soap!
I still use Ivory shower soap but I would love to try Chatters soap. Happy “thankful November”
Smelling ivory soap also takes me back to childhood.
Giveaway ends November 9, 2022 Chatter’s soap. I have a neat little mesh bag I got like 30 years ago at a Rite-Aid and I have always saved soap slivers but still use them in the shower. I don’t see any reason to waste!
Commercial soap has so many chemicals – natural soap is the way to go!
I bet Chatter’s soap is awesome. I would love to try it sometime when I can catch it on Etsy!
Good Sunday morning to all my Blind Pig friends. I never consider my Sunday morning complete without an infusion from one of your stories, a song or a story about your family and friends. Also, I have seen the video where Corie was making soap. It is no easy task, and I can see how the hard work she did in learning how to do it and then to do it well has paid off. Hats off to Corie and the whole Blind Pig family. And please keep that good music coming too!
“Frugal is as frugal does” was a favorite saying of my Aunt Ferrie. When I went “off to war” (her phrase in 1965), she gave me a small mesh bag she had sewn. It was to keep slivers of soap to use when washing up and was just like the ones she made for her boys when they went off to WWII. A year or so later, I ran out of shaving cream, so I dumped the slivers in my shaving bowl and lathered up. It worked so well, I still use soap slivers for shaving. And I still have her mesh bag, where I accumulate all the slivers until I need them. Thanks for prompting this long lost memory of Aunt Ferrie and the wonders she would work with her treadle sewing machine.
This is how my dad and most of my uncles lathered up every morning that I remembered. Heck, I even got lathered up and “shaved” once in a while, good times, great memories.
I have always wanted to learn how to make soap myself, but have enough projects on my plate at the moment. I love your site and the gospel music is wonderful and I also watch the Pressley Girls channel on YT. As another mother of twins, this would be a special blessing to receive. God Bless!!!
Maybe Corrie should be making larger batches of soap. If she sells out almost immediately, she should try tripling her output to see if she gets similar responses. She could then invest in more and larger equipment with the proceeds.
Growin’ up in Eastern Kentucky, I rememember three soaps in my early childhood. We used two brands in particular; our normal hand or bath soap was “Lifebuoy” and “Lava”, which had grit in it to remove harsh dirt and grease. Of course, our third soap used was homemade lye soap for our laundry. Well remember my grandmother making up batches, letting it firm up, and then cutting it into usable size cakes. Am a user of “Ivory”, today and have been for many, many years. Am sure Chatter’s soaps have great fragrance and skin cleanser appeal; we always keep a bar or two of homemade soaps in the basket in the guest bath. It’s often a well liked surprise…..
I was lucky enough to get some of Corie’s soap on Etsy several months ago. It sells out fast, and she does a great job making it!! I also remember Ivory soap as a child. The distinct smell and how it floated in the bathtub like a little boat. I remember my Grandmama making lye soap outdoors in a big, black pot and the smell of it you don’t forget. Tipper, I enjoyed the reading last night. I learned so much and it’s so interesting!! Thank you for sharing that book!!
The first things I usually gravitate to in a county store are the homemade soaps. So many wonderful smells and pretty bars. I would so enjoy this gift.
If my memory serves me correctly I remember using Ivory soap (that floats) and then later on Dial. I now really love homemade soaps and that is all I use.
“Ivory Soap! 99 and 44/100ths percent pure. It floats!”
I too have fond memories of my Dad shaving with Ivory soap. He still uses it to this very day because he is allergic to most everything. I have a picture somewhere of me holding my blankie standing next to my Dad as he is shaving. We both have huge smiles on our faces. I am so happy Mom took that picture because it takes me back in time. ❤
Tipper, I too recall the feel and scent of the Ivory soap that my Grandmother always had on hand. As children we loved our baths at her house as the bars of Ivory not only cleaned us, but they also made wonderful floating ‘toys’ in the tub. As for my granddad, it was Lava soap all the way. He used it to clean his hands when he came inside. He always smelled off the outdoors, Lava soap and pipe tobacco. Happy days of purity and simple enjoyment.
Homemade soap, I love the smell, the lather and the feeling of being clean. I am blessed to have the wooden paddle my dear Great Granny used to make soap.
I would love to try Chatters soap I got a free sample from Buff City soap when I joined Planet Fitness called Narcissist. I loved it. I also got some goat milk soap. Would love to see how hers compares to this. Thank you.
I grew up with Ivory soap too. Sometimes we’d find a fancy bar of soap in our Christmas stockings. Then we felt like rich people! My Grandma used Dove soap for her face and Dial for bathing. The smell of Dove, especially, takes me back to Grandma’s house. I’d love to try Corrie’s homemade soap. I enjoyed the video of her explaining the process but haven’t been able to purchase any from her yet. Thank you Tipper for your work of celebrating Appalachia and for offering these giveaways each November.
Have enjoyed watching the videos of Corrie making soap. Tried several times to find it on Etsy but it is always sold out (wonderful for her). Would love to try it
Love homemade soap. I have very sensitive skin and have a hard time finding anything I can use. I remember Ivory soap and the “Ivory soap stories around a bonfire”. Thank you so much for sharing Appalachia with us on your vlog.
Tipper, just like your Pap, all our soap slivers went into a heavy duty coffee cup. My dad would swish the soap around with a short handled shaving brush, put the suds on his face and shave. In our house it was the green bars of Palmolive soap, rather than Ivory. Your story brings back many happy memories as today it is the anniversary of my dad’s death. Although I don’t live in Appalachia, many of your stories are similar to the ones that I grew up with.
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I bought several bars of Chatter’s soap a few years ago and loved it. One bar was so pretty and smelled so good I left it on the bathroom sink for my guest to use. When you featured her soap-making on your blog a while back, I hung on to every word. After the video, I thought I would be brave enough to try making a batch. My first batch turned out ok. I used patchouli essential oil which made me a fan of the fragrance for life. The process of soap-making takes too much patience for me to try again. I will let Corrie make mine. Her soap is a great price and lasts so much longer than the store-bought brands that are made with chemicals.
I would love to win Chatter’s soap! She is so talented in so many ways!
I remember soap being made outside in a big black pot during hog killing. Mama told us about her mama making soap & Mama meant to help her. She got her hands down into the liquid soap at the bottom and her skin peeled off–scared her to death of course. Mama kept a jar of that liquid sitting on the window sill beside the cabinet where she washed the dishes. My father decided to scramble eggs and used some lye soap for the grease! This was a rough soap & I don’t think it really lathered much. I do remember Mama and my MIL talking about how the soap made their hair shine.
If I wasn’t scared to death of the lye, I would love to try making soap.
I would love to try her homemade soap, i have very sensitive skin and this may be my answer to the problem! Thank you for your post.
Mama and I used Sweet Heart soap which was marketed toward women. It was a pink or white oval bar with intricate scrolling around the edges. I can’t remember what it smelled like, but must have been something “girly”. eBay has vintage bars for sale at a ridiculous sum.
The blacksmith has been making soap for years. Our favorite is Pine Tar. He uses it for everything, from washing, to shampooing, and shaving!
We used Ivory as well when I was growing up. What takes me back to childhood is the smell of Jergen’s Original Scent lotion. My Granny kept a bottle by her chair and would put a dab on my hands when I sat with her. As I got older she made sure I had a small bottle to keep with me. To ‘stay soft and smell perty’ she would say. lol Homemade soap is so much healthier than the store bought.
I washed my daughters’ diapers in Ivory. Nothing smells better than clean diapers washed in Ivory and line dried in sun and wind! Even the “freeze-dried” diapers – the ones that were stiff as boards two minutes after I hung them out on a cold winter day – smelled good when I brought them in.
I love homemade soap! I’ve been using it for years. I’d love to try Chatter’s soap. I smash the slivers onto the new bar and it eventually becomes part of the new bar. No waste!
We used a lot of Ivory soap in my youth. Also used Lava soap for really grimy,dirty hand washing. I would like to try some of Chatter’s soap. Sounds like a big improvement over the stuff I buy at the dollar store.
Oh, I would just love to try some of Corie’s soap!! I used to make it but don’t have time to do it these days. I hope all is well with you and your dear family. God bless you all!❤
I remember my Mother and I used Ivory and my Father and Brother used Lifeboy. They said ivory was sissy soap.
Growing up I was taught to keep the soap slivers in a mesh bag too. I grow up the daughter of parents that were born during the Depression. We were taught to save & reuse foil, & to keep rubber bands instead of throwing them out, too.
It would be a joy to try this soap. Take care and God bless ❣️
I have been wanting to learn to make soap for a long time. I have been canning away but also feel the need to make/stock up on other items.
Chatter’s soap is the best, I love bathing with it! I know that I can trust the purity of it and that is far better than anything you can buy in the grocery store!
I would love to try some of her soap. My skin is very sensitive. Thank you for the memory of watching your father shave. My mother made lye soap but it was used mostly for laundry and to get rid of chiggers and poison ivy.
I have a very hard time trying to find soap that won’t cause my skin to flake. Whenever I see homemade soap for sale in small shops (like JCC gift shop:) I will try a bar. So far, not much luck. I wished Corie’s soap was available ever since you did a video a few years back showing how she made it, but didn’t realize she had an Etsy shop. I will keep checking! Thank you!
Sure brings back memories! I would love to try some of Chatters soap! My husband and I have sensitive skin! I still buy Ivory soap and also use it on our great grandchildren!
I have enjoyed watching the videos of Corie making soap. She has a real passion for it, and I am sure it must be excellent. I’m always a little too late in ordering from her; it sells out fast! I would love to try it, and hope I win!
We always used Ivory soap. When we went to the creek to swim in the summer, we took the soap and had a bath while there. The great thing about it was that it floated, and we never lost it!
When I would go visit my Grandparents on their farm in the 50’s & early 60’s, my Grandmother would boil well water & fill a bushel tub on the back porch for my bath. They didn’t have a bathroom like I was use to. She always had Ivory Soap & I marveled at how it could float. I remember she kept Jergens Lotion on her dresser & I loved the smell. It smelled like cherries to me. I would love to try Corie’s soap! I have sensitive skin, too.
Home made soap is the best! I have steered away from what is sold in the stores after researching the different ingredients that are used and finding the “soaps” are really detergents. I’ve watched the soap making video Chatter and you made a year to 2 ago and it was so interesting to watch and the process looked so easy. I ordered some of the pinetar soap last year from you that she made and I used it to wash my hair a couple of times a week. It’s so gentle and leaves my hair clean without some sort of coating. We love home made soaps!
I would love to try Chatter’s home made soap. So many of today’s soaps are so harsh on your skin. I’m going to look for it in Etsy. I love reading your emails, please keep them coming!
i remember Ivory because it would float…when mom would haul out the washtub to put me and my brother in when we were little the soap floated on top and it was a game to try to make it sink.. mom always kept a jar on sink to put little scraps in as well and when it got about half full she’d mix it all up pour the liquid “soap” off in washtub or whatever and make a new “bar” mashing the softened scraps together..
Whenever I travel, I bring home the used bars of soap provided by the motel. I either put them in a mesh bag or in a bottle of liquid soap to dissolve and make it last longer. We’d love to try some of her homemade soap. Just looked on their Etsy store, and it’s already sold out. Congratulations on your success, Chatter. Just read an article that perseverance is one of the most important traits for children to learn to be successful. Your family is a great example of that trait.
Oh, I would love to try the soap!
I love your stories. It seems I always learn something from theses stories from simpler times.
Ever since I’ve started using homemade soap, my skin looks and feels more moisturized. I too am sensitive to lots of chemicals like your girls. I get dry skin patches I call “ TATER” but it’s eczema. I remember my grandma saved soap slivers although I never knew why. But today ( thanks to you Tipper) I know. My new motto is “whatever it takes” and I see from all us hillbillies here, we do just that! Lol Have a blessed day all!
Both my grandmothers made their own soap. As a kid my family bought bars of soap. All I remember was Eagle Lye and ashes were used. We saved the scraps and melted them together to make another bar.
My mom use to buy Ivory soap. Its smell always takes me back to my childhood. I luv Corrie’s soap!! I have a type of rosacea that manifests as a painful rash and have tried many ‘natural’ & medical products over the years w/ no real positive results. I have used Corie’s soap for ~ a year now and for the 1st time in 20+ years, have had only 1 very minor outbreak occurrence. Now I’m not saying her soap is a cure but I can not ignore the results. Have an awesome weekend!
We used ivory soap all my growing up years. I used it with my son and with his children. I have tried many different homemade soaps and can say that Corie’s is the best. Matter of fact, I need to order more as I am on my last bar.
I would to win some of her soap. I’ve not been able to buy any on Etsy and I would love to try it. Thank you, to you and your daughters for having such uplifting videos. I look forward to every new one you post and have even been watching a lot of your older ones.
As or some stats to get thin, I get out a new bar, wet it, and then rub the old and new together until they adhere to each other. They eventually meld into each other so I never have to throw any away!
We always used Dove growing up.
I do that with my favorite bath soap. Old and new pressed together meld firmly overnight, and not one gram is wasted. I use Coast, but other brands would probably exhibit the same properties. I’d bet that Chatter’s soap would be included.
As we know, mass produced is usually mediocre. Hand crafted puts in the care and skill that machines can’t have. I got some of Chatter’s pine tar soap last year and it was better than Grandpa’s except I should have let it cure longer and get harder. It’s not a scent for everybody but for me it has lots of good memories associated and is a guy kind of smell, like campfire smoke.
And about waste, what did the disciples do with the 12 baskets of fragments they took up at the feeding of the 5000? Did the lad who gave up his 5 loaves and 2 fishes get them, or some of them maybe? There is a lesson there I’ve never quite seen into.
Tipper,
SOLD OUT!
3 BARS, Cedar Clove Soap, Handmade Soap, Natural Soap, All Natural Soap, Sensitive Skin Soap, Cedar, Clove, Fall
$15.00
Ivory soap brought back memories of my brother and I playing in wash tubs and using it as boats. We would put toothpicks in it like sails. Momma would save the used pieces and put them in a jar to use for other things. She always had some on the back porch where we would wash up before supper. I would love to try some of Chatters soap, didn’t know she made it. As always enjoy your post. God bless
What a wonderful gift that would be! Your story about watching Pap shave is so sweet and brings back dear memories of watching my daddy shave!
When a bar of soap becomes a thin sliver, we suds it and the next bar well and attach them together. When they dry, they’re stuck with no waste.
I am always amazed by the multi talents of those girls. I remember when many made their own soap. My sister has the privilege of remembering when she was taken by my grandmother to a home of two young neighbor girls to teach soap making.
I purchased bars of Chatter’s soap for my granddaughter a few years back. She loved it!
I’d love to try some of Chatter’s homemade soap. It sounds really special. Even if I don’t get some in the giveaway I’m going to buy some at the girl’s Etsy store. By the way, I hate the smell (and taste) of Ivory soap. I had my mouth washed out once with Ivory soap when I was a child because my granny heard me say the Lord Jesus Christ’s name in vain. She was very strict about things like that. I only said it once… and never again.
Having sensitive skin with psoriasis I’m wondering if Chatter’s soap would be something I should try?
We love her soap. Got five bars in May and we still have a couple. Great stuff!
Keep those memories coming
We only use homemade soap. My husband had stage 2b melanoma and we have tried to get rid of all toxic skincare items. I remember Ivory soap in our home as well. The smell takes me back to childhood too!
Ivory takes me back to the spring-fed swimming hole where we country boys bathed and swam after a hard day’s work.
I always use homemade soap on my face as it’s so creamy and lathers so we’ll. I would love to try Chatter’s soap.
My soap memories are of the gold Dial bars – my granny always had that kind and the smell will always remind me of her.
We have used Dial soap for many years, most often the gold bars. There is something about Dial that is suppose to be good about helping fight infection after surgery or just your normal everyday scraps and scratches. My wife was told by her doctor to wash with it before and after her skin cancer surgery. At one time, I like to use safeguard soap because of the smell. I need to use Lava because I can just look at something mechanical and get grease on me, but I just keep GoJo handy. My young grandson called it Papa’s mojo soap after using it to clean magic marker marks on him.
Randy, you mentioned Lava soap. When I was at home barning tobacco, we would get tobacco gum all over our arms and it was either Lava or homemade lye soap we used. It would take it right off. The Lava rings a bell with me. Would you know of another kind? All I know it was really good soap. Grandmama made lye soap, but I’m just not sure.
Gloria if you are referring to GoJo. It is a gel type of soap used mostly by mechanics and others in those type of professions. It is kinda like WD40 it can be used to remove a lot of things even rub on clothes to remove grease stains. A lot of different companies make similar soap under different name such as fast orange. You will most often find it in the automotive section of stores such as Walmart. It will be in containers from a pint size up to a gallon. A lot us old timers refer to this type of soap as GoJo no matter the brand name.
Yes we grew up with Ivory bar soap, aka “ tub soap “. Now we buy the soap from Amish products, it lasts a long time
Chatter’s soap is wonderful. I was lucky enough to purchase a bar recently and I love it! I don’t mean to sound selfish, but I am surely hoping and wishing I win this Thankful November gift! Thank you.
I remember watching my Daddy shave…a fascinating thing to most children!
Chris’s soap is awesome!
One Christmas as a child I recall my talented Aunt saving soap bits and dying them red and green then shaping them into pretty balls that graced the bathroom vanity all thru the holidays. l adore the content here from Tipper and members, brightest blessings to all y’all!
Ivory soap takes me back to my childhood also. I still use it to this day.
I love reading all of your wonderful stories first thing in the morning.
Your writing about using Ivory soap brought back the smell of the green Palmolive soap we used growing up. It was a harder soap and didn’t melt away as quickly, making it last once Mama could no longer make her own soap. There were ten children in my family and few dollars to spend.
Wow, I have used some of the ‘soap’ memories you shared and chuckled at some of them. I am currently on the last bar of Chatter’s wonderful soap, as I shared part of that order with my children, so when I return home from this Red Hat Convention, I will place my next order. Thanks for the reminder. Have a Blessed day.
Good morning. I just discovered your blog and I look forward to reading more of its content. This one reminded me of simpler days.
I am also pleasantly surprised to discover the link to the Presley girls that I listen to on YouTube.
The Ivory soap story also brought me back to my youth and I swear I could smell it :o)
I would be very thankful to win the Chatter’s soap bar giveaway. God bless you and your family.
I adore her soap! I have a tiny piece left from the last order I received from her several months ago. Every time I think to look at her Etsy site to order more, it’s sold out again. It’s wonderful!
Thank you for sharing with us! I love handmade soap and maybe one day will learn how to make it myself.
How frugal to save soap slivers to use for other purposes. I always hate to throw them away seems wasteful. Now I have some ideas. Making homemade soap is a wonderful old timey skill to keep in practice. I love the old ways.
Always think of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies when I see homemade so. However I think Granny’s soap would be a little too strong for my aging skin. I love that your girls are so involved with things of yesterday. Happy Thanksgiving ♡
Soap making is an art or maybe just having the right recipe. I made soap once using directions I got on-line. It was harsh and nothing like luxurious. I used that soap til it was gone. I need a class LOL . Maybe I better buy some from Chatter.
My maternal grandparents used ivory soap. I don’t remember their advertisement slogan but I think it was something about being so pure it floats. I have a jar by the bathroom sink that I put the small pieces of soap in and use the gel for hand soap.
I would love to win some of Chatter’s soap. I have checked on Etsy several times hoping to purchase some, but I always miss it. By the way, I am so enjoying your reading of My Appalachia. I feel asleep to your reading last night, but it was much needed sleep. I’ve had a hard to time sleeping lately. So, thank you. I’ll have to try again today.
My grandmother always used Ivory soap. To this day, when I smell Ivory soap, I’m taken back to my childhood and getting a bath in her tub after a long day of work and play. Some time ago, I bought some soap from Corie. It was excellent!