Soap Making

Learn to make all-natural soap in our hands-on workshops. Our soap making courses cover the cold process method and the hot process method. For more information, see the courses listed below.

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Elizabeth Adams

Elizabeth Adams first learned to make soap from her mother when she was nineteen. Since then, her family and friends have been the glad beneficiaries of her soap-making endeavors. She apprenticed under two master soap makers who taught her more advanced skills. For the past five years, Elizabeth has enjoyed teaching students with Ploughshare from as far away as Mexico, South Africa and the Netherlands.

Rachel Scarbrough

Rachel has been making soap for 20 years. Her enjoyment of this craft, along with encouragement from family and friends, led her to open Artista Naturals as an outlet for her specialty soaps and soap making supplies, which she sells at at Homestead Craft Village. Rachel has been teaching for the last 12 years and helped develop the curriculum that is now used in the Ploughshare soap making classes.

Hannah May

Hannah began making soap 17 years ago at her home in Central Texas. Over the years, she has continued making basic soap for her family and has expanded her skills to make specialty soaps with a variety of minerals and other ingredients to add color and texture. For the last 7 years she has been teaching soap making with the Ploughshare, where she shares her enjoyment of this craft and has inspired many others to take up soap making.

Soap Making

Soap Making

An Introduction to Hot- and Cold-Processed Soaps

Basic Cold-Process Soap

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