BORROWED

For stocking up/being prepared to do everything by hand:

Clothesline and places to hang it indoors
Hard wood clothes pins
Hand wringer and something to fasten it on
laundry racks
plastic basins and tubs
bleach or bluing

Washing soda
Borax
Baking soda
Sodium hydroxide
Potassium hydroxide, if you want to make liquid soap
turpentine
pine tar
tea tree essential oil
lavender essential oil
rosemary essential oil

sugar
salt
pectin
distilled water
white vinegar

goggles
long-cuffed rubber gloves
stainless steel pitcher (plastic will do if it is designated for soap making only)
stainless steel spoons
stainless steel wire whisk
stainless steel or enamel pot
two bath or candy thermometers with stainless steel clips
digital scales that weigh to 1/10th ounce or in grams
paper towels
plastic wrap


lard
vegetable shortening
castor oil
olive oil
sunflower oil

petroleum jelly for greasing molds
freezer or butcher paper for lining molds
Tupperware or Rubbermaid containers to use as molds (cardboard boxes will do, too)

If ironing is needed: sad irons or gas-powered irons
ironing board, covers, pads, and ironing cloths

Excellent soap making reference:

http://www.millersoap.com/

Two sites with lye calculators:

http://www.summerbeemeadow.com/

http://www.thesage.com/calcs/lyecalc2.php

laundry racks
Convert your old wooden clothes pins to the newer heavy duty plastic ones.The plastic is holding up much better. I found my plastic ones in the hardware department at Wal Mart a few years ago.......................not the cheaply made ones found on the laundry equipment aisle.

Something else to have on hand: a plastic janitor-type mop bucket with removeable mop wringer. Wash and rinse clothes in the bucket and squeeze them out in the wringer.