Can I use potash to make a bar soap?

Thank you for the most complete information for making potash!

What I can’t find on-line is, can you use commercial potash to make a BAR soap? (plenty of info on liquid soaps)

My friends who use their grey water for their garden told me that my CP or HP soaps which contained sodium hydroxide added too much sodium to their plants and I read that a potassium hydroxide would actually benefit a garden. So in effort to create a “environmentally compatible” soap I am looking for the answer to that question.

Soap calculators have KoH but no one can tell me if it will work

Thanks

SJ

Hi Susan,

“Black Soap” or “Alata Soap” (Alata is a Nigerian name as some claim the knowledge of how to make Black Soap came from there) is made with potash.

With black soap the water is seared out of it in the final stage and the soap is dried overnight. You might be able to find some videos of it being made.

You can also make paste soap which is pretty cool. 1/3 sodium and 2/3 potassium will do it.

All the Best!