About Me

Welcome to Easy Homemade Soap!

My name is Deborah Clark.  After 33 years as a Registered Nurse, I retired in 2012 to embark on a new path.  I have a BS in holistic nutrition.  I am a vegetarian and am gradually moving toward a more high raw diet.  I am one of the co-authors with Greg Reid of the book, Initiative.  I have three grown children and three grandchildren.  I live with my life and business partner in Yuma, AZ.

Most of my 33-year career as a nurse was spent in the operating room.  My hands would breakout from the harsh detergents we used to scrub our hands before surgery.  Then I developed an itchy rash in my underarm area, which turned out to be due to an allergic reaction to the commercial deodorant/antiperspirant that I was using at the time.  After trying a few different commercial brands, I tried the natural products in the local health food store.  The rash cleared up and never returned.  These two issues got me thinking about all of the other personal care products and household cleaners that come in contact with my skin.  The skin is the largest organ of the body and absorbs the ingredients in the soaps, lotions and other household products that come in contact with it.  Those ingredients end up inside our bodies.  It occurred to me that if it isn’t safe to eat, it probably isn’t safe to put on my skin either.

Over the past several years, I have researched and used natural homemade soap and various other natural personal care and household cleaning products available online and in health food stores.  Much to my dismay, I found that not everything sold in the health food stores is truly healthy.  Reading and understanding the labels and ingredient lists is as necessary a part of informed shopping in a health food store as it is in an ordinary grocery or drug store.  The more I learned, the more passionate I became about both what I put in my body and what I put on it.  My friends and family are probably tired of my lectures, so I decided to create a blog where I can share with everyone concerned about the health of their bodies and the health of the environment the dangers of many of the ingredients found in commercial skincare, hair care and household cleaning products. 

As an alternative to the standard commercial products, I plan to share some easy homemade soap recipes so you can make your own homemade soap, skincare, hair care, and household cleaners.  Although with these easy homemade soap recipes many personal care products can be made from ingredients you already have on hand, most of us are too busy or simply prefer the convenience of ready-made products.   With that in mind, I will also be providing product reviews of the natural products I buy and use myself.  Thank you for visiting and please stop by often.