Seedsquatch Soaps

long enough to develop strong opinions about ingredients — and an equally strong gag reflex when we stumble across certain advice floating around public forums.


While doing research for our own educational journey (yes, even us woodland cryptids keep learning), we've come across posts on popular platforms like Reddit and soap-making communities where well-meaning folks are casually recommending that fellow crafters grab industrial-grade or drain-cleaner lye to save a buck on their soap batches.

We're not here to drag anyone through the mud. We like mud — it's a good exfoliant. But we are here to talk about what the research actually says, because some of this advice is the kind of thing that sounds totally reasonable until you do the math and realize you've been slow-cooking your customers in trace heavy metals one shower at a time.

So grab a bar of non-toxic soap, step into a clean shower, and let's have the talk nobody in the forum thread wanted to have.