FROM HEMPSTEAD. SO THERE’S COCONUT OIL, WHICH GIVES CLEANSING POWER FOR THE SOAP. AND THEN WE USE LARD PIG FAT. IT’S A MIXTURE THAT ONCE BLENDED AND SET. ONCE IT’S CUT, IT GOES ON THOSE TRAYS TO CURE.

File this week’s Craft Corner project under “quick holiday gifts,” and don’t be surprised if it turns up again (in abbreviated form) in our annual “five gifts-ornaments in an evening” story later in ...