No frills

While looking into soap making, I found this website which has the simplest instructions for soap making I have ever seen, including this advice: "I know the trend right now is to add wonderful smelling scents and beautiful tints to homemade soaps. I have given up doing this because both the scents and the colors fade after a very short time, and to me it isn't worth the extra expense and effort."

It also has instructions for toothpaste, laundry detergent, and then a list of apocryphal-sounding cures for warts, arthritis, etc.