What deb said. My first soaps were all grocery store soaps. I think my first one was crisco, OO and coconut. Nothing fancy, but not a bad soap, at all. I got really adventurous, then and tried lard, castor, grapeseed, cannola.. all things I could find in the local grocery store. The coconut was that ugly yelloworange stuff, that they use for popcorn, so needless to say, all my first soap were some shade of yellow. I still have several bars of a margarine soap I made. That puppy is rock hard.