> Buy lye You're going to be burning wood. Make your own lye. 1 Cut off top of barrel 2 Place layer of ash in barrel 3 wet and pack ash 4 repeat 2 and 3 until barrel is almost full 5 bore small hole in bottom of barrel 6 place bucket under hole 7 pour water in top 8 wait... lye with that and white/hard fat from hogs/whatever you have the two main ingredients for soap learned that in grade school back when history class was real