KafkaX
Mr. Self Destruct
I use aerosol spray because fuck the ozone.

^ It's more of a melt and pour technique, but it's super doable and really safe. So technically speaking, real soap-makers wouldn't call it truly "handmade", because you'd melt glycerin and add your oils, butters, milk etc and mold it. True soap-makers use lye but lye as you probably already know,is kind of dangerous and it's a lot harder and i dont know how to do that. But with this way you can still totally use it to trade/gift all that.
You use vegetable glyercrin blocks (you can get them in huge pounds) as the base
You melt it down to make it liquify and while it is liquified you add all the things you'd like in it. I add coconut oil, shea butter and this thing that I forget the name of i think its some form of cacao butter and whatever else i have lying around. Then you mold it in a soap mold tray. Or something you an use as a molder. You can get super creative with the molds... i've seen many videos of people using rubber stamps in their moldings to create hearts and nice shapes inside the mold. It sounds like a lot of work but it's not too bad.
I'll search for a YT-video that explains this much better than I can.
PS sorry for awful spelling i'm on my phone at the moment.
Thanks for the info. If you find that YT video, PM it to me