Friday, July 27, 2007

The Basics of Making Soap, Part 5

This soap can be used for all bathing, hair washing, dishwashing and clothes washing purposes. (It’s what our ancestors did). To dissolve and make very weak suds, try using a knife to shave off flakes or a cheese grater to grate some of the bar soap into the water. You may want to make a couple of different types of soap so that you are not using your softening body soap to wash the dishes or clothes.

Soap-making is also a skill that could be of trade value or useful in a barter situation. It’s possible that a neighbor who hunts or butchers hogs will provide the fat, while another neighbor may provide the lanolin. Then the one with the soap-making skill would actually make enough soap to provide for the three households.

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