HERB - soap with stuff in it

[Gaylin Walli]

Awfully descriptive subject, I know. I've been looking into
and researching soap making during our periods and I was
wondering if anyone can point me to information on herbs or grains
that might have been included in soap. I know a lot about
how I make it now and in the colonial times, even in the 1700's,
but I can't seem to find any primary or even secondary evidence
of soap additions that are period. Does anyone have primary or
secondary record of them? Am I just not looking in the right places?

I've got three gallon-sized ziplocs of tallow in my
fridge just CRYING to be made into soap this weekend. Between
that and castille soap I'll probably be making, my cats are going
to have plent of little kitty beds in the blankets. (For those
of you who don't have cats, mine like to sleep on the soap
boxes while the soap cures because of the exothermic reaction
of the lye and the fat/oil. Kind of a little kitty space heater.)

Jasmine
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