HERB - soap with stuff in it

[Gaylin Walli]

Phlip wrote:
>I don't know ANYTHING about soap making, but I'd love to learn.

Well, if you're ever in Detroit (any one of you for that matter)
feel free to send me a note and let me know you're in town.
If anyone is interested making soap this weekend, just
let me know and I'll give y'all directions. Three extra beds
(okay, one bed, two futons, and 2 cats to share them with) for
anyone who needs to stay. :)

>There are a couple of period books out which might have the
>information- I think one is called the Huswife's Jewell,

Well, I've looked through three editions of Markham's "The English
Hus-wife" (1615, 1623, 1631, as printed in the M.R. Best edition).
Nothing in there that I can find. Has anyone got a copy of Platt's
"Delight for Ladies" hanging around?

>I'll try to find a URL for you which has a lot of information
>on home skills.

The soap archives in Stefan's Floreligium are pretty nice,
but I didn't find any information in there about additions to
soap. Nothing in Porta's work either. This can't be a new concept.
It just can't. Maybe French sources? Ooooh, or maybe Spanish sources
with all the emphasis on olive oil production and the prohibitions
of tallow sales to the soap maker's guilds in England....

jasmine "I'm on a quest" de cordoba
g.walli at infoengine.com or jasmine at infoengine.com
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