HERB - Here's the Soap reciper ....

[Christine A Seelye-King]

They did use lye-based soap, there are recipies for hair soaps in Digby
and other late period sources.  They also used hair rinses.  The herbal
ingredients in them are used today in herbal hair products.  Rosemary
water for a rinse for brunettes, Chamomile water rinse for blonds.  Rose
water and lavender, hyssop and other flowers are all used.  
Christianna

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:38:29 -0500 Kathleen Keeler
<kkeeler at unlserve.unl.edu> writes:
>After all the soap recipes, I have to ask this:
>I'm off to the War of the Lilies tomorrow and gradually I am working 
>toward
>making it a Medieval experience.  Or at least not obviously modern.
>So:  what would my persona --Norman England, 1199 (King Richard just 
>died, Long
>live King John!)
>use for shampoo?
>Just any bar soap?
>How my hair looks is not an issue:  ladies of my status don't show 
>their hair
>to any but their husband--once I'm out of moderns my hair is covered 
>all week.
>So in a way shampoo is irrelevant, but its one more step
>to thinking about the Middle Ages all week.
>Hmmm, they didn't have terricloth towels either...
>Agnes
>
>
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