SC - ash and soapmaking

[Stefan li Rous]

Brenna asked:
>Please, if you can, put one or two up.  I am very interested in learnign
>to make period soaps.

While these are the first messages that I have seen that mentioned how to
make lye from ashes (other than a remembered story from grade school), you
might be interested in checking out these files in my Florilegium. I
believe most of these start with manufactuered lye but that might be
preferable at first. I’ve heard that making soap is sometimes iffy. Even
for experienced people, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. So
minimizing the variables at first might be best.

Anyway these are the files I have that might be useful:

in the UNCLASSIFIED section:
soap-msg          (47K) 10/28/97    Period soap and soapmaking.

in the CRAFTS section:
Lye-Soap-art      (23K)  8/ 8/97    The history of and how to make soap
                                       by Baroness Leonora Kathryn de Provence.
Soapmakng-CMA-art (24K) 10/ 6/97    "Soapmaking in the Current Middle Ages" by 
                                       Gillian Fhlaitheamhail (Fraya Davis). 

My files can be found at:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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