[Sca-cooks] period soap (was Period gardening)

[Stefan li Rous]

Balthazar of Blackmoor commented:
> A 'period' soap recipe might keep this
> topic...well...topical, and have the added bonus of
> increasing my knowledge of period activities :)

While I suspect this comment was only in jest, and that you won't
wait the time to create a period soap before declaring biological
warfare on your intruders, here are the files in the Florilegium
on 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.
soapmaking-msg    (57K) 12/21/99    Period and modern soapmaking techniques.
Soapmakng-CMA-art (24K) 10/ 6/97    "Soapmaking in the Current Middle
Ages" by
                                       Gillian Fhlaitheamhail (Fraya
Davis).

In the PERSONAL CARE section:
soap-msg          (36K) 12/21/99    Period soap and soapmaking.

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