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Soap?

Saturday, April 6, 2013 10:25

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Evermore64747 asks: “Is there a way to make soap in wild?”

Commenter 1: “Hygiene is a vital part of survival. Here is an exert from the Army Survival Field Manual 21-76

Extract grease from animal fat by cutting the fat into small pieces and cooking them in a pot.

Add enough water to the pot to keep the fat from sticking as it cooks.
Cook the fat slowly, stirring frequently.
After the fat is rendered, pour the grease into a container to harden.
Place ashes in a container with a spout near the bottom.
Pour water over the ashes and collect the liquid that drips out of the spout in a separate container.
This liquid is the potash or lye.
Another way to get the lye is to pour the slurry (the mixture of ashes and water) though a straining cloth.
In a cooking pot, mix two parts grease to one part potash.
Place this mixture over a fire and boil it until it thickens.

After the mixture – the soap – cools, you can use it in the semiliquid state directly from the pot.
You can also pour it into a pan, allow it to harden, and cut it into bars for later use.”

Commenter 2: “Mix white ash and talo boal strain boal down again, add something that smells good let cool it will turn hard. I think thats the basic of it.”

Commenter 3: “Try this:http://www.motherearthnews.com/modern-homesteading/how-to-make-soap-from-ashes-zmaz72jfzfre.aspx
You can also use sand while sitting in a river…the first “Scrub””

Commenter 4: “Animal far, straw and ash.”