Harvest: Do The Math

[Richard]

Oceania wrote:

Pickle, you wipe with leaves. the question is, how do you make soap? watch Fight Club.

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or read it, since some of the recipes were different in the movie.

Soap making made easy;

http://pgburrell.home.mindspring.com/id13.html

Oh wait...according to Pickle, we're naked vegetarians!

Well...here we go

Early history

The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in Ancient Babylon.[4] In the reign of Nabonidus (556-539 BCE) a recipe for soap consisted of uḥulu [ashes], cypress [oil] and sesame [seed oil] "for washing the stones for the servant girls".[5] A formula for soap consisting of water, alkali, and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.

The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates that ancient Egyptians
bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline
salts to create a soap-like substance. Egyptian documents mention that a
soap-like substance was used in the preparation of wool for weaving.

But even then...naked vegetarians lacking iron and probably fire..for awhile?? Probably something to do with covering ourselves in oil and...hmmm...well, sounds like fun..but are we actually cleaner?

Richard