Dizzy
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Post by Dizzy on Jun 16, 2006 3:15:41 GMT -5
On Pern, soap made of lye and fat is a very rare item. Instead, the Pernese rely on fuller's earth, lanolin, saponin root, oils, and sweetsand.
Sweetsand, a naturally foaming fine sand, can get out the stench of firestone and works also on any other strong smell or heavy soil. Everyone bathes with it.
Sapion root and lanolin are used for sensitive skin nad fine hair. Fuller's earth, a rare clay, is good for the complexion and for cleaning certain kinds of fabrics. Oils and vegetable waxes are good for leaning floors, and still other herbal oilds make do for skin treatments
Teh recipe for soap still exists, but the chief ingredient, lye, is difficult to get. In order to make lye, water is run through hardwood ash. Hardwoods are so precious that to burn up a valuable supply of wood for soap is considered absured. Toward the end of an Interval, when hardwood is in greater supply, someone to whom the recipe was passed down through the generstions may save up all the scraps and sawdust and make a small quanity of scented bars as a luxury item.
Now that hardwoods are being cultivated in Lemos and elsewhere, the Woodcrafthall intends to make soap a sideline.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 80)
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