1850 Soap Making

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1850 Soap Making

• By NICHOLAS 4

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Soap Facts

• Soap could be sold at a general store.
  Pioneers still made their own soap to save money.
  Lye soap is made of two ingredients- lye and
  lard. The lye came from hardwood ashes and lard
  came from pigs. Both of these items were
  available on every farm.

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FACTS ABOUT LYE

• Lye is a chemical that can burn the skin. It is
  one of the ingredients in soap. The pioneers used
  hoppers for lye. A hopper is a wooden barrel with
  a plug on the side. Ashes were placed in the
  hopper and water was allowed to drip through it
  for lye. They pulled the plug from the hopper and
  lye was collected.

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Soap Facts

• Lye is the ingredient in soap that cleans
  clothing, but lard is needed to help dissolve
  greases and balance the causticity of the lye.
  Pioneers melted lard and then combined it with
  lye to make soap.

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Finishing Touches

• They stirred the mixture for hours until it
  began to harden. When the stir stick could stand
  straight up in the soap, it was ready to be
  poured into a box where it hardened completely.
• The soap had to sit for two weeks to a month
  before it could be cut into bars and used for
  bathing, laundry, and dishes.

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