RacerSpuffy
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I don't think that the old ways are "lost", just very few people make it that way anymore and those that do probably don't post to internet forums. So I did a google scholar search with a time frame of 1600-1935 and got a lot of results. I haven't read any outside of a cursory glance, but this may be a good start on getting a little more clarity on how it was done: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=wood+ash+soap+&hl=en&as_sdt=0,26&as_ylo=1600&as_yhi=1935
Smegmatalogia, or the art of making potashes and soap, and bleaching of linen. By which the industrious farmer is taught to bleach and wash his cloath with the produce of our own country That one has a recipe. From 1736
Smegmatalogia, or the art of making potashes and soap, and bleaching of linen. By which the industrious farmer is taught to bleach and wash his cloath with the produce of our own country That one has a recipe. From 1736
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