Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

• Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks, that will be useful knowledge to have when it happens to me

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)

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• biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.

  Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re lucky enough to be middle class you might get easy access to soap and olive oil

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• Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Any body of sufficiently rapidly running water should suffice.

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