The Saponaria Almanac

A field guide to making historical soap — safely

• 1 ·A short history of soap
• 2 ·The science of saponification
• 3 ·Lye safety and the wood-ash tradition

“Soap is older than most of the empires that used it. The point of Saponaria is to keep the romance and add the arithmetic.”

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