Re: Making your own cleaning products?
Soap plants:
Soapwort:
Best of the soap plants, prized for cleaning delicate fabrics. Crush it in warm or boil for liquid soap.
Horse chestnut:
not as good as soapwort but more common, mildly antiseptic. Crush the leaves in warm water.
Chickweed:
Like horse chestnut, contains saponin and can be used as soap but is inferior to the other two.
A hazel twig crushed untill it frays for brush and wood ash for tooth paste. I have to admit I have not tried this, but is recommended in a survival guide.
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