My MIL, bless her heart, she just turned 99 on Friday. She used to make homemade lye soap. It was a concoction of lye, chicken fat and 20 Mule Team. She made it up in a rectangular pan and then would cut it up into bars. She would sell it at the farmers market in town.
I heard all kind of stories from healing skin rashes to stopping itching. She always had shavings of the soap left over after she cut the mixture up into bars, then she used the shavings to wash clothes in the old 1936 Maytag Ringer wash machine.
Funny thing, she hasn’t made soap for about 10 years and I still got people asking about it.
I do have a couple of bars left and a bucket of shavings, still have the old Maytag and she’s still kick’n at 99. Musta been something in that old lye soap. :)
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