Timeline for How did people wash dishes before dish detergent?
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 7:42 | comment | added | Luaan | Wood ash on its own is an alkali. Ash+fat = soap. So, a detergent. In fact, it's thought that a major use of tallow in the medieval times was for making soap. The "ecological" argument is undermined a bit by the necessary wood burning and dumping the soap water in the ground ;) | |
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 3:53 | history | answered | Defrance | CC BY-SA 3.0 |