Re: [baidarka] AW: Soap

Subject: Re: [baidarka] AW: Soap
From: Garry Jackson (Garry.Jackson@silverbrookresearch.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 22:18:52 EST

Michael,

Thanks for the link to your website. Beautiful shoes. I also learnt a
lot from your site. I will clean my shoes in a completely different way
now. Thanks again.

Garry

Michael Rollig wrote:

>Many Rumanians who live in villages (80% of the population) are collecting
>every drop of used oil or fat from the kitchen pans. When a about a gallon
>of fat is gathered it is boiled in a steel pot over open fire together with
>soda and water for about an hour. When the foamy compound is cooled down
>over night, water and soap is separating and you will find a sheave of soap
>floating in the pot. Fat content of the soap is depending on the proportion
>of soda and fat.
>It still makes economic sense for many Rumanians to make their own soap,
>even when they use dish washing machines. The home made soap is used as a
>multi purpose household soap, hair shampoo (hair rinsed with vinegar after
>washing. We use it as a leather soap with high fat content in the shoemakers
>workshop.
>Hope you all out there enjoyed my little contribution to lost knowledge of
>trades.
>Michael
>
>Saint Crispin's - Genuine hand sewn welted shoes
>
>
>
>Rollig & Co. OEG
>
>Van der N|ll Gasse 61
>
>A - 1100 Wien / Austria
>
>Telefon & Fax: +43 1 602 1038
>
>Mobil: +43 664 4326700
>
>E-Mail: michael.rollig@saint-crispins.com
>
>Internet: www.saint-crispins.com
>
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>-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
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>Auftrag von AEDUIN@aol.com
>Gesendet: Samstag, 04. Mdrz 2006 22:59
>An: baidarka@paddlewise.net
>Betreff: Re: [baidarka] "Aleut Story" on PBS
>
>Just for the record, my father showed me how to use a Slide Rule and where I
>work is adjacent to a Computer Museum that contains working examples of
>obsolescent computers.
>
>People are now making soap, saddlery, coracles and kyaks for fun and some
>for an attempt to live more naturally according to their beliefs. I don't
>think Native Americans or Aleuts can be allowed the monopoly of a wish to
>save or relearn the skills of their ancestors.
>
>Edwin 

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