Soap?

[David Scott]

Let's not forget naturally occurring sodium carbonate in dry lake beds, Natron is one example. Or plant sources such as soapwort. We don't need to go entirely alchemical to produce soap.

[soltakss]

On 9/26/2022 at 3:21 PM, Darius West said:

What do people think about the possibility of soap in Glorantha?

The RQG rules, p 66, have the following items in a Healer's Kit: lotions, ointments, salves, herbs, soaps, razor, tweezers, bandage.

So, yes, Glorantha does have soap.

[ChildOfEru]

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Castile Olive Oil Soap, Spain, 2000 BCE

Legend has it that the first soap was accidentally produced on Mt. Sopa, a site of animal sacrifice. As the goat meat burned, fat dripped down through the fire, bonding to lye leaching out of the ashes. The combination flowed down the mountainside and collected in the clay of the riverbanks, where women used the clay to scrub laundry clean. Although soap was known in the Fertile Crescent as early as 2000 BCE, it was used in the treatment of wounds and in hairdressing before its cleansing properties were understood. <SNIP>   Although the Arabs used animal fat for their soaps, the abundance of olive trees in the Mediterranean area led to the development of soaps based on olive oil and lye from the ashes of the barilla, a common plant. The soap shown here is Castile soap, an olive oil soap of the region of Castila, Spain.  -- https://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsc07b.htm

 

If you do your animal sacrifices correctly, the gods add the additional gift of some soap.

No reason not to have bronze age soap.