MDMD Anti-Soap

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"Out of our expenses? shall it leave us enough for Candles and Soahp do
You guess?" MD.31

The RS had money problems you know. 

We have an Uncle who sells arms to both sides in conflicts and war. 
We have an Uncle in the business of  Anti-Soap. 




Many early settlers in North America made their own soap. They poured
hot
    water over wood ashes to make the alkali potash. Then they boiled
the potash
    with animal fats in iron kettles to make soap. The soap cleaned
well, but much
    of it was harsh and had a bad odor.

    The soap industry in North America began in the early 1800's. Some
people
    collected waste fats from others and made soap in large iron
kettles. They
    poured the soap into large wooden frames for hardening. Then they
cut the
    hardened soap into bars that were sold from door to door. Since the
early
    1900's, manufacturers have made big improvements in the mildness,
color,
    fragrance, and cleaning ability of soaps.

Detergents and soaps contain a basic cleaning agent called a surfactant
or surface
    active agent. Surfactants consist of molecules that attach
themselves to dirt
    particles in soiled material. The molecules pull these particles out
of the material
    and hold them in the wash water until they are rinsed away.

The surfactants in detergents and soaps also help remove dirt. A
surfactant has
    two distinct parts with different characteristics. One part of each
surfactant
    molecule is hydrophilic (attracted to water), but the other part is
hydrophobic
    (repelled by water). The hydrophobic parts of surfactant molecules
attach
    themselves to any surface other than water. Many hold on to and
surround the
    particles of dirt in the soiled material. At the same time, the
hydrophilic parts pull away from the material and toward the wash water.