Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

• biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.

  Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you can make impromptu harsh soap by just washing your hands with some wood ash, your hands will probably be chronically dry and red but at least you can definitely have reliably clean hands and tools, combined with wearing some thin leather gloves whenever you’re outside the home.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re lucky enough to be middle class you might get easy access to soap and olive oil

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• Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks, that will be useful knowledge to have when it happens to me

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)

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• Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Any body of sufficiently rapidly running water should suffice.

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