making your own soap the wash coladeras types of

making your own soap the wash coladeras types of

WASHING TECHNIQUES
Soap making / the laundry / Types ofcolanders
MAKING YOUR OWN SOAP
Ingredients:
250 grams of soda.
2 Kg of lard or tallow from the fat of the lambs.
5 litres of water.
Preparation:
Work in a well ventilated room or outdoors.
1st: Put a pot of water on high heat, and then slowly add the caustic soda.
2nd: Pour in the fat or lamb while constantly stirring in circles in the same direction, for about
two hours.
3rd: The soda corrodes the organics, dissolving the fat to form a viscous mass with the consistency
of soft cream and decanting to the bottom of the pot, lye (lexiba), which is very abrasive.
You will know the work is done well when the lye from the bottom is poured in the Surface and
returns to the bottom without mixing with the soapy paste.
4th: Turn off the heat and remove the dough with a spatula to drain the lye.
5th. Place the dough in wooden crates or boxes with low profiles, making paper moulds to
protect it.
6th: The Lye is collected in suitable containers. It is very abrasive and can damage your hands
by touch.
7th. After a night of rest, the dough hardens as it cools, “curdling” and then can be cut into
manageable pieces with a wire or guitar-string knife.
THE WASH
3rd. Ashes of quejico
/ caxico, haya / fau
are placed, from
beech trees and other
types of oak.
CENISERO/
LICHERO
COLADERAS
In the wash, the process is repeated several times “six passes at warm, six
hot, and six boiling”
2nd Hot water is
poured on the ashes
1º the water is heated
COLADERO/
ROSCADERO/
CANABLA
2nd. It is covered with
a thick cloth and tied
around the fine sieve
of the strainer.
COLADERA
The water that has
passed through the
ash filtered clothing
is collected (lexiba)
1st.
The
folded
clothes are placed
in an orderly manner
inside a fabric that
protects the walls of
the strainer.
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