Mix Lard and Lye for DIY Soap

Hand washing is very important, especially for a physician’s pre-patient contact ritual or routine. It acts as a way of preventing infection and the spread of disease. We’ve come a long way in improving sterilization techniques like hand-soap, and now we can even make our own DIY soap! All it requires is mixing sodium hydroxide with lye and water in a safe way. When making soap, follow all safety instructions and you’re on your way to a cleaner, safer you!

Key Takeaways:

• Although using soap in every sort of medical and food-preparatory instance is now in 2020 an ingrained part of daily life, 150 years ago it was not at all.
• It was not all unheard of for doctors to proceed from one bleeding, suppurating, sore-ridden patient right to the next one.
• in 1847 one doctor and statistician began to analyze and grapple with the problem when he realized that one ward in particular was experiencing a 500% higher than average incidence of puerperal fever.

“First, be sure you understand that sodium hydroxide, or lye, is a powerful chemical and must never contact skin, eyes, lips, wooden table tops, and so on.”

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