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RE: You Should Reconsider Your Homemade Laundry Soap - Part 2
Up until WWI, they used regular soap made from fats and ashes. When there was a shortage of fats and oils during the war, they had to make a different cleaning, thus detergents were made. Another motivation for making detergents was to find something that would clean well with hard water and not leave a residue.
I imagine the development of automated washing machines played into that as well, wouldn't it? Soap might be more doable when scrubbed over a wash board next to a stream of running cold water, than being sloshed around inside a machine.
I believe so. Isn’t it ironic how all these inventions were made to make our lives easier and it seems all they did was make them more complicated(and expensive).
The price we pay for convenience!!
Interesting. I wonder how different their soap making techniques were then compared to now? I should research the history of soap making. Our family has been delving into the art of soap making the last few years and it would be fun to learn the history with the kids. You've got my gears turning. ;)