Liu Yuhan suddenly interrupted everyone while they were chatting animatedly. "I'd like to open a soap workshop on the few acres of flat land outside our wall. What do you think?"
"What is soap?"
"Uh, it's a scented soap. It can be used for washing clothes or for bathing and shampooing."
"Can this be done? We usually wash clothes with soapberries picked from the mountains."
"Well, this is a recipe that my master and I came up with. We've tried it and it works."
"If this can be done, wouldn't it be very convenient?"
"Well, wait until I make it tomorrow and then everyone can take a look."
"It's late, let's all go and rest. Danier said that if it can be done, it can be done. There is no result yet, so please keep quiet." said Old Lady Qin.
The four adults have not forgotten that their granddaughter (daughter) is blessed by God. Whatever she says she can do may be what God tells her to do. They adults just need to cooperate with her.
Liu Yuhan had considered making soap and perfumed soap. Now that there was a place and the timing was right, he decided to do it.
Poor families usually wash clothes by hammering them with smooth wood or beating them on smooth stones. Some also use wood ash and soapberries to wash clothes. They usually use rice water or soapberries to wash their hair.
Poria is only used by wealthy families. It is a traditional Chinese medicine. If you add some spices to the water soaked with Poria, it will have a richer fragrance after use.
After breakfast, Liu Yuhan prepared wood ash, fine cotton cloth for filtering, coarse salt, and lard.
It would be best if you could add burnt shell powder. Next time I can just ask my grandmother and the others to help collect the shells.
First, pour the wood ash into the water and bring it to a boil. Then add the fried lard and continue heating while stirring constantly. Once the lard is boiling, simmer on low heat. Continue heating and stirring constantly to allow the oil to fully saponify.
This process takes a long time, at least half a day, and the higher fatty acid sodium produced in the process is the main component of soap.
After the materials in the pot are saponified, add salt into the pot and stir to dissolve the salt fully to promote the coagulation of the soap base. After this step, you can use fine cotton cloth to filter out other impurities.
Let it sit for 3-5 hours until it sets.
Scoop out the materials that have been left to stand, and when taking them out of the pot, scoop out the upper layer of soap liquid and place it in the soap box and wait for it to slowly solidify and take shape. After it takes shape, it becomes the soap base.
The soap liquid is formed in the box, and the old-fashioned soap is completed. If it is at room temperature, it will generally take shape overnight. If the weather is cold, it will take at least 2 to 3 days.
The result is ordinary soap that can be used to wash clothes.
If you want to make it more upscale, you can spend some time in the mold box, make some floral patterns on it, add different types of flower juices into the soap, etc. In this way, a soap with patterns, fragrance and color will be formed.
Liu and Li were always around Liu Yuhan, operating the business, and they cooperated whenever Liu Yuhan needed their help.
Liu had seen the magical method of making ice before, so she was not that surprised. Everyone else in the family was very surprised that lard, wood ash and coarse salt could actually be made into fragrant ice cream. Wow, although it was magical, it was also very wasteful. This was the white oil usually used for cooking, and salt was also very expensive.
The next morning, they saw that the soap, which had solidified and turned dark yellow, could easily wash the dirty clothes, and the oily hands could also be washed clean with soap. Everyone exclaimed in amazement, and this hard thing was also very durable. They also felt that the money spent on the lard and coarse salt was worth it.
Soap is used in every household. If we can promote and sell it, it will be a good long-term business!
Liu Yuhan now only makes simple soap, a crude soap made using ancient methods.
She bought a lot of laundry soap and bath soap in her space, but never used them.
She poured shower gel and shampoo into bamboo tubes and asked her family to use them when taking a bath. The fragrant, smooth, and bubbling stuff really opened their eyes.
They thought that Liu Yuhan must have spent a lot of money to buy this thing, so they were reluctant to use it and only poured a little bit each time, so there was still a lot left in the small bamboo bucket.
Liu Yuhan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Since you have decided to open a soap workshop, let's find someone to build a house first, and set up the workshop, chicken farm and pig farm together.
Liu Sinan rode his horse to find craftsmen and order materials. Tiles were used for the roof and mud was used for the main body.
The workshop has several separate workstations, each in its own room. This recipe is neither mysterious nor difficult.
The difficulty lies in how to maintain it when the time comes. Apart from doing each step separately and asking the workers to sign a contract, we can only take one step at a time.
The wild flowers in the mountains are in full bloom now. You can ask villagers who have time to pick them. If there is honey, collect it as well. Honey is a good thing. Adding flower petal juice and a little honey to soap, or adding a little honey to Chinese medicine facial mask will have better effects.
In addition to the soap workshop, we will build two more workshops to make Chinese medicine facial masks and pharmaceuticals in the future.
Yes, Liu Yuhan and his master have discussed that they can make the Chinese medicine into pills and sell them. It is more convenient and faster to take the pills than to boil the medicine, and the medicinal effect is stronger and the effect will be better.
It’s just because pills are expensive, difficult to preserve, and labor-intensive, so few pharmacies will make Chinese medicine pills to sell unless a distinguished customer requests customization.
Liu Yuhan and his master discussed several commonly used pill prescriptions, including those for typhoid and colds; stomachaches, diarrhea, and gastrointestinal problems; and those for stopping bleeding.
There is also pain-relieving powder, which was called Ma Fei San in ancient times.
Traditional Chinese Medicine has the concept of "Ma Fei Tang," but it has nothing to do with anesthetics. Another theory suggests that "Ma Fei San" may be a mistake for "Ma Huang San." Regardless, there's no such thing as a safe and effective anesthetic that can be taken orally alone to achieve full anesthesia, eliminating the need for intubation or other nursing care.
Legend has it that Ma Fei San was an anesthetic drug invented by Hua Tuo for use in surgical operations.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Biography of Hua Tuo, states: "If the disease originates internally and cannot be cured by acupuncture or medicine, the doctor is first instructed to take Ma Fei San with wine. Once the patient is intoxicated and unconscious, the doctor then cuts open the abdomen and back to remove the mass."
Unfortunately, the prescription of Ma Fei San created by Hua Tuo was lost later.
According to legend, the first prescription consists of 6 herbs in total, including 1 jin of Datura flower (also known as Datura flower, Wantao flower, Zuixin flower, and Dog Walnut), 4 qian each of raw Aconitum, Angelica dahurica, Chinese Angelica, and Chuanxiong, and 1 qian of Arisaema.
Another theory is that it is composed of 3 qian of Achyranthes bidentata, 1 qian of jasmine root, 1 liang of angelica, and 3 fen of calamus, and one bowl of decoction is taken.
According to later research, these were not Hua Tuo's original prescriptions. He copied these two prescriptions, tried them out first, and then handed them over to his master, who was particularly fond of studying these prescriptions.
If Ma Fei San could be developed, it would be used to treat trauma or other diseases requiring surgery, and patients would no longer have to endure this.
It can also reduce some medical accidents. You know, human pain tolerance is limited, and people can really faint and die from pain.
If Ma Fei San could be developed, it would be the most significant and important breakthrough in the history of ancient medicine.
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