Guayacan & 9 other soap plants. 🌿 There's also the saponification reaction of animal fats or plant oils with lye (leached wood ashes), rendering it into soap, but that's a more complicated process that uses an otherwise usually edible resource, whereas the plant parts mentioned are mostly not edible. 🌿 Note that the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. 🌿 REFERENCES - Banks, William H. 1953. Ethnob
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Guayacan & 9 other soap plants. 🌿 There's also the saponification reaction of animal fats or plant oils with lye (leached wood ashes), rendering it into soap, but that's a more complicated process that uses an otherwise usually edible resource, whereas the plant parts mentioned are mostly not edible. 🌿 Note that the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. 🌿 REFERENCES - Banks, William H. 1953. Ethnob
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