Might as well expand the process and make some Lard Soap, waste not want not.
I remember my grandmother making that. Used it for doing laundry.
> Might as well expand the process and make some Lard Soap, waste not want not.
You joke, but the very first commercial soap manufacturing was commissioned by General Robert E Lee. Lee remarked that his troops smelled rather bad, because none of them had their wives around to make them soap. He ordered his chief of commissary to set up a factory in Richmond to make soap for the Southern troops. Making soap was always a task done in the kitchen with lard and other fat drippings by the woman of the house. After the war, the soap factory continued its production. There was small scale soap production by perfumeries and cosmetics houses, but that was a specialty item. If you wanted soap for bathing your family, you made it yourself.