honey soap
(from Confederate Receipt Book. A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times, 1863)
Ingredients:
(from Confederate Receipt Book. A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times, 1863)
Ingredients:
2 lbs. common yellow or white soap
1/4 lb. honey
perfume
Instructions:
Cut into thick shavings two pounds of common yellow or white soap, put it on the fire with just water enough to keep it from burning: when quite melted, add a quarter of a pound of honey; stirring it till it boils, then take it off, and add a few drops of any agreeable perfume. Pour it into deep dish to cool, and then cut it into squares. It improves by keeping. It will soften and whiten the skin.
Honey has been used for centuries for food as well as for medicinal purposes. One of the ways to use honey is to make honey soap or a relaxing honey bath.
Honey is used as a dressing for wounds as it is helpful in healing minor cuts and abrasions by drawing excess water from the tissues and reducing swelling. Honey contains a germ killing substance which helps prevent infections.
Honey is also a healthy snack as the glucose and fructose in honey have been predigested by the bees that produced it and are easily absorbed by our digestive tract.
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