Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:56:20 UTC No. 16210646

>>16210471
Alcohol is better for trading and can be used as burning material. You can easily disinfect with alcohol but not with soap. Soap only helps to remove particles on your hand or body but wont guarantee to remove everything. Both aren't hard to produce in a shtf scenario and you can save a lot of alcohol if you use soap which will take a while to use up.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:42:42 UTC No. 16212006

>>16210646

Don't surgeons clean their hands just with soap before an intervention?

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:52:30 UTC No. 16212015

>>16212006
Not JUST soap, no. They use special antiseptic soaps.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:57:15 UTC No. 16212021

>>16210471
To make soap you ned lye. Could be potash lye, made traditionally by burning wood, its in the ash in small amounts as potassium salts, you might need some processing to turn all it into the valuable carbonate form. The potassium was already in the ground, trees just help you concentrate it.
To use the sodium variant, you need to make some concentrated mix of salt and ammonia, and bubble CO2 through it. The CO2 "binds" to the sodium and makes sodium carbonate, while the ammonia binds to the chlorine and makes ammonium chloride. Without the ammonia the solution would be acidic and basically would destroy the sodium carbonate, which precipitates in high concentration. You can get ammonia from pee.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 17:50:30 UTC No. 16212094

>>16210471
Soap is going to be cheaper and less damaging for your skin. You don't need to wash yourself as often as you're used to. For the most part you can toss some herbs on a small fire and take a smoke bath. You only need to actually bathe every week or two or if you start to get itchy. If society collapsed then keeping clean would not be your biggest problem.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 17:56:05 UTC No. 16212107

>>16212006
No doctors prescribe consumption of alcohol to treat infections.