Some people made home-made lye soap, but soap was also available in the stores if you could afford it.
Yes
In the Colonial times, many people brought over supplies from Europe. The Colonists needed to be sanitary, so they made soap from natural substances. Colonial soap was made using two key ingredients: lye, which colonists made from the ash of wood fires, and fat, which was the byproduct of butchering animals.
Fat and lye made from wood ashes.
The answer to that question is that colonial people did have guns and bought it from the market. They use the guns in duels and other things.
colonial
soap was produced by boiling wood ash lye and fats together
people use soap to clean themselves, plus hundreds of industrial uses
People could use soap to wash themselves and other things.
Biolage
knifes
Yes
Yes.
muskets
Use soap and water.
To make people smell nice.
Soap and bleach are common in laundries.
Soap has been around since the dark ages. but not many people used it. Queen Elizabeth the First herself only bathed maybe twice a yr. they prefered to "bath" in perfume. When the plague came around many people died b/c they didn't use soap. After they figured out the cleaner people were less likely to get the plague, they started using soap. I'm not sure if any one knows who invented soap itself.... scented soap was created in the 1700's during the colonial times by women who wanted to smell pretty. lol. and they made quiet a profit at it too.