Chapter 389: Making Soap
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Because the experimental fields in the Imperial Manor were planted one or two months later than ordinary grain, the crops in the experimental fields had just grown up when the others had already harvested them.
Since she had nothing to do, Jian Qingqing started to play with some small things.
When people transmigrated, there were three treasures-soap, glass, and cement. Many transmigrators relied on these three treasures to earn a lot of money.
As for Jian Qingqing, she could forget about glass and cement. Although she had learned a little bit of the principle in school, practice and theory were not the same thing at all, unless she could find a genius who could make a real object based on this theory.
But geniuses were hard to come by, and she had never thought about it.
However, soap was still something quite nice.
In her previous life, there was a period of time when she especially liked to make handmade things, and one of them was soap. At that time, she had piled up boxes of handmade soap and even gave many of them to her friends. Therefore, after a few days of leisure, her desire to make soap began to stir again.
Jian Qingqing ordered people to find the materials for making soap, lard, plant ash, and lime powder.
Plant ash and lime powder could be used to make alkaline water, and then some spices could be bought. These spices were not used for food, but for incense.
As for the color, you can pick some flower petals with good colors to extract the pigments.
When it came to using petals to extract coloring, it could also be used to extract essential oils. Jian Qingqing thought for a moment. There didn’t seem to be such a thing in this era. Rich people usually used dried petals for bathing. They usually wore dried flower sachets. These dried flowers had a very light smell and had no effect when used. They were not as strong as the fragrance of essential oils.
Thinking of this, Jian Qingqing could not control her heart to make money.
Although she had a lot of money now, who would mind having more?
The Princess’s Manor had been busy these two days, preparing the things that Jian Qingqing needed.
There was a big garden. There were many precious flowers planted in it. Jian Qingqing asked people to pick all the flowers that could be used to extract the beauty essence.
The most common method of extracting essential oil was the distillation. Jian
Qingqing spent a lot of time setting up a simple device.
She was busy making soap and essential oil.
Soap was usually a mixture of lard and alkaline water. After two or three days, it would be taken out and become soap. Its oil removal and cleaning abilities were very good.
She made two different styles. One of them was basic, without adding anything.
The other was a scented and colorful soap with essential oils and coloring. Naturally, it had to be sold at a higher price.
However, essential oils were a lot more difficult to make. Only a little of it could be made from a dozen catties of flower petals, and they were all used on soap.
Jian Qingqing swore that this scented soap had to be sold at a very expensive price. Otherwise, it would be a waste for her to pick up so many expensive flowers.
After ten days, she made about 500 pieces of scented and colorful soap and countless pieces of pig soap.
He also made some essential oils and sealed them in small bottles. There were more than 100 bottles.
After doing all this, her shop, Liuxiang Pavilion, was opened for business.
She had opened up a courtyard in the mansion to make soap and essential oil, so she handed it over to the maidservants after teaching them how to make soap and essential oil.
The lifelong contracts of the maidservants in the residence were all in her hands, so she was not afraid that someone would betray her and leak the secret recipe..