Editing Soap

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'''Soap''' is a particularly useful type of [[bar]] used for [[clean self|personal cleaning]], which increases happiness ("recently took a soapy bath") and lowers the chances of an [[Health care|infection]] in case they are [[wound]]ed, and for cleaning [[wound]]s in [[hospital]]s, preventing infections from developing. It is thus a vital commodity in dwarven [[health care]], and one not traded in [[caravan]]s: you're going to have to make some soap yourself.  Since soap is considered to be a bar it can be used to make [[constructions]] and [[workshop]]s.

Soap is made of two components, [[lye]] and fat (either [[tallow]] or [[oil]]), and requires a dedicated workshop, the [[soap maker's workshop]]. It has a somewhat complicated production process; lye must be produced at an [[ashery]] from [[ash]], which in turn must be created at a [[wood furnace]] from [[wood]] logs that must first be [[woodcutting|cut down]]. [[Tallow]] is rendered from [[fat]] from butchered [[creature|animal]]s at a [[kitchen]], requiring either [[Meat industry|livestock]] or [[hunting]] activities, while oil must be [[pressing|pressed]] from seeds or rock nuts at a [[screw press]], which first requires [[plant gathering|gathering]] up or [[farming|growing]] [[crop]] and then processing them at the [[farmer's workshop]]. One unit of tallow or oil plus one of lye creates a single bar of finished soap.

== Hygiene ==

 

 

 

A convenient way to keep an emergency stockpile of soap is to use it as a building material for workshops or constructions such as walls. When/if you need more soap, you can deconstruct and get the soap bars back. Since soap in a hospital is reserved for hospital use, this is especially useful in case you start to produce soap before setting up a hospital.  

== Trade value ==

Soap has no quality modifiers when it is created and as a "bar" has a rather moderate base item value of 5☼, only adjusted by the material value modifier of the tallow (1 for most animals) or oil (5 for all oils) used in production. The resultant trade prices thus range from 5☼ (tallow soap from ordinary animals) and 25☼ (plant oil soaps) to 75☼ (dragon tallow soap) per bar.  Since most oils require three separate jobs to create ([[plant processing]], [[milling]] and [[pressing]]) and soap requires another three jobs ([[wood burning]], [[lye making]] and finally [[soap making]]), producing soap for export doesn't make economical sense.

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