# Use fats and charcoal to make soap?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/use-fats-and-charcoal-to-make-soap/20495>\
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**Created:** [June 23, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/use-fats-and-charcoal-to-make-soap/20495 "2019-06-23T00:02:53Z")\
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Is there any easy way to get soap? because otherwise it seems very difficult to clean filthy items.  
a good work around would be the ability to craft soap through combining animal fats and charcoal/wood ash like they did in the old days

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You can. Lye is made of wood ash and you can combine it with oils to craft soap.

EDIT: [Relevant recipe](http://cdda-trunk.chezzo.com/soap/craft)