SIOUX CITY — Traditional soaps materialize from two key ingredients: A kind of oil or fat (olive oil, hempseed oil, castor oil, animal fats, whatever it may be) and the highly caustic and toxic ...
My column a couple weeks ago contained a reference to 2,980 pounds of potash being exported from Catskill in 1787 and almost 40 times that much pot and pearl ashes being exported 15 years later. My ...