Extract the soapwort by maceration or percolation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
They had fished in the afternoon-Ayla showed him how she tickled a fish out of the water by hand-then she found soapwort and they had bathed and washed their hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
As for shampoo JUst take out Chemicals it works even better by using soapwort and yuccah in farmers would be glad to pay you to get rid of them as thay consider as weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Enviroblog: Thank You For Buying Our Toxic Plastic Archives] Reference
She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Shampoo the hair with an infusion of ritha or soapwort. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Among those still in bloom were the evening primrose, soapwort, and marjoram. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
It was common wayside "Bouncing Bet," but the Harvester called it "soapwort.". From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
Next came carrying the couch grass, wild alum, and soapwort into the store-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvester] Reference
The Sapindus (soapwort) also furnishes one species, S. Page 133 marginatus, which may be useful. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
It has a light fresh scent, smelling more like lavender than anything else, and is filled with ingredients that are good for the skin, such as extracts of aloe vera, butcher's broom, kelp, lavender, soapwort, and walnut shells. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs, and with the decoction of althea roots I make plasters for skin diseases; burrs cicatrize eczemas; by chopping and grinding the snakeroot rhizome I treat diarrheas and certain female complaints; pepper is a fine digestive; coltsfoot eases the cough; and we have good gentian also for the digestion, and I have glycyrrhiza, and juniper for making excellent infusions, and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver, soapwort, whose roots are macerated in cold water for catarrh, and valerian, whose properties you surely know. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
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