A Sturdy Life Begins From Surviving on a Deserted Island

Chapter 60 Toothpaste and Soap! 【One more request for flowers】

"how is this possible?"

Liu Kun smiled and shook his head, then pointed to the herbal pieces that were put aside.

"You know what happens when oil is mixed with alkali?"

"Saponification?"

"right!

Common coconut oil toothpastes are made with coconut oil and baking soda.

However, we didn't have baking soda so had to use these herbal powders instead. "

Having said that, Liu Kun pointed to the small pile of powder that is the most and most broken among the herbal powders.

"This is something about as alkaline as baking soda.

So, you can use this thing instead of baking soda. "

Liu Kun said, he took out a relatively sturdy wooden stick, and then tied a simple wooden pallet to one end of the wooden stick.

He used a rope to tie a heavier stone as a weight.

Suddenly, a very simple scale is ready!

Pour the coconut oil over the broad leaves, then weigh the coconut oil and the baking soda replacement powder separately, and adjust the weights to be roughly the same.

Then mix the two together and give the coconut oil a quick paste.

Add other Chinese herbal powders to make coconut oil toothpaste have good antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

Finally, pour the prepared toothpaste into the bamboo tube prepared earlier, and the coconut oil toothpaste is finished!

"You can try this toothpaste tonight~"

Liu Kun smiled and handed the toothpaste to Su Xi, then he came to the house and took out some glutinous rice - which he found when he was harvesting rice.

Although the number is very small, it only looks like two or three pounds with the shell, but it is enough.

"Aren't you going to make soap?

How did you get the rice? "

"Soap is not in a hurry for the time being, but I have an egg to determine whether the lye I prepared can be used.

This is not rice, this is glutinous rice. "

Having said that, Liu Kun handed the glutinous rice to Su Xi.

"You peeled the shell for me, then add some water, put it in a pot and boil it, not too much water, and finally boil it into a paste."

"Ow~"

Su Xi nodded, although she didn't know what Liu Kun was doing with this thing, but she didn't ask.

Because she will know sooner or later.

After Liu Kun explained these things, he took the engineer and shoveled out the door.

He's going to chop down some more trees.

By the way, I dig out a few more birdhouses and see if I can find an egg.

Among the tropical rain forests, the most important thing is the big tree.

Likewise, there are many kinds of birds.

However, the fact that there are eggs in the bird's nest is really something that can't be found.

Liu Kun has been out recently. Every time he sees a bird's nest, he goes up a tree to look at it, but he has never found a bird's egg.

So although he had already prepared the plant ash lye, he had never had the opportunity to test whether the lye was up to the standard of making soap.

Walking in the rainforest, listening to the chirping of insects and birds, Liu Kun felt very peaceful.

"Working at the sunrise, living and breathing every day, this idyllic life is really a kind of enjoyment~

The only downside is that it's a bit hot..."

Liu Kun sighed with some emotion.

This is completely different from the city he used to live in. After the novelty has passed, he still feels very comfortable.

"Um?"

After Liu Kun saw the traces on the ground, he suddenly stopped and walked over to check it carefully.

"Is it a pheasant?"

After a while, he came to the conclusion that this was the trace left by the pheasant.

Moreover, very fresh, obviously the pheasant is not too far from here.

Seeing this, Liu Kun temporarily stopped the idea of ​​continuing to chop down trees, but followed the traces left by the pheasant and began to look for the location of the pheasant.

Following the traces, Liu Kun saw the pheasant in a "shack" made of plants after a while.

To be precise, a pheasant.

"This guy is quite good at choosing places~"

Liu Kun was a little surprised when he saw the "natural shack" and the pheasant in the den with its eyes closed.

Then, he touched a stone and walked over there cautiously.

When you get to the right distance, throw the stone directly and forcefully.

With a "slap" sound, the pheasant was knocked unconscious.

"It's done!

Harvest a pheasant! "

Liu Kun smiled happily, cut a few vines nearby, and came to the pheasant.

However, just when Liu Kun wanted to tie up the pheasant and take it away, he unexpectedly found that there were three eggs under the pheasant's butt!

"There are eggs! Unexpected joy!"

There is a big difference between a rooster and a hen, although Liu Kun had already discovered that the pheasant was female.

But he really didn't expect that this chicken still has eggs!

"It's good this time, and you don't have to go looking for eggs anymore."

After collecting the eggs, Liu Kun is not in a hurry to cut down the trees, but sends the hens and eggs back first.

"I am back!"

"So fast?"

After Su Xi heard Liu Kun's voice, she quickly turned her head to look.

As a result, I happened to see the pheasant in Liu Kun's hand, and another egg in his hand!

"Wow!

It was eggs and pheasants!

Is this a hen? "

"Yes~

Come on, we can make soap now. "

Liu Kun found a cage, packed the hens, and brought Su Xi to a bamboo tube.

This bamboo tube was the ash water of plants and trees that he soaked in when he first came. It has been 6 days now, and the alkalinity is almost enough.

I took a slightly smaller egg and put it into the bamboo tube, and found that the egg sank suddenly, then slowly rose again, and finally floated in the alkaline water.

"It's done!"

Su Xi is even more excited than Liu Kun.

As a girl who prefers cleanliness, in this tropical rain forest, I really suffer!

So, she felt an indescribable excitement when she thought of having soap to use.

"Yes~"

Liu Kun nodded, then began to filter the lye water with a cotton cloth and weigh it with a simple scale.

After that, mix it according to the ratio of alkali oil to 3:5-because he can't determine the alkalinity of this plant ash water, so he can only mix it according to this approximate ratio.

"Do you want to use soap?

That really good smelling, all-natural, coconut-oil soap? "

"Want acridine!"

Su Xi didn't think too much, nodded directly, and then realized that Liu Kun's smile was a bit strange, and she couldn't help feeling fooled.

"What are you doing!?"*