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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wash the wound with soapy water, apply cloth that has been boiled. Yeah that should have a better survival rate than most of human history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Soap is animal fat and what in a survival situation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

What if there’s no leech wood?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yep, IIRC hardwood is what you want to be using to make the lye