Soaps and Shampoos
Bay-rum soap - Fiona asks Roger if he wants some bay-rum soap when he takes a bath (DIA, chapter 2)
Coarse soap made from tallow and lye - the standard everyday soap (V, chapter 38)
French soap perfumed with lily of the valley - Jenny leaves this soap for Claire to use after Claire returns to tend Jamie's gunshot wound when Laoghaire shoots him. Claire knows that this quality of soap is only given to guests and not to family and Jenny is making a statement to Claire (V, chapter 38)
Hard soap made with attar of roses - Brother Ambrose gave Claire several cakes of a fine-milled hard soap made from attar of roses as a parting gift when she left the Abbey (DIA, chapter 16) Attar of roses is another word for rose oil and refers to the essential oil extracted from the petals of roses
Coarse soap made from tallow and lye - the standard everyday soap (V, chapter 38)
French soap perfumed with lily of the valley - Jenny leaves this soap for Claire to use after Claire returns to tend Jamie's gunshot wound when Laoghaire shoots him. Claire knows that this quality of soap is only given to guests and not to family and Jenny is making a statement to Claire (V, chapter 38)
Hard soap made with attar of roses - Brother Ambrose gave Claire several cakes of a fine-milled hard soap made from attar of roses as a parting gift when she left the Abbey (DIA, chapter 16) Attar of roses is another word for rose oil and refers to the essential oil extracted from the petals of roses