How Do You Make Natural Shampoo From Yucca Root?
The different species of yucca – some of which are known today as Spanish bayonet, Adam’s-needle soapweed, Datil, Whipple or dagger plants – are of prime economic importance to many indigenous tribes of the American Southwest. The pointed, waxy leaves furnished excellent fibers for weaving. Along the stems of flowers and creamy white flowers have been used by Apache as food and – most important for our purposes – the roots of the yucca provided many native Americans with a natural shampoo and laundry soap natural. Yucca Root (called a mole) contain the compound saponin, which has detergent properties and seems to exert a particularly beneficial effect on protein fiber of animal origin. And there is no reason why you can not try a yucca soap yourself, because the versatile plant – previously classified as Liliaceae, but more recently included in the new family Agavaceae – are located in south-west (and to some extent, south-east), United States, Mexico and the West Indies. Collecting an
