A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 23. (Békéscsaba, 2002)

Erostyák Zoltán András: The last soap-making manufacture in Orosháza

Az utolsó szappanfőző műhely Orosházán world war, that period was not favourable for the private industry. The railway building works made Orosháza an important point of junction of the trade in the SouthGreat-Plain. The animal trade (the number of the swines was especially very high) was an important part of this trade. László Fehér soap-making craftsman started his career as butcher, but he lost his industry during the nationalization after the second world war, than in 1953 - when the politics eased - he got the licence for soap-making, in that he as butcher was well experienced, because the butchers always boiled the „offals" of the swine slaughtering. The revolution in 1956 increased in a large scale the turnover of the manufacture, that operates even today. Nowadays the elder people, the people with skin diseases and allergy purchase the soap, or it is exchanged to the fat taken from home. The change of the eating habits contributed in a large extent to fact that the manufacture operates even today as a family undertaking. Erostyák Zoltán Szántó Kovács János Múzeum H-5900 Orosháza, Dózsa Gy. u. 5. E-mail: erizoli@hotmail.

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