Editor’s Note: Some times it is best not to know and that last piece of information leaves me wondering if
I really want to continue using soap to wash myself with.
Lye is also known as caustic soda.
It is widely used in industry, mostly as a strong chemical base in the manufacture of pulp and paper, textile.
Worldwide production in 1998 was around 45 million tonnes. I don’t know how it is made today, but it used
to be obtained by leaching water through wood ashes and collecting it in a pail under the ash box of the family stove.
Cleans
your skin and the drains.
Through a chemical reaction it converts oils and fats to what we know as soap.
Lye is also one of the key ingredients in drain openers such as drano and liquid plumber because of its unique ability
to convert greasy buildup into a soluble substance thus clearing a clogged line. Lye should be handled in the same way
as
drain cleaner, bleach or pool chemicals would be handled.
If mishandled it can be a dangerous
chemical and can cause harm to you and others.
How Soap cleans.
Soap cleans by acting as an agent between water and dirt. Soap allows the water
to wet the surface that is being cleaned. Soapy water tends to soak into the surface being cleaned allowing the water
to wash away dirt.
Dirty dealings in the cleaning industry
Liquid Soap
William Shepphard
first patented liquid soap on August 22, 1865. In 1980, the Minnetonka Corporation introduced the first modern
liquid soap called SOFT SOAP. Minnetonka cornered the liquid soap market by buying up the entire supply of the plastic pumps
needed for the liquid soap dispensers. In 1987, the Colgate Company acquired the liquid soap business from Minnetonka.
Floating soap was a mistake.
A soap maker at the Procter and Gamble company had no idea a new innovation
was about to surface when he went to lunch one day in 1879. He forgot to turn off the soap mixer, and more than the
usual amount of air was shipped into the batch of pure white soap that the company sold under the name The White Soap. Fearing
he would get in trouble, the soap maker kept the mistake a secret and
packaged and shipped the air-filled soap to customers
around the country. Soon customers were asking for more "soap that floats." When company officials found out what happened,
they turned it into one of the company’s most successful products, Ivory Soap.
Save Our Saucepans Soap Pads
In 1917, Ed Cox of San Francisco, an aluminum pot salesman, invented
a pre-soaped pad with which to clean pots. As a way of introducing himself to potential new customers, Cox made the
soap incrusted steel-wool pads as a calling card. His wife named the soap pads S.O.S. or "Save Our Saucepans." Cox soon
found out that the S.O.S pads were a hotter product than his pots and pans.
http://www.sdahq.org/cleaning/history/
http://www.geocities.com/arts_crafts_soaps/Recipes.htm This soap
recipe has only three ingredients, but 16 steps and won’t be ready for three weeks.
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