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I was banned from r/soapmaking for not accepting that arts and crafts was soap making.
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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You shouldn't gate keep soap making.
I carve designs in them and I still consider myself a soap maker.
You're doing soap arts and crafts and that's fine. You're carving soap that someone else made not making soap. It's like buying a book that someone else wrote, putting a pretty cover on it, and calling yourself an author.
That's called book binding. A perfectly respectable craft.
So is soap arts and crafts.
I make soap. I turn an animal into something you can wash yourself with. If you buy the soap that I made you're not making the soap, I did.
I'm considering authoring a book about soap binding.
If you bound it in linen it would make a really good exfoliant scrub.
This guy soaps.
I melt the shavings down and turn them into new bars so I definitely make soap.
What is the saponification number of the oils that you're using? Are you using NaOH or KOH?
The animal fat I use sometimes is 195-200.
That depends on the soap that I make but I prefer a soft soap using caustic potash.
But these days I'm content with carving the soap, it's not that easy to get chemicals where I'm living.
That's soap making.
I have six 40 kg bags of KOH in my storage building that I was given by a lab that was shutting down in a small city near where I live. I have the advantage of having studied chemistry in university so I speak the language and they trusted me. I found when I got home that they had slipped a number of bottles of chemicals that I didn't ask about into my truck.
Yeah that's how I got arrested for methamphetamine production the first time so I hear you.
Were you making methylamine?
I wasn't making it, but that's what the people put in my car.
One of the other things that lab gave me was anhydrous, pharmaceutical grade methanol. A 219 L barrel. I've been considering doing an tertiary alcohol catalyzed magnesium reduction of the KOH to give me potassium metal. My wife objects.
Careful.
Now I'm about three-quarters of the way through my sentence, carving soap to pass the time and apparently getting punked by lemmings who don't consider it soap making.
Don't let it happen to you.
Very nicely done.
Look at Proctor Gamble do chemicals!
Lye is a natural product. It's the runoff from water passing through wood ash. When you calculate the saponification properly the lye is completely consumed converting the triglyceride into fatty acid and glycerol. Of course, if you're old school you can leave some of the lye in and get the real wash your sins away experience.
Do you have these icons in cornflower blue?
Absolutely! Efficiency is priority number 1.
Reincarnation, then?