Soap Cellaring. A Som Besths Miracle!

[Kobold]

Try Lava hand soap. Your butt will never be cleaner.

Now that will definitely turn your brown eye blue.

 

[karam]

So I've been making my own soap for a long time, and to do it right is not exactly simple. You need to measure and calculate the ratios of ingredients correctly (there are online spreadsheets for that), you need a high powered immersion blender, and you need soap molds. You need to be comfortable with handling sodium hydroxide (lye). Then the soap needs to cure, or more accurately, it needs to dry out. If you live in the desert, that's relatively easy. If you live anywhere with a Rh over 40%, not so easy. Some soapmakers resort to a sort of reverse humidor, a room or closet with a dehumidifier running all the time. Otherwise, you are likely to develop an orange mold on the soap. I add the same anti-fungal used in pipe tobacco to my soap, and that helps.

But yeah, once you use a good, well-made homemade soap, made with a healthy excess of oils, you won't go back to Ivory.

It’s really not that hard, I used a website called soapcalc or something like that, know to handle NaOH or KOH, nicked my wife’s (good) immersion blender, an old pressure cooker we lost the lid of, molds I made myself with wooden planks, grease proof paper and a couple of woodworkers’ clamps. The ratios and all that was easy given I’m a biochemist by training. A 7-10% superfat soap is amazing. Commercial soaps are bad as the manufacturers remove the glycerol, which is incredibly moisturising, to sell for other chemical processes, they also add harsher detergents than what’s formed by the saponification process which dry the skin.

It’s actually very addictive to make soap, I used to do it in Greece, we were probably all washing with my soaps for years, and gifted loads of bars to people. My best was one with rosemary and mint, gave a warming and cooling feeling at the same time.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I don't use soap at all except when it's the only thing in a washroom, and that's for hands only. For about 30 years now.

If needed, a body wash, otherwise, nothing but warm—bordering on hot— water.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Post 3319 of this thread:

🎄The Official Unofficial PipesMagazine Secret Santa 2023 🎅 :: General Discussion

@Tbaggins careful, I hear nicotine is an addictive chemical

pipesmagazine.com

Idk.. still right over my head.

The briar lee photo-shop stuff is funny, but that doesn't even need context to be funny.

 

[Pipke]

Idk.. still right over my head.

I think if we ever figure it out, they'd have to kill us. So... splunge for me too!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Idk.. still right over my head.

<< Snipped bits out >>

You had to have been there. Why I'd suggest it not be used outside of the Secret Santa thread.

 

[prairiedruid]

Come for the pipe smoking; stay for the soap recipes!

 

[mingc]

Yup, they can't help themselves but wreck a reliable product.

Wasn't Ivory the one that had a pic of a pretty woman on it who got removed, for being in some racy flick or something? Edit: ah no, that was Ivory Snow soap flakes and the model was Marylin Chambers. My front door is green. Might explain a lot...

It's bad when your memories conflate the porn you've watched with soap advertising!

 

[username]

It's bad when your memories conflate the porn you've watched with soap advertising!

You mean It's not good clean fun?

 

[mingc]

You mean It's not good clean fun?

Oh, very good!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

My take away from all this is you have a pretty good life if your biggest bitch is changing the formula on your butt soap. I find Neutrogena body wash to my liking. My butt has registered no complaints.

 

[telescopes]

Easy fix. Use a bidet.

 

[telescopes]

 

[mawnansmiff]

What have they done?

They did the very same thing with Wright's Coal Tar Soap.

Now it's cinnamon flavoured due to some bonehead in H&S.

"The "bad" news is that Coal Tar is now bannned from use in cosmetics in the EU. Consequently the original Wrights Coal Tar Soap is no longer manufactured as it was".

And there was me thinking we had a referendum to rid ourselves of EU directives!

Jay.

 

[fireground_piper]

They did the very same thing with Wright's Coal Tar Soap.

Now it's cinnamon flavoured due to some bonehead in H&S.

"The "bad" news is that Coal Tar is now bannned from use in cosmetics in the EU. Consequently the original Wrights Coal Tar Soap is no longer manufactured as it was".

And there was me thinking we had a referendum to rid ourselves of EU directives!

Jay.

It’s all about that manufacture simplification, like how in the US all states get products with California’s prop65 warning.

 

[woodsroad]

It’s all about that manufacture simplification, like how in the US all states get products with California’s prop65 warning.

Yeah, I find that SO amusing.

Californicators are always trying to impose their weirdness on the entire world. They thought Proposition 65 would change everything, open the eyes of the great unwashed. Turn the tide of barbarism into a flood of unicorns, sunsets and cute babies in a field of pumpkins. Instead, the warning has become so ubiquitous that nobody sees it anymore. Retailers now add the warning to almost everything that they sell, making it utterly and completely meaningless.

I love it.

 

[GardenStateoftheArtBriar]

Ivory is defnitely my jam - the Real stuff - nice light and harsh - burns the eyes and smells clean
Its pretty cheap- I'd be upset if I wont be able to find those small rectangular bars any longer
99.9% pure and it floats

 

[woodsroad]

It's very interesting how this thread relates to pipe tobacco. When the aroma changes, when the flavor changes, we're hypersensitive to it and it triggers deep emotions. I've had the same reactions when my favorite cleaning product's smell changed, or when they started f(cking around with Reeses Cups. I get a similar feeling when Amazon Prime or Facebook changes sh*t for no reason, but not to the same, emotionally driven extent. Flavors and aromas are serious stuff, man.

 

[jaytex1969]

...and it floats

The new junk doesn't float anymore, either, according to other online complainants. I've only showered with it, so I can not confirm this...

 

[GardenStateoftheArtBriar]

speaking of Reeses Cup
I really dig those new Reeses offerings - the Sticks with the wafers and the ones with the pretzels inside
They remind me of an older discontinued favorite of mine - Whatcha'macallit - remember that one?

It's very interesting how this thread relates to pipe tobacco. When the aroma changes, when the flavor changes, we're hypersensitive to it and it triggers deep emotions. I've had the same reactions when my favorite cleaning product's smell changed, or when they started f(cking around with Reeses Cups. I get a similar feeling when Amazon Prime or Facebook changes sh*t for no reason, but not to the same, emotionally driven extent. Flavors and aromas are serious stuff, man.