[Sca-cooks] OT: soap (was: Stinky hands)

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Hi!
"trace" or "trailings" is the stage when you move your spoon through the
liquid soap, and the ripples made by the motion remain visible for a second
or two.  Kind of like when you mix pudding, and the ripples stay in the
mixture.  Fos some soaps it's only a few minutes before this happens, in
others (like castile soap) it takes 2 or 3 days.
Meadh inghean Thaidg ui Domhnall
Nottinghill Coill/Atlantia.
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From: <lilinah at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: soap (was: Stinky hands)


> Kelsey wrote:
> >If you're going to add botanicals to cold process or hot process soap
it's
> >a good idea to soak the botanicals in a little oil (just enough to wet
the
> >botanicals).  Soak the botanicals (or coffee) in while you're bringing
the
> >mixture to trace.  At light trace add the slurry of oil and
> >botanicals.  Soaking will keep the botanicals from absorbing oil from the
> >soap mix.
>
> OK, what's "trace"? I've made soap from lye and vegetable fats, so i
> at least know the process, but maybe not the jargon. My friend and i
> added "stuff" to our soaps, so we called them "salad soaps" - blended
> cucumber, blended apples, black poppy seeds...
>
> Because they were half olive oil, they ended up being fairly gentle
> on the skin. They didn't smell like a flower patch, but, then, we
> didn't want them to. We used plastic juice bottles as molds.
>
> Anyway, so, what's "trace"?
>
> Anahita
> who's still wondering who the Iron Chefs will be in Las Vegas...
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