[Sca-cooks] A mystery ingredient in a soap recipe

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> I just spoke to a friend (a chemist) who suspects it's aluminic 
> caseinate (IOW, named in that it somehow pertains to cheese).

I find one mention of aluminum caseinate on a page about lactose 
intolerance and additives:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper/guide.htm

Caseinates are milk proteins and show up in soap to promote foaming.  If 
I had not seen the period recipe I would have thought this was a very 
modern formula.  

Selene Colfox, google-maniac
selene at earthlink.net