BUZZ ISSUE-U:BEE ONLINE #02
In this quarterly magazine from U:Bee Online, read more about the skills that could help you achieve more, start life-long interests, lead to careers or become your new hobby! Buzz - Be the best you can be!
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Some people actually start<br />
hobby.<br />
own soap-making business!.<br />
their<br />
whose roots can<br />
pomeridianum),<br />
crushed in water to form a<br />
be<br />
(Saponaria officinalis)<br />
Soapwort<br />
contain the same main<br />
also<br />
a compound called<br />
ingredient,<br />
which forms the foamy<br />
saponin,<br />
and is also a toxin used to<br />
lather,<br />
fish in streams to make<br />
stupefy<br />
people learned that fats<br />
Later,<br />
react with alkalies in the<br />
would<br />
soaps are made from fats<br />
Today,<br />
oils that react with lye (sodium<br />
and<br />
Solid fats like coconut<br />
hydroxide).<br />
palm oil, tallow (rendered beef<br />
oil,<br />
or lard (rendered pork fat), are<br />
fat),<br />
to form bars of soap that stay<br />
used<br />
START MAKING<br />
YOUR OWN<br />
SOAP-YOU'LL<br />
LOVE THE<br />
RESULTS!<br />
THE FIRST<br />
SOAPS WERE<br />
THE SAP OF<br />
PLANTS<br />
The first soaps were probably the<br />
saps of certain plants, such as the<br />
BY MARK EVE<br />
Soap Plant (Chlorogalum<br />
We're so used to just picking up some<br />
lather, and used as a shampoo.<br />
soap at the local chemist or using a<br />
shower gel or bath product we got as a<br />
Christmas present - we tend to forget<br />
Other plants, such as Soapbark<br />
that years ago people actually made<br />
(Quillaja saponaria), Soapberry<br />
(Sapindus mukorossi), and<br />
their own soap!<br />
Do you know it is probably better for<br />
your skin and is it a really popular<br />
them easy to catch.<br />
ashes left over from a fire to<br />
produce saponified compounds<br />
such as sodium stearate and the<br />
related potassium stearate.<br />
hard and resist dissolving in the<br />
water left in the soap dish.<br />
Issue Two: January 2019 / buzz@ubee.org.uk / www.ubee.org.uk / Page 8