by HungryGuy on August 31st, 2004

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How do you make soap (not lye soap of the olden days, but modern soap, like Ivory)?

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  • by looney on November 11th, 2006

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    The word soap, by definition, refers to saponified fats. In other words, any true soap is essentially the same as the old-fashioned lye soap, just with the ratio of ingredients carefully measured to control pH.

    Many products that we use today as "soap" are not actually soap at all, but a mixture of other detergents (examples include Dove bars and liquid soaps). The synthetic processes used to produce these alternative detergents are too complicated for me to discuss here.

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