/2011/06/11/soap-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/06\/11\/soap-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work\/","trash":"","name":"soap-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work","parent":"","title":"Soap, what is it and how does it work?","date":"2011-06-11 11:41:07","filepath":"posts\/2000126_soap-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Soap is one of humanity's greatest inventions. \u00a0It keeps our bodies clean and it can be made with \"found\" materials. \u00a0Our ancestors all across the globe would make soap from simple ingredients like hardwood ash, water, and animal fat.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Soap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grit.com\/uploadedImages\/GRT\/articles\/issues\/2009-01-01\/saponification.jpg\" alt=\"Saponification\" width=\"216\" height=\"308\" \/>\n\nToday we don't necessarily need to know how to make soap. \u00a0We can simply buy it from the store. \u00a0However, the invention is so great and important, it would be a shame to have the majority of humanity forget how it is made.\n\nBefore learning how to make soap or the ingredients, like lye, to make the soap, it is worth the time to learn how soap works. \u00a0How does soap make us clean?\n\nWell, Jennifer Nemec explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grit.com\/Tools\/How-Lye-Becomes-Soap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How Lye Becomes Soap<\/a>. \u00a0She explains the science behind the process in easy laymen's terms.\n\nThere is also another good article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grit.com<\/a> by Lacy Razor\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grit.com\/Tools\/Easy-Homemade-Soap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How to Make Homemade Soap<\/a>. \u00a0It has a nice history lesson and is also worth reading.\n\nNow, if society crumbles, or you are transported back to 10,000 BC, or the zombie apocolypse arrives, you should at least know how to make soap.\n\n...next up is to learn how to tan animal hides with the animal's own brains... \u00a0 oooh gross! \u00a0But very cool!"}}
