On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:19:28 +0000, Tim S wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:06:46 +0000, Stuart Noble wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:02:58 +0000, Les Desser wrote:

But I don't understand the rest of it. Soap IS |(or was ) sheep fat and
caustic...

Is/ was olive oil and caustic. Sheep fat is lanolin IIRC

I though lanolin was sheep sebum, ie wool/skin grease?

Tim

I think thats what he said. What I said was that mixing lanolin and caustic
gives a decent soap.