On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:01:42 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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.

I usually read "fat" as internal fat, lanolin I would usually think of as
a grease.

Most fats (internal or external) make reasonable soap when mixed
with caustic though, don't they (if Fight Club is to be believed)? We did
the soap thing at school, though the result wasn't very convincing
(caustic scunge IIRC).

Cheers

Tim