http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/05/sodium-laurate-clean-but-still-scummy/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:36:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/05/sodium-laurate-clean-but-still-scummy/#comment-7235 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:35:38 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/05/sodium-laurate-clean-but-still-scummy/#comment-7235 [...] What we call “fat” is, chemically speaking, almost all triglycerides–molecules formed of a glycerine backbone with three fatty acids attached. If you add water and a base to fat, the fat undergoes a process called hydrolysis, where the glycerine separates out and the fatty acids bond with the base, giving fatty acid salts. This is called saponification. (Check out that last link; it’s from Molecule of the Day, which is made by a guy who actually knows this stuff, and gives a great overview of the saponification process.) [...] […] What we call “fat” is, chemically speaking, almost all triglycerides–molecules formed of a glycerine backbone with three fatty acids attached. If you add water and a base to fat, the fat undergoes a process called hydrolysis, where the glycerine separates out and the fatty acids bond with the base, giving fatty acid salts. This is called saponification. (Check out that last link; it’s from Molecule of the Day, which is made by a guy who actually knows this stuff, and gives a great overview of the saponification process.) […]

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/05/sodium-laurate-clean-but-still-scummy/#comment-14 Fri, 05 May 2006 05:11:13 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/05/sodium-laurate-clean-but-still-scummy/#comment-14 Hee! Totally diggin' the hero-based soap recipe. The kids at the Black Table seem to prefer using <a href="http://www.blacktable.com/bacon030515.htm" rel="nofollow">bacon</a>, however. Hee! Totally diggin’ the hero-based soap recipe. The kids at the Black Table seem to prefer using bacon, however.

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