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Monday, October 18, 2010

Scientific Old-fashioned Soap

My mind has been thinking and thinking and thinking ever since I went to Uganda last year.....how can I help these people without giving them a hand out?  What would be something lasting that could improve their lives?  I have lots of ideas, but I hadn't really thought I'd be able to work with them to make soap....their would be a lot of obstacles to deal with. 

HOWEVER... it occurred to me this week how I can make soap from scratch scientifically.  So...this week I begin the process to make my soap the same old fashioned way our grandmas and great-grandmas always did, but I am going to actually measure my leached wood ash water (the lye solution) with a pH meter.  If I can replicate how I make soap now and replace the lye solution with an old fashioned lye solution of the same pH and same volume/or weight, then they could possibly make soap in the bush without needing expensive ingredients!

So I will document this process in hopes of helping others reproduce this same effort in other parts of the world.

Stay tuned!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Uganda...here we come again

On November 19th we leave for our second trip to Uganda.  This time we are taking our two oldest children and a team of others who have been called to work in Uganda.  Amazingly enough, it looks like I will be investigating how to get some widows started in a soap making business....can you believe it?  I have a lot of research to do, because things in Africa are not the same as here....so I will let you know this progresses.  Very excited!
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