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House of Noh!

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Contrary to what I’ve been led to believe by popular movies such as Fight Club, making soap doesn’t require a crazy old abandoned house in a brown-field. Neither does it require that uniquely delightful special brand of homicidal malice aforethought. Making your own soap is really quite easy. I found a recipe on the internet for making soap that just uses a brand of drain cleaner (pure lye) and two 3 lb. tubs of Crisco, both of which are quite readily, and inexpensively, found at your local grocery store! And if you want to make a fancy soap, you can use this recipe and add herbs like chamomile or bergamot or essential oils or ground up oatmeal or whatever after “trace” occurs - (soap making term). The only hitch is that for this soap you’ve got to let it sit around and “cure” for around 2 to 4 weeks before you use it, which is sort of a drag. So if you’re into DIY kind of things and want to make special soaps for people as Christmas presents, you’d better start now. I’m going to make a bunch of batches and crumble up dried poison ivy into the soap instead of chamomile or bergamot and give it as Christmas presents to people I can’t fucking stand!!

Brian 3:47 AM

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