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2. Audi Soap Museum - Wikipedia

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   During the 19th century (around 1880 [2]), the Audi family became the owner of the soap workshop and turned it into a family residence. It was abandoned in the 1980s when the Lebanon War broke out, [2] and the ground floor was occupied by refugees. [3] In 1996, the Audi Foundation started to restore the edifice. The Soap Museum opened in ...

3. Melt and pour - Wikipedia

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   The meltable base is usually naturally rich in glycerine, a by-product of saponification that has humectant and emollient properties, whereas commercial soap bars have often had this component removed. As with the rebatching method, it can be considered a misnomer to refer to the melt and pour process as soap making. The process has much in ...

4. Soap - Wikipedia

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   A handmade soap bar Two equivalent images of the chemical structure of sodium stearate, a typical ingredient found in bar soaps Emulsifying action of soap on oil. Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. [1]

5. Fulling - Wikipedia

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   Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...

6. Saponification - Wikipedia

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   Some soap-makers leave the glycerol in the soap. Others precipitate the soap by salting it out with sodium chloride. Skeletal formula of stearin, a triglyceride that is converted by saponification with sodium hydroxide into glycerol and sodium stearate. Fat in a corpse converts into adipocere, often called "grave wax".

7. Benjamin T. Babbitt - Wikipedia

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   The soap was sold from brightly painted street cars with musicians, which helped lead the phrase "get on the bandwagon." [7] Babbitt was the first manufacturer to offer tours of his factories and one of the first to give away free samples. [6] He used the advertising slogans, "Soap for all nations" and "Cleanliness is the scale of civilization ...