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While some people consider melt and pour soap to be “soap making” many of those who make a bar of soap from scratch don’t consider this to be actual soap making. It is true that you can have a lot of fun with melt and pour soaps and that you can make a lot of really cool projects, but it isn’t quite the same as the real deal so to say. Cold process soap is one of the most popular methods. It does, however, take more work then the basic melt and pour project. You will be combining lye (caustic soda also known as sodium hydroxide) with fats or oils. This process causes a chemical reaction between the two ingredients creating soap. While soap can be made in your own home, lye is often dangerous to work with and should be used cautiously.

Things you will need:

In order to make cold process soap you will need a glass measuring cup, preferably four cups. You will need a glass dish so that you can measure out your oils and fats. You will need a few spoons. A scale is also very important because your fats and oils as well as your lye will be measured by weight. You need a pan that isn’t aluminum or a pan and a mixing bowl (I prefer glass). Finally you will need a thermometer.

Ingredients:

Soap is mainly fat and or oil and lye. You can then add colorant, fragrance, and additives for special soaps. It is also possible to affect the soap by choosing your oils and fats. Different oils have different results on the soap. Some cost fast lather with tiny bubbles that disappate quickly. Others have strong lathers that last a long time with big bubbles. This can be helpful in choosing your oils and fats and how much of those ingredients that you need. You can also choose them according to how they help the skin.

Recipe:

Soap recipes can be used. These are ones that other people have put together and named. Some have fancy ingredients like milk, milk powder, honey powder, tea, or cucumbers. These can be great soaps, but it should be noted that unless the recipe was created by someone who knows what they are doing then you should check the values on a lye calculator. Lye calculators are available all over the net. They make it very easy to enter the amounts of oils or fats that you are using. It will then tell you how much water and lye you need to make your soap. This is important because if you have too much lye then your soap will still have lye in it and it could burn the skin. If it doesn’t have enough then it won’t have enough soap and you will have a oil bar. You can also use lye calculators for making your own soap recipes.

The Process:

Making soap isn’t a hard process. You should be very careful with the lye (most people suggest that you wear rubber gloves, a rubber apron, eye protection, and some recommend a mask). You should also make sure it is well venelated and that you aren’t breathing in the vapors. Now that you know the safety aspects you should know the basic process of making soap.

1. Melt and warm your oils and fats together. Depending on what you are using this could take a little while (beeswax is one that takes awhile to melt as well as cocoa butter).
2. Mix your lye into your water. Make sure you gently add the lye to the water. Doing it the other way can cause splashing and burns. You want to stir as you are adding the lye. It will get very warm very quickly.
3. Wait. It takes a short time, but you will want your oils and your lye to cool down. Your recipe may have a temperature at which to mix them. If it does follow this. If it doesn’t then 110 degrees is often standard. The important thing is that both the lye water and the oils should be about the same temp and both should be fairly warm.
4. Mix together. If you have a pan that isn’t aluminum that you have melted your oils in you can slowly add the lye (drizzle it into the oil/fat) directly to the pan. If you don’t have an aluminum free pan you can move your oils to your mixing bowl and then drizzle the lye into the oil/fat.
5. Stir or blend. You can stir your soap now or blend it with a hand mixer or a stick mixer. You will need to do this till trace. Trace is the point where the soap has thickened enough to hold itself up for a time. You can either take the spoon and slice the surface, if your mark stays awhile you have reached trace. Or you can drizzle some of the soap mixture onto the surface of the soap. If it is trace then it will hold the drizzled soap up for a few seconds in a small pile.
6. Once you have reached trace you can add your additives such as fragrance, color, herbs or flowers, and superfatting oil. It is really up to you and recipe.
7. After all your additives are in the soap then you can pour it into your molds. It is sometimes helpful to have sprayed the molds with a little cooking spray. Your soap should spend 24 hours in the molds.
8. You will need to let your soap cure for 4 to 6 weeks before using it. This is to make sure that they lye and the oils have all become soap. After 4 to 6 weeks you can use the soap as you wish.

Advantages:

Cold process soap takes awhile to cure, but it is a smooth bar of soap that can be luxurious and easy to use. You can also design bars of soap to help with certain skin problems or to be used for certain skin types. You can also get very creative and make some truly beautiful soap.

Candles are very easy to make and don’t require a lot of money or equipment. You will need wax, wicks, fragrance, and colorant. As for equipment you will need two old pots (one larger then the other), a double boiler you no longer need, or a candle melting pot. You will also want something to stir with, and molds or jars.

You will want to melt your wax in smallest pan by placing it in the larger pan of water. The same is done with a double boiler or the melting pot. You will then add fragrance and colorant. Stir well. Then place the wick into the mold or jar. Hold in place as you carefully pour the wax into the mold. Let the candle harden for 24 hours and then remove from the mold. If you pour it into a jar then you can leave it there.

You can decorate your jar and keep it or give it as gifts. The candles can also be decorated or left plain and given or kept. It is all up to you!

There comes a time where the small chips of soap bars are difficult to use and often get thrown away (or stuck to some corner in the shower). These bars can be turned into liquid soap saving you money and allowing you to recycle them.

1. Gather up your old used soap bars into a ziploc bag until you have a bunch.
2. It is best when you mix them according to attractively mixed scents and colors. White and pale yellow bars tend to look a little yucky once turned into liquid soap. To avoid this add soap colorant or a colored bar of soap to the mix.
3. Once you have grouped your soap you can place it in a small pan with about two cups of water. Add a tablespoon of an oil of your choice (I often add vegetable oil, it is cheap and always available).
4. Melt your soap. Stir it often with a wooden spoon.
5. Once the soap is melted you will want to let it cool. After it has cooled check the consistency. If it is too thick add another cup of water and reheat. If it is too thin then boil it for twenty minutes or so to reduce the amount of water in the soap.
6. Remember to keep it liquid soap! If you want you can add soap fragrance or colorant for a different look.
7. Let cool thoroughly and place in a storage bottle (a hand soap refill bottle is perfect!). You can then add it to your soap pumps for new liquid soap from your old leftovers.

This is a good way to have a good smelling house as well. The soap will smell good as it heats up. Plus you save money and make something new.

“An essay into the field of Churchill reading material that might be of more interest and use than reviews, this is a column that YOU can contribute to easily.” Thus wrote the late Dalton Newfield, editor, in FINEST HOUR 31, from which these notes are reprinted.

Have you noticed that almost every book collection which ~ beyond Churchill himself has England Under Queen Anne/Blenheim, by Trevelyn -but almost none have the companion Ramillies and the Union With Scotland, equally Churchill-related? Delighted to find Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, V.T. Peacock, Lippincort, 1901, with a chapter and picture of Jennie Jerome. It is very nicely bound…. Tom Thomas reports The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, was reprinted by Cedric Chivers, 1973… Centenary-year publications: Winston Churchill by Elizabeth Longford, a pictorial biography with foreword by Eden, after-word by Winston S. Churchill MP…. Winston Churchill, Henry Pelling, 724 pages including 79 pp of indices and notes, is still generally regarded as the best single-volume biography… Likewise, Churchill/A Photographic Portrait, Martin Gilbert, with 364 pages of photos and cartoons, remains the best overall photo-documentary…..Winston S. Churchill/His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, 8 volumes (Chelsea House/Bowker) was said to be “absolutely complete” but wasn’t - key passages were edited including some of the most famous.

Delightful discovery: War Impressions by the artist Mortimer Menpes, 1901, contains 99 watercolors of Boer War scenes and portraits of British leaders and personalities, two pictures of WSC, plus several pages of text, and one of Sunny Marlborough … The Great Boer War, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1900, has three WSC mentions including a description of the Armoured Train Incident. Doyle was an Army doctor and Menpes’ book has a number of pages on him as a dedicated medico … Another unusual acquisition: True Remembrances, Philip Tilden, 1954. Tilden was Churchill’s architect when Chartwell was rebuilt. No Churchill when it comes to writing (he wanders), but there are Chartwell insights that deserve shelf-space … Tom Thomas reports Battles of the Boer War, W.B. Pemberton, 1964, was republished 1974 as a Pan Books “British Battle Series” paperback. Mention of WSC, of course … Also, TT recommends two books of Fisherisms by Admiral Lord Fisher himself, Memories and Records, Hodder & Stoughton; WSC, of course, in these too…

“Leatherbound” does not exactly describe my Lives of the ‘Lustrious by Stephen & Lee, 1901, as it is covered with limp calfskin, no boards. A spoof of the great, it gives a pungent page to “CHURCHILL, WINSTON, Unknown Quantity”. … How seldom we see Marlborough with unfaded spines! I found it recently in original dust jackets, spines immaculate, but it wasn’t cheap…

[There followed some remarks about the Woods Bibliography's current availability status. Like most of us, Mr. Newfield ran hot and cold on Woods]: It amazes that this work, which is by far the best In its field, has received such criticism. Perhaps the critics will seek to improve it with their own? [Well, the critics are still promising.]

After telling the bookseller I was only interested in Churchill, he was surprised when I pounced on a copy of The War and Colonel Warden. [Reminds me of how another bookseller did a double-take when I pounced on my copy of Long Adventure - Ed.] … Possibly the most beautiful of Churchill books, Woods D(a)5 and D(a)8, published by Rarsohoff~ and printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, were printed in limited editions of 250 each; grab them when you see them. It is a tragedy that Grabhorn used “selfend” papers, the result being that almost every copy has one of two binding flaws front and back. Grabhorn should have known better - but they are still most desirable… Can anyone find a copy of Cawthorne’s Mr. Speaker, Sir?……. Was Ascalon/The Story of Sir Winston Churchill’s War-Time Flights 1943-1945, Gerrard Tickell, H&S, London, 1964, ever produced in hard cover? … And, if you collect mentions of Randolph Churchill and his son, don’t overlook The Great Saharan Mouse-Hunt, Pomeroy and Collins, Hutchinson, London 1962; a comic bit on RSC and some views of the then-student WSC.

A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster’s hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death.A third person goes missing. But the evidence for murder or missing was still a mystery.So nobody has any idea about this happenings.Sheriff Miranda Knight is been asked to take up the case by the Mayor. Now she doesn’t want to involve the FBI anywhere in this case. But unfortunately she’s been forced to involve the FBI and the Noah Bishop is the FBI profiler, who knows Miranda and her sister very well and also their unique abilities that destroyed Miranda and her sister years ago. But Miranda uses her unique ability to find the serial killer, the killer also exactly know how to destroy Miranda i.e.by preying on her sister. After reading the whole book you’ll be totally shocked to find who the killer was and for what purpose.

At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But while he’s peddling to finish up with his day’s work by this last drop he’s been chased through back alleys, and shot at. So now Jace Damon( who plays the role of messenger boy ) wonders why is he been chased and shot for. Unfortunately the last drop he was having didn’t strike him. oops…all he thought was oh thank god i escaped.Jace returns to Lenny Lowell’s( the last drop was to this lawyer’s house ) office only to find the cops there, the lawyer dead, and Jace himself considered the prime suspect in the savage murder. Suddenly he’s on the run from both the cops and a killer, and the key to saving himself and his ten-year-old brother.

Kev Parker plays the role of homicide detective.Lenny Lowell had a connection to something big enough to be killed for. Parker begins a search for answers that will lead him to a killer or the end of his career. Since, Parker very well knows that delivering the truth can be deadly in a town built on fantasy and fame. So read the book and find for what reason this Jace was chased and also why the Lenny Lowell’s was killed.

Orczy’s bestselling novel had as its background the French Revolution. Sir Percy Blakeney is a mysterious hero, who saves the lives the French aristocrats and helps them to escape the guillotine. He falls in love with a beautiful actress, Marguerite St Just. To conceal from Marguerite and others his secret identity as the master of disguise, Sir Percy assumes the role of a clumsy English aristocrat. As a spy Percy can be seen as a forefather of James Bond and other espionage agents. The persecutor of the Scarlet Pimpernel is Citizen Chauvelin, an agent of Robespierre. Orczy’s sympathies were shown clearly: she was suspicious of the “lower orders” and Pimpernel rescued the French nobility - sometimes others - only because he admired the nobility of all countries. Once Percy disguises himself as a Jew, thinking that the French despise Jews and do not ask questions. He also formed a band of helpers, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Lord Hastings, etc..Fantastic classic story i’ve ever read.

The book i am going to discuss here is Tell me your dreams .

She thinks that someone is following her to kill her. She is always haunted by her parents’ memories of fighting. Her father is a heart surgeon with whom she is not comfortable talking. She suspects her father to be a murderer of her boyfriend in the high school, but does not have any proof to prove it.

Then we meet Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. They both work with Ashley at Global Computer Graphics. Toni is of British origin and she loves to sing. Whereas Alette prefers quiet weekends and is a good painter.

Ashley is invited by a guy who works in hardware to his apartment. Next thing we know is Ashley is some strange place naked. But this guy too is murdered and castrated the same way as her high school boyfriend. She does not files a complain thinking that her father had done it too.

When Ashley reaches home she finds a threatening message which she takes seriously and calls police. She asks the cop to stay with her. But she gets the shock of her life when the next morning she finds the policeman murdered and castrated.

The investigation begins of all the murders and found out that Ashley is the one who is responsible for all of them. Ashley is diagnosed with Multiple Personality disorder. Ashley, Toni and Alette are the same person. Story does not rest here. Her father finds a lawyer to take up the case. She is found suffering of Multiple Personality disorder and sent to sanitarium.

We are taken to the sanitarium where Ashley is under observation of doctors. After about a year it is found out that Ashley was sexually abused by her father in her childhood which developed other personalities. The details of the murders are discovered and eventually Ashley is cured.

Hey guys ,nowadays i have started reading a lot of books and its been a great experience.I would suggest you guys also to read as many as books you can.i got mesmerised by some books up to an extent that i forgot to take my lunch.In the forthcoming posts i would write reviews of books which i have read.If you guys know any intersting books then let me know

Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13
Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal…. 13
13…that’s Maria’s number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima
on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother
on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time
on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up
Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37.. add all those numbers….
2+4+2+5 = 13
2+1+3+7 = 13
13+13=26
26 years of pontificate……
Coincidence? or it had to be like this?
in the end……he died in 13th week of the year…and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37…you will have 777
Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days…if you reverse
figures…you will get again 13!!!