• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    351·
    12 days ago

    Not only can I say saponification but I can actually do it. I’m an artisan soap maker.

    Can I show you my dick now?

    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      12 days ago

      I’m an artisan soap maker.

      I don’t believe you. You should absolutely post pics of your work.

      EDIT: You’re welcome, internet, for the 100% free range nerd sniped OC. When someone mentions they do something cool, get them to show you.

      • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
        46·
        11 days ago

        Charcoal soap.

        Marijuana soap (made with post-extraction chaff. Very scrubby.)

        A stack of various types of soap.

        These are all lard soaps. We raised the pigs, rendered the lard, and saponified it to turn it into soap.

        • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          12 days ago

          Wow, that’s really fuckin cool. A scrubby weed soap sounds great. It looks like it would compare favorably against the Lush scrubby soaps which have the bits being too big.

          • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
            6·
            12 days ago

            We grind the chaff quite small. It is very scrubby. It’s great if you have been working outside and your hands are really dirty.

          • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
            3·
            12 days ago

            The texture of lard soap is very luxurious. We mix in a bit of olive oil and castor oil to improve the suds and hardness.

          • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
            8·
            12 days ago

            We put tea tree oil in it. The hippy dippy crowd believe that its antiseptic and cleanses your body of toxins. That is, of course, weapons grade bullshit. It’s black and it smells good

            Also, I use extremely fine laboratory grade carbon powder which makes it slightly abrasive. It really cleans your hands nicely.

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        12 days ago

        When someone mentions they do something cool, get them to show you.

        This, 100%. Not only do you get to learn something or see something cool, you’re likely making the other person’s day.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
      111·
      12 days ago

      I just pronounce it phonetically. It isn’t my fault her language was designed by a few too many folks imbibing said saponification’s results.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        12 days ago

        So you pronounce it ‘suh-PON-uh-fuh-KAY-tee-on’ ? I’m not sure how phonetical pronunciation is distinct in this context.

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          12 days ago

          The person you are replying to has not considered the difference between phonetic and orthographic. Technically nothing written can be pronounced phonetically, or rather, everything pronounced is phonetic because once you are speaking it is no longer written word. One can transcribe phonetics to symbols and retransmit them at a later date but the words on the page are signifiers of sounds not the sounds themselves.

          They just meant they read the word how they thought it should go.