{"id":3037,"date":"2014-10-14T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:49:22","slug":"soap-boxes-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Soap boxes &amp; soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Soapmaking is Nicole&#8217;s project but she doesn&#8217;t post anything about it. As this settles into an acquired skill, it&#8217;s time to build some proper boxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A few two-bys<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0432-e1413292232547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3039\" alt=\"IMG_0432\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0432-e1413292232547-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Watch your fingers, arms; pretty much any protuberance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3040\" alt=\"IMG_0434\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0434-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Assembly required<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0436-e1413295916460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3041\" alt=\"IMG_0436\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0436-e1413295916460-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reminiscent of Breaking Bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3042\" alt=\"IMG_0513\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0513-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Curing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0540-e1413296095303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3043\" alt=\"IMG_0540\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0540-e1413296095303-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"438\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8 weeks curing time, I&#8217;ll post the soaps when they are done. We&#8217;ve been using them for a while now and they are my absolute favorite. They are made with our wax &amp; honey, tallow from friends&#8217; animals and sometimes goat milk. They last forever unlike the shit you buy in stores. Nicole is experimenting with a recipe that does not include coconut oil or olive oil, this way we&#8217;ll be able to source all ingredients locally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fun fact: soap is thought to have originated on sacrificial altars when rain mixed with ashes and fat made a suspicious substance someone decided to take a shower with. Sacrifices &amp; dumb luck created one of the biggest advancement in chemistry. Maybe we could sacrifice our way to Mars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soapmaking is Nicole&#8217;s project but she doesn&#8217;t post anything about it. As this settles into an acquired skill, it&#8217;s time to build some proper boxes. A few two-bys \u00a0Watch your fingers, arms; pretty much any protuberance Assembly required Reminiscent of Breaking Bad Curing 8 weeks curing time, I&#8217;ll post the soaps when they are done. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=3037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soap boxes &amp; soap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}