Glycerine soap requires an enormously liberal application of heat (to be read "fuel") in comparison to standard soap manufactuer.
Alcohol is also a key production ingredient, which is eventually evaporated and seldom recovered by anyone but commercial scale manufacturers. All this to get clear soap. As "home-prepared" soaps already have their glycerine content intact, whereas commercial soaps (often chemical cocktails, especially shampoos) do not, there is really no need to add glycerin to home soap recipes. Glycerin can be used as an emolient in skin conditioners. However, if everyone stopped using the de-glycerated commercial soaps, there wouldn't be as great a need for the conditioners either. Commercial soap manufacturers strip the glycerin away, making a product that drys skin, and then put some glycerin into other soaps and conditioners to compensate for their "theft" from the original product, in turn charging premium dollar for remedies to the problem they've created. Welcome to capitalism. Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: BSE not in the USA > A lot more glycerine soap would be sold if it were closer in price to > alternatives. > Many people like it but the cost stops them. > What does it take to make bars of glycerine soap? > > Kirk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:47 AM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: BSE not in the USA > > > > > RE: thermal cracking. I have been looking at the process of producing > > > biodiesel from a medium sized produder point of view. If someone could > > > spend > > > $4,000,000 to make 1500 gal of biodiesel an hour with little additional > > > inputs besides heat, it could be something. Biomass heat or parasitic > load > > > could provide the 735 F temperature > > > >WHY? $4,000,000????????? > >i can do 20 gpm for a $20,000 investment at the render plant i am at. > >using meth and koh, but cost is upset by glycerine sales. why would anyone > >want to spend 4 mil? unless.........its one of those grant hunting > scum...... > >skip > > Hi Skip > > The extra 300 gph isn't worth $3,980,000 then? :-) > > No good outlet for the glycerine? Seems to be a widespread problem > for homebrewers, I didn't realise for larger-scale operations too. > > Did you see the message from Ken Provost recently on this? It's here, > in the archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=11966&list=BIOFUEL > Info-Archive at NNYTech > > Best > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Osaka, Japan > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/2002 > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
