“Saponification happens”
This is my starting line during the Soap Workshops: it does happen. You mix the ingredients and do nothing: expect them to react. It will take longer, yes; but it will happen.
So this is what i like about the Cold Process: it is following the natural cause-effect duality that might happen when these ingredients happen to mix in Nature.
Which ingredients?
… Rain, Fat and Ashes.
Because that’s how Soap was discovered.
On a Mountain: a sacrifice!
Burning a goat, asking for rain. And rain comes. It’s mixing the fat that fell on the coal and ashes; and, since it’s pouring, it’s transporting them to the river. On this trip, the ashes and the fat get mixed with Nitrogen, Carbon … and by the time they reach the river, they are white flakes.