Natron is coming along
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Natron is coming along
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Still needs to dehydrate a little longer before storing it
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)replied to Hrefna (DHC) last edited by
@hrefna running an amateur chemistry lab at home? I had to look up Natron.. I think I may have made it in a hi-school chemistry class while making soap. Is that your goal too?
As a kid I used to do my own fun but reckless chemistry experiments in a small room in our attic. Looking mostly to separate dangerous substances that explode or burn from common household materials. It is luck that my parents' house didn't go up in flames.
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@hrefna are you making a mummy?
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Hrefna (DHC)replied to smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) last edited by
@smallcircles heh, no, though when I felt it I went "this is a base for soap" then it turned out this was literally correct ^^
It's for religious purposes: it's used for ritual cleansing and purification.
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smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)replied to Hrefna (DHC) last edited by
@hrefna oh, that is wonderful. I like that. Working with Earth and Water to uplift the spirit
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@MedeaVanamonde I would need… about 500 times as much
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@MedeaVanamonde Traditional mummification required something like 500 lbs of it, where most of my applications require ten "grains" (about the size of a kernel of corn). So a lot less.
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The way it is usually made in this tradition is a lot simpler. It produces a product that for ritual purposes works well, is safe, and is hard to screw up.
This particular attempt is a mixture where I'm trying to more closely replicate what is found in nature. So it is a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mineral salt, and sodium sulfate with water and I'm doing everything at lower temperature.
We'll see if I like the end product.
