The first time I added hot, caustic lye to fat, I was 18 years old. My clothes got covered in grease. The floor turned into a slippery mess. And my lab book was peppered with oily stains. It was a disaster.  I was trying to make soap. 

Rushing through my Chem 101 lab, I was more focused on cutting weight for wrestling. I wanted to get to practice, not think about the chemistry of soap making - saponification. 

After making a mess, I still had no real soap.

Soap is the world’s safest, most effective antibiotic, antiviral, and destroyer of all things infectious. As far back as 2500 BC, Babylonian chemists deciphered this and identified the chemical reaction - saponification - that made it happen. 

It took me weeks to master saponification...I had no idea it would be the chemistry reaction that kept my daughter focused in school...

At 13 years old she was already catching on to schools apathy and addiction to mediocrity. That's when I noticed her interest waining.

Then I showed her soap...not the melt and pour crap you find at the farmer's market, or the sickening sweet, perfume-rich bars gracing the shelves (cancer fertilizer).

Utilizing the old methods of Babylonian chemists, we sat down in our kitchen and started writing out soap math.

...then we found the right ingredients.

...then we forged ahead to make olive oil-rich bars.

It took me right back to being 18 years old.

It also took me back to the late nights I stayed up with Lily when she was sick as an infant...

...and when I was a stay-at-home dad after walking away from Big Pharma.

...and when we spent hours at the park waving to people as they drove to jobs they hated, driving cars they couldn't afford, to pay for a house that was too big, to impress people they didn't like.

"Don't ever fall for that trap, Lily" I'd whisper...promising someday to show her how to be an entrepreneur.

Today, Lily is 20. But making our first bar when she was 13 yo might as well have been last week. It all feels so recent...

She kept up with soap making, marketing, advertising, business structuring, and everything else that comes with being a business owner.

When she moved out, she taught her boyfriend...then their biz grew.

Then COVID hit.

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Dare to live young!

The People's Chemist

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