Armed with gloves, long pants, long sleeved shirts, close toed shoes, safety glasses, scales, plastic bowls, ingredients, silicon scapers, plastic molds, thermometer, and directions, several women tackled the "science" and art of soap making at the local park and rec kitchen.
The teacher is a local soap maker who sells her soap all over, "the Idaho soap company". A fun teacher, who shares her love of the craft willingly...comfortably...this is the second time I have joined her class, leaning new things each time ...just as she goes to conventions each year to learn more and more from speakers from all over the world..
The thing is, you start with some ingredients that are caustic to the body and end with a product that you use on your skin....the chemistry changes in the reaction of mixed ingredients...
Saponification -"saponification /sa·pon·i·fi·ca·tion/ (sah-pon″ĭ-fĭ-ka´shun) conversion of an oil or fat into a soap by combination with an alkali....." Medical dictionary ...
http://www.soaphistory.net
As each woman attending the class is different, so the products came out just as different, colors, scents, even though the recipe was the same..each a particular variety...
It made me think of the changes, transformations we find in the Word...and there are many ...
Void to creation...
Dust to man by the Creators word...
Mud and spit to sight at the Savior's crafting...
Saul to Paul...
Sickness to health ...
Water to wine...
Sin to goodness...
Pouting to praise...
Death to life...
Heartbreak to joy...
Craziness to soundness...
Etc...
Etc...
Etc...
Transformations, thank YOU that You have the power to change our hearts, our causticness to something useful...with an aroma that is sweet to soul ...
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Philippians 3:20-21
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