10B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
Jon Goerina/KANSAN
(Above) Senior forward Taylor Mcintosh gives hugs to her teammates during a ceremony for the seniors following the game. Mcintosh finished with six points and six boards in his final appearance at Allen Fieldhouse.
(Right) Sophomore guard Sz
Jayhawks 61-50.
BASKETBALL (CONTINUED FROM 10B)
SENIOR SEND-OFF
Seniors Taylor McIntosh and Jamie Boyd were honored before and after Wednesday night's game for their four-year contributions to Kansas basketball.
Jayhawk fans stayed in the stands after the final buzzer for a presentation to each player at half court. Coach Bonnie Henrickson greeted the players with a framed jersey, cheerleaders tossed roses and every player came out to thank McIntosh and Boyd.
Tuesday
April 5, 1983
THE STARTING LINE
Coach Bonnie Henrickson decided to shake up her starting line-up for the last regular season game of the year.
On senior night, senior forward Jamie Boyd made her second start of the season and sixth of her career, while sophomore guard LaChelda Jacobs made her first start of the year and also sixth of her career.
Jacobs got the nod ahead of junior
Making and using homemade soap
By Dianne Smith
dsmith@kansan.com
Marysa Sacerdote stands over a 5-gallon bucket with a new hand-held kitchen mixer in her hands." I think this one has more power than the last one," she says, guiding the mixer through the soap mixture in the bucket.
She stares intently at the soap, daring it to set up before she gets it into the molds. Over her linen pants and T-shirt, she wears rubber gloves and a whimsical plastic apron printed with coffee cups and pastries. Sacerdote is at work, but the environment is certainly not as stressful as any corporate cubicle.
Bob Marley plays from a stereo in the living room, and a relaxing scent fills the room, a mixture of all the essential oils and the finished bars of soap stacked on shelves in the hallway. Glass bottles of essential oils sit in the windowsill amongst bud vases and other knickknacks.
The ingredients
This is the factory for Healing Moon Soaps, the natural soap company that Sacerdote runs out of her home in East Lawrence. She made her first batch of soap 10 years ago this month. She started selling her soaps at holiday craft shows about a year later, but it wasn't until five years ago that her business really took off. Today her soaps are sold at six locations in Lawrence, including The Merc, Hy-Vee and Weaver's Department Store.
"Most of them are happy that there is an alternative, that they smell nice and that they're not full of parabens - chemicals and other additives," Eastling says.
Sacreddee makes soap out of only natural ingredients. Her basic recipe consists of palm oil, coconut oil, olive oil, filtered water and sodium hydroxide, commonly called lye, which is a naturally occurring liquid extracted from soaking wood
Want to do it
Local products are the newest trend in the all-natural industry, says Laurel Eastling, HealthMarket manager at HyVee. 4000 W. Sixth St. Locally made soaps sell very well, Eastling says, because customers like that they're natural and don't irritate sensitive skin.
Check out these sources for basic recipes, tips and tricks.
"The Natural Soap Book" by Susan Miller Cavitch
"Handmade Soap:A Practical Guide to Making Natural Soaps!" TURNER, HUILI
"The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy" by Valerie Ann Worwood
yourself?
www.soapnaturally.com
Ingredients for making soap are available at local grocery stores, including Dillons and Hy-Vee. Essential oils are available at The Merc. 901 Iowa St.
ashes in water. For the scent, she adds essential oils, herbs and spices. Clays, iron oxides and botanicals add the coloring.
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She gets her ingredients locally whenever possible. The honey in her honey-oatmeal soap comes from Blossom Trail Bee Ranch in Baldwin City. The crushed rose petals in her lavender-rose soap come from the tea roses in her own garden. She buys only high-quality ingredients and is careful about what she puts into her body or on her skin.
"Your skin is everything; everything you take in becomes a part of you." Sacrardote says.
For her, using only plant materials is a personal decision. Homemade soap also can be made using animal products such as goat's milk, tallow or lard. Commercial soaps, however, use synthetic chemicals that can be harsh on your skin. Eastling says a lot of customers have sensitivities to these chemicals.
To streamline the process of coloring her soaps, Marysa Sacerdote mixes clay pigments and botanicals with olive oil and stores the mixture in jars. The olive oil helps release the color in the botanicals.
Alysia Padilla, Leavenworth junior says natural soap is less drying. "Commercial soap sucks moisture out of your skin," she says. "You feel like you have to put on a bottle of lotion."
Katelyn McGill, Omaha, Neb., junior, started using natural soap because she was fed up with the products her dermatologist had prescribed for her acne. The Retin-A, a type of acne medicine, had dried out her skin and made it sensitive to sunlight.
She then pours the mixture into the wooden boxes she uses as molds. She covers the tops of the boxes with squares of cardboard then swaddles them with blankets. The boxes are stored on a stainless-steel kitchen rack nested between her washing machine and the far corner of her kitchen.
Making mannequins and the later corner of her kitchen.
"My life is one big game of lenga," she says as she maneuvers another box of soap onto the already full rack.
"I had gone away from anything natural, and it was more harmful than anything," she says. McGill started using Sacerdote's soap about a year ago and now says her skin is smoother and less irritated.
While Sacerdote mans the mixer, a friend gradually pours in the ingredients that scent and color the soap. Depending on the type of soap, that could be anything from crushed rose petals and lavender essential oil to oatmeal and peppermint essential oil. The oatmeal and other plant materials serve as natural exfoliants, leaving skin smooth and refreshed.
The process
Cold-process is the simplest method because the mixture cooks itself, reaching temperatures of 130 degrees on its own. Sacerdote first mixes the filtered water and oil. She then adds the lye to a bucket of palm, coconut and olive oils and breaks out her hand-held electric mixer. She mixes the batter until it starts to thicken like pudding—what soap makers call "trace."
Healing Moon Soaps sells seven varieties of soap, plus lip balm, bath salts and room sprays. Sacreddee makes gift packs to sell on her Web site.
Now she waits.The soap needs about six weeks
Homemade soap can be made two ways: coldprocess and hot-process. Sacerdote uses the coldprocess method, which uses only the heat produced by the chemical reaction of mixing the lye and the oils.
Every few weeks, she reserves a whole day for soap making. It's an efficient operation: She can make 500 bars in one day. She spends the morning measuring the ingredients and setting them out in her kitchen. Sacerdote puts Bob Mariley on the stereo, ties on her apron and gets ready for a busy day at work.
to finish curing before she can sell it. It first spends one week in the molds while it cooks, then she scrapes the ash off and cuts it into bars. The bars are then stored unwrapped for at least another week. Sacerdote says it's important to let the soap cure so that it doesn't get musky in the shower.
for more information: www.healingmoonessentials.com
Photos by. Marla Keown
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