Slimy Bastille

[BakingNana]

You guys make my day!

 

[djk17]

rofl I was listening to a history podcast today on the French Revolution and so this is timely

Last summer I toured Marseilles soap factories and went to the perfumeries and scent gardens of Grasse, and next month we will go to Castille in Spain. Savon de Marseilles does have to have a minimum of 72% olive, and as far as I know Castille has 100%. I never thought of the Bastille prison! I always thought of it as bastardised Castille, so I LOVE the idea that it could be from those poor aristocrat-beheading, cake-eating prisoners

cleaning the world, one hostile revolutionary at a time

 

[soapopera]

If I make soap contains 40% Olive and is the dominant oil, does it still count as Bastile?

 

[Lindy]

For it to be considered Bastille it needs to have a minimum of 70% OO....

 

[soapopera]

Thanks Lindy for the clarification :wink:

 

[carebear]

For it to be considered Bastille it needs to have a minimum of 70% OO....

There is a standard for Bastile? AFAIK this is made up term. As in bastardized castile.

 

[IrishLass]

There is a standard for Bastile? AFAIK this is made up term. As in bastardized castile.

That has always been my understanding, too- that it's just an informal, tongue-in-cheek term that some jokester of a soaper came up with for soaps that are labeled as 'Castile', but that actually contain less than 100% OO. Speaking only for myself, I consider any soap with 50% OO to 99.9% OO to be a Bastile.


IrishLass

 

[krissy]

i made a 100% OO soap a few months ago and decided to bathe with it tonight and i kept looking for the "slime factor" to appear but the only thing i noticed is that it feels very silky and slippery. maybe it is because i added a very large amount of silk to my lye water that it feels silky but it didnt feel slimy to me.

 

[soapopera]

I just needed a clarification or insights as a co-worker of mine was over the moon about the soap I gave her, so I was trying to explain to her that it's probably better (more moisturising) compare to some as I use up to 40% of OO in it and I told her it's called Bastile. Previously I have the notion that for a soap to consider a Bastile, the OO percentage should be a predominant oil in that formula.

 

[carebear]

There are differing opinions on what is even a Castile. Some feel it is 100% olive oil, some say 100% olive oil made in the Castile region of Spain, and some say 100% vegetable oil (Dr Brommers - and the definition most consumers are probably familiar with).

My own internal standard is 90% olive oil for a "bastile", and 100% for Castile (not counting milk fat as I often soap with buttermilk or cream). But really, there is no legal standard of identity.