Cut and cure your soap. When your clock indicates that 24 hours is done (don't try and rush it), your soap is ready to be removed; many wooden loaf molds have fold-down sides or removable bottoms ...

Chemistry in Pictures: Soap star ... This photo shows “the monolayer formed by tiny soap bubbles that are saving the world during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,” says Ankita Naik, ...

So if you’re a mosquito magnet, new research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University suggests paying attention to your soap choice (iScience 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106667).

This article was originally published with the title “ Morfit's Applied Chemistry--Soap and Candles ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 5 (October 1847), p. 39 doi:10.1038 ...