The Heinous Soap Making Failure

The caustic chemicals that can be combined with fatty acids to make beautiful cleansing agents have proven efficient for these and many other purposes for over 100 years. Soap has been made successfully from less than pure sources of these caustics, but of course, not all recipes result in a safe and useful product. In 1887, a man failed miserably at his soap making attempt in his factory and subsequently died in prison for his crime! Was it due to inaccurate proportions of ingredients, or was it due to injuries resulting from unsafe manufacturing practices? How could something so many of us make and enjoy have such disastrous consequences? The truth is far more freakish and terrible than speculations about errors in the process! Click this link with a mind and spirit fortified against the grim and dark hidden desires of certain specimens of humanity: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-man-who-dissolved-his-wife