Make homemade hand cream

What is a non-reactive pan??????

Reactive Pan - is one made from a material that reacts chemically with other foods. Aluminum and copper, metals that conduct heat extremely well, are the 2 most common reactive materials used to make in cookware.

Lightweight aluminum, second only to copper in conducting heat, reacts with acidic foods, imparting a metallic taste, and can discolor light-colored soups and sauces, especially if you stir them with a metal spoon or whisk (it is a very soft metal). For that reason, you should neither cook nor store light-colored foods in aluminum cookware. Anodized aluminum has a hard, corrosion-resistant surface that helps prevent discoloration.

Most copper pots and pans are lined with tin to prevent reaction. However, tin is a very soft metal, so it scratches easily and then exposes foods to the copper underneath.

Non-Reactive Pan: When a recipe calls for a non-reactive cookware, use clay, copper, enamel, glass, plastic, or stainless steel. Stainless steel is the most common non-reactive cookware available. Since it does not conduct or retain heat well, it frequently has aluminum or copper bonded to the bottom or a core of aluminum between layers of stainless steel. Although expensive, this kind of cookware offers the benefits of a durable, non-reactive surface and rapid, uniform heat conductivity.

Glass cookware is non-reactive and although it retains heat well it conducts it poorly. Enamelware is non-reactive as long as the enamel is not scratched or chipped. Cast-iron is considered reactive; however, we have to say that our extremely well-seasoned pans seem to do fine with tomato sauce and other acidic foods as long as they do not stay in contact with one another for extended periods.

Joe bought me some stainless steel pots for Christmas so I can make my soaps in it, that is, if I ever get started making soap.

Now making soap would be fun. We go to Ethridge, Tn to visit Amish communities. They make lye soap, and some sented soaps. I love to bathe with it. It does not lather alot, but it makes your skin so soft. I have never tried goat soap. Is that what you plan to make?

Yes, I love goat milk soap. I have a few bars I had bought, and then when we got our goats the lady selling them gave me a couple of bars she had made. I also have some lye soap I had gotten at a homecrafters fair. I go every year and always buy from the same lady. She has her big cast iron pot over the fire, stirring away. Always tells the kids what she's doing and trying to teach them how to make it. I haven't used store bought soap for awhile now. I can really tell the difference, especially in my son, Tyler's skin. Most kids that are bi-racial or black have an ashy look to their skin and need lotions, but Ty's skin doesn't get that since I started using home made soaps.

I need to buy some and try it. I don't wear makeup, but use plenty of Oil of Olay, and try to keep my skin blemish free.

If you're like me, once you have goat milk soap, going back to the store bought stuff will be a thing of the past.

Hey, Sonshine, I see that you are having a birthday! 53? Gee you're still a baby! I do wish you a very happy birthday. Hope you have bunches of cake and ice cream!!!!

Thank you for the birthday wishes. Tomorrow Joe and Tyler are taking me out to my favorite Japanese Steak house.

That sounds nice. I will be 61 on my birthday! But I enjoy my life and thank God for every year I am able to live and be happy.