A naive question from a bachelor: Can baking soda fully dissolve, or does it always remain gritty?
--Russ ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Dudley To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: CS>neutralizing aloe?? It varies. I use a swimming pool ph test kit and add the soda until the ph is 7. I pretty well mix them all at once. There are some things in aloe vera that can have an H or an OH tail, and if you add acid or alkaline will switch tails (I may not be describing this quite right, I read a paper on it quite some time ago). So what happens is that as you add the soda, the ph increases quickly until it reaches 7, then you can add quite a bit more before it starts increasing again. Thus you will find that a fairly wide range of soda will give the same result in the end of 7. Marshall Connie wrote: Question from another list, for Marshall: What is the ratio of Bicarb to aloe for making a CS gel? How far in advance of combining this mixture to the CS do you make it? Thanks! Connie
