A Lesson before Dying, one of Ernest J. Gaines later works, was written in 1993. Some of his earlier works include A Gathering of Old Men and In My Father's House. The novel covers a time period when blacks were still treated unfairly and looked down upon. Jefferson, a main character, has been wrongly...
Today, soaps are made from fats and oils that react with lye (sodium hydroxide). Solid fats like coconut oil, palm oil, tallow (rendered beef fat), or lard (rendered pork fat), are used to form bars of soap that stay hard and resist dissolving in the water left in the soap dish.
In the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, sugar soap describes a cleanser composed of sodium carbonate, sodium phosphate, and at times sodium silicate as an abrasive, but homemade versions may differ in composition.ugar is not an ingredient in sugar soap, but the dry form of some brands of this soap resembles sugar crystals, resulting in the name. In the U.S., a comparable cleaning product is TSP, also known as trisodium phosphate.