Nutmeg vs Kimono vs Soap

Nutmeg is a plant in the form of trees originating from the Banda Islands, Maluku. Kimono is traditional Japanese clothing. Soap is a mixture of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats with reacted with alkali through a process known as saponification. Who will win?

Nutmeg

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is a plant in the form of trees originating from the Banda Islands, Maluku. As a result of the high value as a spice, fruit and nutmeg have become important trading commodity since Roman times. Nutmeg was mentioned in the works of Pliny the encyclopedia "Old". Since the time of European exploration of nutmeg is widespread in tropical regions such as Mauritius and the Caribbean (Grenada). The term is also used to nutmeg nutmeg traded.

These plants settle two (dioecious) so well known male trees and female trees. The leaves are elliptical slim. The fruit is oval shaped like a lemon, yellow, fleshy and flavorful distinctive because it contains essential oils in the flesh. When ripe, the skin and flesh of the fruit open and the seeds will be seen wrapped in the red mace. One fruit produces a brown colored seeds.

Nutmeg harvested seeds, coated seeds (arillus), and the flesh. Meat nutmeg called myristicae fructus cortex. The first harvest is done 7 to 9 years after the tree is planted and achieve maximum production capability after 25 years. The growth can reach 20m and could reach hundreds of years old.

Before marketed, beans sun drying after being separated from fulinya. Drying takes six to eight weeks. The inside of the seeds will shrink in this process and will be heard when the seeds shaken. The shell of the seed will be broken and the inside of the seeds sold as nutmeg.

Nutmeg essential oil containing 7-14%. Nutmeg powder is used as a flavoring for breads or cakes, puddings, sauces, vegetables, and beverages (such as eggnog). The oil is also used as a mixture of perfume or soap.

Kimono

Kimono (着 物?) is traditional Japanese clothing. The literal meaning of the kimono is worn clothes or something (ki means life, and mono means the goods).

In the current era, kimono shaped like the letter "T", similar long-sleeved and collared coat. Long kimono made up to the ankle. Woman wearing a kimono-shaped frocks, while men wore kimono-shaped settings. The collar section should be right under the collar left. Fabric called obi belt wrapped around the abdomen / waist, and tied at the back. Footwear while wearing kimono is zori or geta.

Kimono is now more often she wore on special occasions. Unmarried women wore a type of kimono called furisode. Characteristic furisode arm width is almost touching the floor. Women who turns 20 years of wearing furisode shiki permission to attend. The man wore a kimono at weddings, tea ceremonies and other formal events. When performing outside the arena of sumo, professional sumo wrestlers are required to wear a kimono. Children dressed in kimonos when attending the celebration Shichi-Go-San. In addition, the kimono worn worker service industry and tourism, traditional restaurants serving woman (Ryotei) and employees of traditional inns (ryokan).

Soap

Soaps usually printed solid form called rods because of the history and general shape. The use of liquid soap has also been widespread, especially in public facilities. If applied to a surface, soapy water effectively bind the particles in suspension easily carried by water. In developing countries, has replaced synthetic detergent soap as a washing or cleaning tools.

Many soap is a mixture of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats with reacted with alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at a temperature of 80-100 ° C through a process known as saponification. Fat will be hydrolyzed by the base, yielding glycerol and crude soap. Traditionally, the alkali used is potassium produced from burning plants, or from wood charcoal. Soap can be made also from plant oils, such as olive oil.

As time, soap as personal care products have different variations and colors. One of them is a transparent soap. This soap has properties more like soap but colorless transparent. The principle of the manufacture of transparent soap is soap in the mass mixing ethanol material is then heated with gentle heating and added another substance that has a specific function. Which determines the transparency of the products one of which is a humectant that is hygroscopic thus affecting product transparency. More transparent forming agent is glycerin, sucrose, and a few other ingredients.