Most equipment used for making soap at home are available in your Kitchen.
Soap making
Soap making equipments
Heat and corrosion resistant bowls: this could be heat resistant plastic bowls or stainless steel bowls. Wooden or aluminum bowls should be avoided.
Electric scales and pipettes: Soap making is a precision process. The ingredients have to be mixed in the exact quantity. The makes the high precision electric scales and pipettes essential tools to have.
Corrosion resistant pots and spoons: pots and spoons should be able to resist the corrosiveness of caustic soda or lye. Aluminum and wooden spoons should be avoided.
PH indicators: this helps to measure the power of the lye and also ensure that the PH of the soap making ingredients is within accetable levels.
Moulds: moulds for soap making are available ina wide range sizes. Soap moulds can be made of plastic, silicone or stainless steel material
Cutters: for cutting the soap into standard sizes after it has hardened.
After their defeat to Man City last time out, they couldn’t hold on for a win against Brentford tonight. Brentford will be the happier of the 2 sides.
Fulham vs Brighton Hove Albion 2 -1
Fulham ran away with the win, they have been having a good run so far.
Southampton vs Chelsea. 2 -1
Chelsea suffer their second loss in 5 games this season. They started the game the brighter side and scored the first goal but as the game wore on they were frustrated. Southampton the deserved winners
Leeds United vs Everton. 1-1
Everton still looking for their first win of the season. Good game against Leeds.
AFC Bournemouth vs Wolverhampton Wanderers. 0-0
Wolves should have won this game, they had several chances including a one on one. Wolves remain in the relegation zone after 5 matches.
Arsenal vs Aston Villa. 2-1
Aston villa is a much improved team this season. They almost got a point from this game but Arsenal were having none of it. Arsenal remain top of the table with five wins from five.
Manchester City vs Nottingham Forest. 6-0
Manchester City welcomed Nottingham forest into the premier league with a Six- Nil bashing. The champions are making their statement clear.
WestHam United vs Tottenham Hotspur. 1-1
Tottenham still managed to take a point from this game because WestHam should have won it. Tottenham’s goal was brilliant, but their hosts had the better chances.
Liverpool vs Newcastle. 2-1
Newcastle have been doing well so far this season. They took the game to Liverpool, but they couldn’t hold on for the point.
Leicester City vs Manchester United 0-1
Leicester City have been lacking in confidence this season so far. And Manchester United came and pipped them one -nil. Cudos to United for a very disciplined play, their 3rd straight win in 5 games.
Electric Cars refers to cars that are propelled by electric motors using battery power only. These types of cars don’t have internal combustion engines such as the petrol and diesel powered engines.
Some electric cars still come fitted with internal combustion engines, but only for emergency use.
Electric cars are growing in popularity as these types of cars now enjoy about 9% of the market share in car sales.
Electric cars are Green,but are still more expensive than their internal combustion counterparts, although they are expected to be much cheaper in the long run due to lesser maintenance costs.
Some facts to know about Electric cars.
Car Weight
Electric cars generally weigh more than their internal combustion counterparts, this is due to their large battery sizes. Electric car batteries weigh more than 25% the total car Weight.
Battery
Electric car batteries are large and powerful. These batteries can hold about 60kWh of energy, enough to power a whole house for 2 days, in fact they can be connected to the power grid to provide extra power during peak periods.
Recharging
Recharging time for electric cars to reach full charge can be up to 2 hours using charging stations. although it can take 15 minutes to reach 80% of full charge . If you are charging at home, charging overnight can bring your car from 0 to full charge using it’s standard charging device. You can also charge your electric car with an ordinary wall socket but charging will be very slow.
Mile range
Most modern electric cars can travel over 200 miles ( 321 km) on a single full charge. The Tesla model S long range plus can travel up to 390 miles that is 627km on a single full charge!
Control
The car control and gear structure is similar to that found in petrol/ diesel powered cars although the electric car does not necessarily need to adopt this structure.
Cost
Price of electric cars starts from around $30,000. Much costlier than it’s internal combustion engine counterparts.The battery is part of what makes electric cars expensive. As the batteries become cheaper, so will be the cost of these cars.
Environmental impact
Electric cars do not emit dangerous and volatile gases that harm the environment as internal combustion cars do, these cars also have very quiet operation, meaning no or minimal noise pollution.
Safety
Electric cars are very safe to drive. They have a heavier body structure which is an advantage. During accident situations they are likely to receive less damage and protect the occupants of the car.
However, they can catch fire like their internal combustion counterparts. This can happen in event of an accident or fault or a problem with the battery.
Forecast
The electric car is the future type of car that will dominate and eventually face out internal combustion engine cars.It has been predicted that by 2030, more than 30% of car driven around the world will be electric.
There are many phones out there in different shapes, sizes and capabilities. Prices of phones are usually based on its performance and quality.
When you go to market to purchase a phone, the main question you should ask yourself is:
What do I really need a phone for?
If you just need a phone mainly to make calls and send text messages, then you are better off with a low end phone. They are available in various shapes, sizes and quality and are generally cheap. You can get one of these phones starting from $10.
If you want to be able to do more with your phone like take cool pictures, shoot video clips, create short videos, browse the internet, lite typing work on Ms word/docs, then you are better off with a mid range Android or iphone. You can get one of these phones for as low as $65 and as high as $350 .
If you are the type that wants to do premium stuff with your phone, like play high end games, shoot high resolution and 4k videos, shoot stunning cinematic pictures, video editing, machine learning and so on, then you are better off with a high end Android or iphone. These types of phones can be as low as $400 to as high as $2000.
