From: PAUL EIDE <peide-AT-qwest.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:22:13 -0600
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Skin-So-Soft


Years ago my mother had an Avon lady who came to the house once a  
week.   They had become good friends, liked to visit, and my mother  
always felt that she should buy a few things.  A few things, every  
week.    So she had drawers full of Avon products, including several  
bottles of Skin-So-Soft.   MANY bottles of Skin-So-Soft.
In 1991 I took a camping trip down the Alaska highway with my two  
brothers, and we brought along a couple bottles of the stuff because  
there were supposed to be big hungry insects in the Alaska  
wilderness, and Skin-So-Soft was reputed to be a good insect  
repellent, which it turned out to be.
But our favorite use for it was starting campfires.   Get a little  
flame going, stand back, and squirt a stream of SSS on the  
surrounding logs.   The fire would come alive.   Don't remember if we  
ever confessed to our mother what we had used her Avon products for.


Paul Eide


On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Mathieu René wrote:

> my collegue, also new to working with plastalina (oil-based clay)  
> gave me an even better ttrick than any I have tried yet, for  
> smoothimng Chavant NSP.
>
> Someone in the special effects field told him that for Chavant, the  
> usual /smoothing agents are:
> lighter fluid, turpentine, Goof-Off, water, and believe it or not,  
> Skin-so-Soft.
>
> Yes folks, that stinky body oil sold exclusively by Avon.
> I had my doubts, until he showed me, and then I tried. Yikes. It's  
> almost like an instant mirror shine.
> Directly from the raking stage, using a finger and a dab of skin-so- 
> soft for rubbing, the sculpt is flawlessly smooth in seconds. I  
> would have immediately ordered some, but the smell is very strong  
> for me, it grabs at my throat quickly, and I need to cough. Darn  
> useless perfumes!  So I studied the feeling of this oil, trying to  
> find a similarily textures oil in my memory banks. Johnson's Baby  
> Oil!  So I went and got some, and tried it. It's much better than  
> heavy mineral oil (which is still good, but requires patience), but  
> it's nowhere as fast acting as the skin-so-soft.
>
> Does anybody here have connections in the Animation Film or  
> maquette-making industries?
> Could you get more smoothing tips from the oil-based clay pros?
> I really don't want to smooth a sculpt with lighter fluid using my  
> fingers, and the fumes are not nice either for any of the other  
> options mentionned before in this post.
>
> Different oil-based clays have different reactions to different  
> solvents. Like Roma plastalina can be smoothed with alcohol, while  
> Chavant NSP produces a dust film that needs to be cleaned.
>
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