and 1 resulting in the composition separated and watery in nature taking into consideration the possibility of utilizing different starches the overall range is approximately from about 1 to about 12 starch with from about 4 to 9 being the most preferred range the soap utilized to form a divalent metallic soap in situ is conventional and should be of a c 10 or greater chain length sodium stearate is most preferred because of its characteristics and ready availability a soap sold by lever brothers under the trademark 34 lever spunn diamond 34 is very satisfactory also it is soluble and therefore available for chemical combination with a source of divalent metallic ions the quantity of soap utilized is preferably from about 0 5 to about 5 by weight about 1 by weight appears to be optimum and the differences achieved experimentally between utilizing 1 by weight soap and 0 1 weight by soap are striking the di or trivalent metal source added to the composition must be soluble so that the di or trivalent metal ion is available for reaction with the soluble soap sulphates and chlorides work well preferably the ion itself comes from the group consisting of magnesium calcium copper cu and zinc preferably a magnesium salt is utilized and.