[TheForge] Lye soap

[Ron Childers]

If you use cooking grease, aka hawg lard, you'll have to filter it if you
want it pretty. We rendered the fat in the wash pot and poured the lye in
and it formed a pale yellow soap. For really dirty hands, grandma mixed
ashes in some of it. (Jeff Valentine is the expert in all matters pertaining
to soap making.) Lye was also used as an old time "super quench". 

Ron Childers 

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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Lowes has lye

If you come up with a reasonably attractive recipe, do post it. I
don't much like all the perfumes in everything you buy for personal
cleanliness either- if I was to smell of some sort of perfume, _I_
will choose it ;-)

On 11/13/06, Bruce Freeman <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com> wrote:
> Soapmaking.  Or will be.  My range oven conked out over the weekend, and
> there went my free time.
>
> I made a crude batch of lye soap about six months ago and have been
> very impressed with it.  It's very effective and long-lasting.  It
> doesn't sop up water and decay into mush, but forms a good lather on the
> hands.  It's not particularly harsh.  And it has no stinkin' perfume!
>
> I've nowhere near run out of the stuff, but it's ugly yellow stuff from
> cooking grease.  I want to make some that looks nicer in the bath by
> starting with white grease.  I may experiment with other oils and fats
> too.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> >>> wjec at verizon.net 11/11/2006 6:34 PM >>>
> What are you using this for Bruce?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:57 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Lowes has lye
>
>
> > Found lye sold retail locally at Lowes home centers.
> > Look for Roebic Crystal Drain Opener in the plumbing
> > dept.  Tall, white plastic jar with mostly yellow
> > label.  Claims to be 100% sodium hydroxide (lye) and
> > appears to be so.
> > Bruce
> > NJ
> >
> >
> >
> >
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