[TheForge] Lye soap

[Riverbend Blacksmiths]

Isn't a lye bath also used to clean a piece after any forge welding  
was done to clean off the borax flux? Also a lye bath to neutralize  
an object cleaned with muriatic acid?
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On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Ron Childers wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Saint Phlip
> 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 -----
>> Wrom: ZCMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMHAALPTCXLY
>> 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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> Heat it up
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