[TheForge] Lye soap

[Bruce Freeman]

You can also boil the grease up with several changes of water. 
Basically, you repeatedly wash till the water comes out clear or you run
out of patience.  

Best done in winter so you can freeze the grease on top between boiling
without it costing you electricity.  But if you're clever, you can use a
crab-boil pot with spigot to get rid of some of the water dregs.  

I've also got half a mind to try making biodiesel.  But that's another
project.  Besides, I have nothing that burns diesel...

Bruce
NJ

>>> riverbendblacksmiths at mac.com 11/13/2006 2:37 PM >>>
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
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
>
> Has anyone seen my temper?
> I seem to have misplaced it at Stalag XXXV....
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