[TheForge] Lowes has lye

[Bruce Freeman]

Try this:  Take a bar of soap that you like.  Grate up an ounce or two
of the stuff using a kitchen grater.  Mix in some corn meal, and knead
it together.  See if that's anything like the stuff you remember.

I suspect that this is the way such soap would be made, because
ingredients like corn meal are generally added after the soap is made. 
They don't tolerate the lye too well...

Bruce
NJ

>>> rsmuck at hughes.net 11/14/2006 1:29 PM >>>
The corn meal was an ingredient, I think ANCO the windshield wiper
people 
used to make something similar!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Lowes has lye


> OUT of corn meal, or with corn meal in it?
> Bruce
> NJ
>
>>>> rsmuck at hughes.net 11/13/2006 1:47 PM >>>
> Bruce, I used to have a customer who was a chemical company, they
made
> up
> hand soap out of Corn meal, I loved it, wish I knew where to get
some!