[Ansteorra] need source for real lye soap

[Stephanie Suesan Smith]

Well,the problem is you need fire, ashes, lye, a large kettle, and all day
to make it.  It would cost several hundred dollars to do all that for one
bar, once.

Stephanie

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Smith <attewoode at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree.  My former lady used to make her own lye soap.  It is not that
> difficult.  But there were some mistakes in the first batch, and it ended
> up
> eating through the finish of our dining room table.
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:27 PM, mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Stephanie Suesan Smith wrote:
> > > I am looking for a bar of real old fashion lye soap.  The kind sold as
> > lye
> > > soap in the stores will not work for this purpose.  Please send me an
> > email
> > > if you know where I can get some.  Thanks.
> >
> > Probably the best way to get some lye soap with certainty that it is the
> > real, old-fashioned thing, is to make it yourself: lye plus fat, using a
> > slight surplus of fat to make sure that all the lye reacts. There are
> > recipes out on the web, searchable through Google.
> >
> > Be _very_ careful if you choose to make your own: lye is nasty and
> > unforgiving.
> >
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