[Ansteorra] need source for real lye soap

[Thomas Smith]

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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