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Making
Homemade Lye Soap
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Homemade Lye Soap Safely
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Making Homemade Lye Soap
You just need a few simple ingredients to make homemade
lye soap, when you make it follow all safety precautions. If you want
to you can make your own lye. While making your lye wear rubber gloves
and goggles. Simply pour water into woodash and drain the water off. This
is called lye water. To make lye soap the lye water is poured into a container
with fat or lard if you’re making the old-fashion homemade lye soap. Other
wise oils can be used instead. The soap made from oil will be slightly
greasy as compared to that made with lard. If you want to use lard, it
is sold in some grocery stores. Or you can get it from a butcher.
The pot you make your homemade lye soap with can be made
out of glass, stoneware or cast iron. Save the utensil you do use just
for soap making. The procedure is to add the lye to the cold water; a
chemical reaction takes place, which heats the water. It is best to slowly
stir, so it doesn’t splash. Next, the lye mixture is poured into the lard
or oils. Again, slowly stir the concoction. If there are lumps in the
mixture it is caused by the fat and needs melting again, while adding
one cup of water and another cup if necessary to make the mixture thick
like syrup once more. If you want to make your own molds you can use glass
pans, which you line with cloth. When the soap has cured for seven days
cut it into bars.
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