Bleach vs. lye - Homesteading Forum Lye, Sodium Hydroxide or Caustic soda is a cleaning compound a long as you keep it away from aluminum and your skin! It will clean out a grease trap We hauled alot of it for pH control in waste treatment amd used it for cleaning the stainless steel chemical tankers, anything oily and viscous was caustic washed [recyrculated] followed by a hot water rinse, and steamed before drying used to
How does lime work to sanitize? - Homesteading Forum Lye is sodium hydroxide, which is used in making soap, is also alkaline or basic Think about the cautions given for soap-making, and remember that caustic lime is in the same family of chemical compounds
Lye paint? - Homesteading Forum Lye is generally used to remove paint, not as paint that I know of, anyway I'd have to agree with Taterspa and wonder if maybe you heard 'lye' when the fellow said 'lime'? I only know about whitewash, which is a little lime (usually a powder in the states) and a lot of water, basically
Help. . . . . . . | Homesteading Forum Lye is the only thing that I know of that will keep the worms that pigs have in there livers away The local butcher said that our hogs were about the only ones that were usable He also gives us a good price for the extra hogs we have We've used it so long, well it like breaking a tradition
Deer Hide tanning with soap?? | Homesteading Forum The lye is then used to make soap - can also be used in the making of biodiesel fuel - and it's pretty strong stuff Soaking hides in a barrel of water and wood-ash makes the hair or fur a lot easier to remove, but doesn't tan the hides
Feeding pigs soaked corn?? | Homesteading Forum We feed soaked feed comprised of flour screenings (corn and or flour), COB w molasses, and soybean meal to jack up the protein We feed twice a day and soak the feed mix in between each feeding Its worked for us for about 20+ years The flour screenings I can get for 3-5 cents per pound so that helps with the cost of feed The pigs also get our kitchen and garden scraps depending on the type
Do You Add Lye to the List of Ingredients? - Homesteading Forum A brief explanation of how the lye is used in the soaping process is nice for your buyers, and if you sell on Etsy or online, you can easily add a description I have not had a single person question the lye on the ingredients label on my soap, but if they did I could explain how the process works and why most soapers superfat their soaps
cold process soap temperature question - Homesteading Forum In my cold process goat's milk soap recipe it says to let the lye temperature get down to 85-90 degrees and the fats to be a few degrees cooler What would happen if I added the fat to the lye if the temperatures were 110 or more instead of what the recipe recommends? The lye mixture increased
Making soap from deer fat - Homesteading Forum Any soap you buy began with lye, or something equally caustic, including commercial soaps I've burned myself with the lye solution, and also from the soap solution Just be near a sink so you can rinse it off, then lather up and wash the affected area and go back to soap making As long as you wash off the solution, you will be fine