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Ask-a-Daves-Gardener:Using Lye in the garden Historically, 'lye' was a caustic leachate of wood ashes producing potassium hydroxide Lye is currently made by a chemical process that yields sodium hydroxide, and even though sodium is an essential element to normal growth and plant health, it is used only in minute amounts and very quickly reaches toxic levels
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
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
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 Making lye from scratch is hard because the strength of the lye solution is hard to judge Plus you need to have clean white ashes from a hot fire to get white soap (not gray soap)
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
How long do you let your lye soap cure? - Homesteading Forum Is the lye truly converted at the time of soponification? If so, the soap 'could' be used immediately Or does it need time to sit before the lye is neutralized? Is the 'cure' time just time in order for the soap to dry out? And, if this is the case, what do you recommend? I've heard everything from a week to a year Enjoy life's simple pleasures
Zep Crystal heat Drain opener - Homesteading Forum I usually get another lye but my Ace Hardware was out and I Needed to make some soap, lol Please let me know if you have used it or if you were able to get a lye at a Lowe's or Home Depot
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
Making Pine Tar Soap - Homesteading Forum Pine Tar is recommended at 3-10% of recipe The NaOh SAP value is 0 0431 I've had Pine Tar in my lye calculator since 2002 and soapcalc com (which was originally created using my data - with permission) has had pine tar in their calculator since it's inception Donna, any reason you want to go with an all-veggie recipe?