Guest guest Posted July 26, 1999 Report Share Posted July 26, 1999 Mrs. Garland explained that soap is made by combining two ingredients: lye and fat. For lye, she simply uses "Red Devil Drain Cleaner." I believe that old timers used to obtain lye by straining boiling water through wood ashes, but I'm not positive. Lye is the alkaline liquid, which can be obtained by straining water off the mixture of ash and water- this liquid is alkaline. Exactly the proportions have to be experimented with, and this is being done here, as we have experimented with one formula and it didn't work, now we're researching so we don't waste too much ash, oil, and time. Ash would be so much better, if we can figure out a reliable recipe, because it doesn't cost anything, and is a natural by-product of self-sufficient farming communities. And if ash works, then why not cow dung ash? By that time you could just about write a book called " 101 Uses of Cow Dung". Dung is Gold Mine came pretty close! ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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