RE: A question about high quality

[Guest guest]

I'd love to hear about making your own lye from your ashes. We tried it

once, and it didn't go very smoothly, so hearing from experience would be

great!

 

Tina

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[Guest guest]

It is going to be quite difficult explaining in English, but let us try:

I get the ashes, put them inside a plastic bucket which I made holes in the

bottom with nail and hammer. Put boiling water on the ashes and percolate the

dark juice of them.

This ash juice (I don't know the proper name for decuada or barrela in

English) is like lye. The rest is all the same .

Give it a try and Enjoy!

Ane*

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Ane's way is similiar to the way our forefathers made lye.

 

One way, (a backwoods way) was to use a hollow log and all the ashes you've

saved all winter long. Upright the log, fill with ash and pour rainwater

through. The water coming out the other end is lye water, usually pretty

intense lye water, but lye just the same. They then went on to make soap with

pig lard (OR bacon grease they saved all year - y uck!!).

 

Judy

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[Guest guest]

Ane's way is similiar to the way our forefathers made lye.

 

[Dave:] I’ve been working now and then on a history of soap, which is why I

was interested in how she does it. I’ve never met anyone who does this on a

regular basis, though it’s a fun experiment. Using the ash-and-rainwater

method produces potassium hydroxide, or potash, which makes softer soaps

than sodium hydroxide. The old method of hardening it up was to add salt.

 

On the frontier, making soap was arduous work. All the fats from the winter

that had been saved up had to be rendered. Ashes had to be turned into lye.

An entire industry grew up, with traveling artisans collecting tallow and

selling soap. Places called ashies sprung up, where ashes were turned into

potash which was then baked to create pearlash. These traveling soapmakers

were called chandlers, since they typically made candles as well. Some

place names, such as Ashland NC, still bear the traces of the soap industry.

 

 

In the 1830s a Frenchman developed a method of extracting lye from brine,

creating an efficient method of producing a standardized lye in the form of

sodium hydroxide. This revolutionized the soap industry, making

mass-production possible. Molded bars then became popular, instead of bars

cut from a larger log or chunk. Although fine soaps were available to the

well-off, making soap at home remained a common and vital skill. The

hardships of the Civil War were so severe that many southern women made

their own soap well into the 20th century. The Great Depression also made

it necessary for this skill to remain alive.

 

Soapmaking pretty much died out for a while following WWII, when

industrialization was king. The sales of detergents surpassed those of

soaps for the first time in 1953. The movements of the 1960s and 1970s did

a lot to revive interest in artisan soaps, and today it’s a thriving cottage

industry.

 

Besides our sodium-based bars and potassium-based liquid soaps, heavy-metal

soaps using lead or molybdenum are used as industrial lubricants. Napalm is

an aluminum-based soap.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Welllllllllllllll

 

After you get the lye, you make your soap with the fat you find fit

I use bee's wax mixed with vegetal hidrogenated fat and palm and babaçu oils,

shea butter cocoa butter and honey. Rose and onycha scented. I tell you it is

the best soap you ever tryed . Or better, you never tryed because it is the

first time you hear about it.

I call it Cinderella washer and it is very good for those rusty marks on very

white skin, zits, acne, rosacea, itchy skin and scalp, oily skin, dry skin, etc

and leaves a clean sensation that makes your skin healthy and beautiful and

shiny.

There is no pork fat in it or something similar (we do not eat mamals -

yukkkkk)

Ane*

 

 

 

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