What is lye used for?

Lye is used for soap making, candle making, homemade biodiesel, frosting glass, making several foods, and for chemistry experiments.

Lye is a caustic substance that can certainly damage your skin if you're exposed to it. It can cause a number of problems, such as burns, blindness, and even death when consumed. But, and this is a big but, soap that is created with lye (which is all real soap) will do absolutely no harm to your skin.

Originally Answered: Is baking soda same as lye? No. baking soda is sodium (hence the "soda" in the name) bicarbonate (NaHCO3), while lye (also known as "caustic soda") is sodium hydroxide (NaOH).

Bar soap is made through a chemical process known as saponification (sapo is Latin for soap): A lye solution is combined with oil or fat to cause a chemical reaction. This reaction breaks down the fats or oils into fatty acid chains and the lye mixture is neutralized in the process.

Yes, Dove is made with lye! These alternative words are not always used to deceive consumers!

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Goat's milk soap is simply a bar soap that has goat's milk in the formula instead of cow's milk. Like other natural soaps, goat's milk soap is made from lye that's mixed with fats and oils. In this case, the fats in the soap come at least in part from goat's milk.

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Preparing homemade dish soap is easy: just mix equal parts warm water, white distilled vinegar and Sal Suds with a dollop of essential oil and some salt for thickening.

For a strong scent, you can add 0.7 ounces of fragrance or essential oil per pound of cold process soap. For melt and pour, you can add 0.3 ounces per pound. This number will vary based on what oil you choose. For instance, Cherry Almond Fragrance Oil is really strong.

Goat milk and honey added to soap not only makes for a mild soap, but also gives a delicate, creamy scent. Adding beer to cold process soap can also result in a soap with a light, nutty scent.

Frankincense has a very aromatic earthy scent. You will definitely get the Boswellia tree's musty pine notes, along with citrus notes and spicy undertones. It is also quite similar to rosemary, which is a scent with which most are more familiar.

Yes, you can use it for soap. But no, the fragrance won't remain in the finished product. It's not strong enough. Essential oils, and the less-natural fragrance oils, are highly concentrated and able to withstand the process.

Starch powders such as cornstarch and arrowroot powder are also used as a fragrance fixative in cold process soap. These powders work the same way as clays by absorbing the scent and helping the scent last longer in soap. To use, mix your fragrance with the powder and then add to traced soap.