!CAUTION!
Working with Lye

Lye is sodium hydroxide a caustic soda (brine) in a solution is a white, odorless, non-volatile solution. It will not burn* but it is highly reactive. It can react violently with water and numerous commonly encountered material, such as aluminum, generating enough heat to ignite nearby combustible materials. Reaction with metals releases flammable hydrogen gas. Sodium hydroxide in solution is extremely corrosive. It can cause blindness, permanent scarring and death.

Be Careful! No Aluminum! Ventilate! Wear goggles!

Properly harnessed, lye will turn ordinary Crisco, lard or vegetable oils into a thing of beauty and utility. The lye disappears, married off molecule by molecule with the fat, leaving a mild and moisturizing bar with a high percentage of natural glycerin.

Your homemade soap will be kind, even healing, to troubled skin; creams and lotions will become unnecessary. Once you try homemade soap, you won't go back.

*Lye solution contact with skin can be neutralized quickly
(usually slight itching) with vinegar.