Recently @brutledge, turned me towards a recipe for making soap that does not require 'lye' (I intend on posting a recipe to make lye soap later) I just am not 100% wild about rubbing a substance on my skin that can give me a chemical burn, and at the bottom of this article I post the only way, that I know, to clean up without using chemicals (both lye and sodium hydroxide are chemicals that can burn you)
Honey Soap (Honey, water, sodium hydroxide, olive oil, and beeswax)
I like the idea of being able to create things, so I took the above recipe and ran with it. I was able to understand how to locally source: Honey, water, olive oil, and beeswax...but I was uncertain about the sodium hydroxide. But why should that stop me, I mean someone has to make it so why not me? so I figured out how to make sodium hydroxide
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-sodium-hydroxide/
But the problem seemed to be 'where am I going to get a carbon rod at?'
After you gather the carbon rods, afix the two rods on either side of the container. Connect a 9 volt battery to the carbon rods (so one of the carbon rods is (+) and the other rod is (-)...this can be done using alligator clips
(pictured above alligator clips)
fill the container with clean water and non iodized salt, and let the carbon rods interact with the liquid for about 7 hours. A white film type residue will collect on the side of the container..that white film type residue is sodium hydroxide. And like was already said mix the sodium hydroxide with the honey, beeswax, olive oil and water...and you will have soap!
For a much simpler process please see
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@captaintj/the-sensibility-of-homsteading
Nice! Sodium hydroxide is lye though, and is necessary for making a true soap. There is also potassium hydroxide, and that type of lye is for liquid soaps. The only other way (that I am aware of at least) to make soap without using lye is a melt and pour process, but it still has lye, but premeasured so less chance of accidents.
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I have a friend that recieved a caustic burn from some homemade soap, and while I think it is a good idea to learn the process to make 'lye soap' I almost gulp at the thought of me being required to use the process.
In a book that I was going through, I cam accrost a recipe. I have found out that the 'old time ways' do not always compute with a modern setting. So in the old days you might have been able to go to some market and buy a few pounds of tallow but today I dont feel that I aways have that option, so to learn how to make soap a person needs to learn how to render fat. But anyway here is a recipie for soap from the book 'Depression Era Recipes'
7 lbs. tallow
3 lbs. rosin
2 lbs. potash
6 gal. water
mix all ingredients and boil for 3-5 hours. Let stand overnight. Cut into bars, and let dry in sun for 2-3 days to harden.
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