[Artemisia] The making of Lye

[Jackman-Brink, Julia]

I can buy lye up herein MT at ACE Hardware right off the shelf, so I don't think it's that big an issue unless it's a horribly LARGE spill (and even then the label has the emergency instructions).  Caustic, OH YES, but if you follow the directions to the letter, safety first, it's OK.  I'd do the same with any commercial cleaner or acid.  I'd be more leery of the ashes version since you don't know what your outcome will be and you have to handle it more.  With a label you can measure and have a predicted outcome.  But that's just me.  Experiences vary.  Will be interesting to test.  

Juliana

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Your Graceliness,

If you don't hear any, or enough, helpful information from the list, I'd say contact Dame Hilde and Master Odfa; I don't know if they *have* done it, but I'd vote them "most likely to have".  One other thought- lye is a very caustic chemical, you might want to check on local/state restrictions, since a spill would be treated as a HazMat issue.  If only you knew someone in Law Enforcement that you could ask. ;-)

Barwn Morgan Blaidd Du,
Chamberlain for 
Their Excellencies Dunkr & Oonaugh, 
Baron & Baroness of Loch Salann



On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:28 PM, "dukealan at q.com" <dukealan at q.com> wrote:
  
Hello All you medieval smart folks.....
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>So, has anyone actually made lye from wood ashes?  I'm interested in making soap, including the raw materials.  I have some rendered animal fat, and have aspen wood ashes, so I'm looking for info.  Preferably real-deal info, rather than just something in some book.
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>Thanks in advance for any info you might have....which could include a book reference if that's all we can come up with.
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>YIS,
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>Alan
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>PS.  Plus, this list has been dead entirely tooooooo long.  We aren't all on FaceBook, and it seems the communication seems to have comepletely shifted over there....
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