Lye
Lye is combined with animal fats to make bars of soap, which may corrode and dry out the skin.
'No-lye' formulas don't hurt your hair.
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Mix the lye solution with 2 pints of cold water and stir steadily. After cooling, pour lye solution into a glass pan and set in some large container.
It is created by a chemical reaction between oils, water and lye. Although lye is used to make soap there is no lye left after saponification (the chemical reaction that makes soap) is complete.
Hair relaxing products often contain lye, an extremely caustic chemical. If used improperly, lye can burn your skin and scalp.
It is harvested to make powder, which once, before hygienists ruled, was blended with camel urine, lye or yak to create a paste.
I have always shyed away from making cold-Process vegetable soap do to the lye. In talking to people that do make it and having used their products it is some of the nicest soaps one can use.
Saponification
The process by which soap is created by boiling plant oil (or animal fat) with lye or potassium hydroxide. Hydrolysis of the fats and oils occurs, yielding glycerol and crude soap.
"Relaxers can be hard on your hair and scalp, but this one is lye-free, so it's really gentle." ...
DWCP - Discounted Water Cold Process. A cold process method of soap making utilizing a lower percentage of water in the formula for a stronger lye solution.
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If you don't like sleeping in socks, do this treatment 20 or more minutes before you lye down. The wool socks will help lock in the moisture, and penetrate the deep cracks and tough skin that can form on your feet.
I went to the Healthy Grocer in Camp Hill, PA and got Grandma's Homemade Lye Soap, used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and other rashes. Doesn't stop the itching at night, but my legs seems to be healing a little.
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