Sentences with phrase «much lye»

Every oil has a different saponification index, which is a measure of how much lye is required to turn that oil into soap.

To do that correctly, you'd need to run the recipe through a lye calculator to see how much lye you would need for whatever new ratio of oils you'd be wanting to use.

Another reason soap can be brittle is if it has too much lye.

Is there any way that you could have used slightly too much lye?

The only problem with this is if you accidentally used too much lye, then it probably wouldn't be fixed by re-batching unless you were to add in more oil during the process.

Use this Soap Calculator to figure out how much Lye and water are needed for whatever type of oils you want to use.

If you want a pure vegetable soap you can substitute palm oil (sourced sustainably) but make sure you recalculate how much lye you will need before you begin.

Not exact matches

The specific details of the fabric production are the subject of much debate, but in general, making rayon includes «cooking» plant materials in lye and treating them with carbon disulfide — chronic exposure to which can cause nervous system damage.

Again, it isn't lye - free and you haven't technically «made» the soap but it is a way to have the experience without having to handle the lye (but it is also much less cost effective).

Many people are afraid to try recipes that use Lye, but I've found that much of this fear is based on misinformation.

A soap calculator can help you to figure this out by allowing you to enter the amounts and types of oils you will be using and telling you how much water and lye to use.

Maybe, if you dissolved up the ash in water and then filtered it through activated charcoal and sand or something it would let all of the phosphorus, magnesium, and lye go through and you could safely drink the water... Though I don't know much about how drinking lye is a good idea.

West's «direct» methods of manipulating film stock comes from a long legacy of experimental filmmaking, starting with Man Ray and Len Lye and owing much to Tony Conrad as well as Stan Brakhage's «cameraless» techniques.

In «Motion Sketch,» the Drawing Center will focus on the inverse and much less known aspect of Lye's production: his hand - drawn images intended to distill the movement of depicted entities on a single page.