Sentences with phrase «with lye»

Be sure to take all proper safety precautions when working with lye including goggles and gloves.

Until I started researching this whole topic, I was unaware that commercially prepared black olives are not generally fermented, but are actually treated with a lye solution to remove the bitterness, then they are packed in a salt solution and canned.

So, my immediate thought was yes, but I had a doubt because many places that sell it call it a salt that is similar to soap!?! If it's reacted with lye, isn't it just soap?!? I did find this discussion in a soap making forum which talks about making potassium cocoate, and they do believe it to be the same thing.

We took the hack version (melt and pour vegetable glycerin) of soap making since I don't want any of you burning your eyebrows off playing around with lye.

Handmade soap with lye produces a superior product to the two methods below.

It can be intimidating to work with lye for the first time and it is definitely necessary to follow safety precautions, but don't let that stop you from making your own soap!

Looks a little scary, but I got used to working with lye in my homemade soaps, so this can't really be that much scarier once you're used to it.

I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

Hi Madeleine, I haven't ever cooked with lye so not sure about that.

No, this isn't truly «making soap» from scratch with lye.

One day after mating, eggs were transferred to a Petri dish, where they were treated with lye diluted to 0.5 % in water for 90 s. Then, they were washed 3 times for 3 min with water, and maintained for 24 h at 28.5 °C.

A soap is by definition a mixture of fats and oils with an alkali or base, like this recipe for crock pot soap that uses a mixture of olive and coconut oils with a lye and water base.

If you're buying bottled olives, look for organic brands that have been «traditionally cured» in order to avoid the ones that have been cured with lye.

Safety: When I work with lye there are a few things I do to ensure I am using it safely.

I know that potassium cocoate is said to be the potassium salt from reacting coconut oil with lye, which in the case of potassium cocoate must be potassium hydroxide.

Anything with a pH above 7 is alkaline (or basic), with lye at the top of the scale, around 13.3 Natural water on our planet ranges in pH from 6.5 to 9.0, depending on surrounding soil and vegetation, seasonal variations and weather, and even time of day responses to sunlight.

Heather, any reason you are not using coconut milk with the lye like for the other recipe, the bar soap??

sink or bowl filled with vinegar and water for cleaning anything that comes in contact with lye.

We haven't had any issues with lye remaining, as far as I know, and since there is also cold process soap I wonder if it's fine and more about being mixed well and curing for a bit.

Before anyone pipes in about how horrible lye soap is, ALL soap is made with lye.

The charity was recently the subject of scandal when, after investigating the missing money that has been devastating the organization's finances, the executive director of Healing Arts was violently attacked with lye.

The bathroom was panelled with a lye finish used to bleach the wood and stop it from yellowing.

We took the hack version (melt and pour vegetable glycerin) of soap making since I don't want any of you burning your eyebrows off playing around with lye.

Some olives, such as most canned California - style black olives, for instance, are not generally fermented, but are simply treated with lye to remove the bitterness, packed in salt and canned.

If you're feeling adventurous, try your hand at making old - fashioned soap with lye.

You should also take necessary safety precautions when working with lye.

I have bowls / spoons designated only for soap making because we are working with lye and I do n`t feeling comfortable using these bowls for food.

Its basically old corn that has been treated with lye.

Children or animals underfoot can cause distractions or spills and working with lye is a task that should be done when they are not around.

I have bowls / spoons designated only for soap making because we are working with lye and I do n`t feeling comfortable using these bowls for food.

The water will start to heat when it reacts with the lye, it will need to cool until it reaches the required temperature (see specific recipe).

When learning how to make soap at home a lot of folks express concern around the cold process, in particular the dangers of working with Lye and yes you do want to take some precautions whenever you handle it.

If you've never made cold process soap before — or any kind of soap in which you're working with lye — I strongly recommend you start with a beginner soap recipe so you get a feel for the process and know you can create a successful soap.

(You'll want to take proper safety precautions when working with lye.

Bases are also dangerous, and if you want to check, you could play with some lye or some pure bleach and see what happens.

There are plenty of off - the - wall green burial ideas, such as composting the bodies, dissolving them with lye, burying them in a pod under a tree, or going with a traditional sky burial, but for the most part, green burials resemble traditional ones in many ways, and aren't nearly as strange as one might think.