Making lye from wood ash

This guide includes evertying you need to know about lye. What is is, is it dangerous, how to make it and where to get it.

When you start homesteading, you find that there is a use for everything and stop throwing things away. There are even a lot of uses for ash from your wood stove – including making soap.

This past school year our family took a deep dive into pioneer life. One fictional pioneer account that we read referred to the making of soap with lye made from wood ash and rain water.

By: Gabe Garms On our campus, we constantly have our wood burning stoves going throughout the winter months and we generate quite a lot of ash. This is great because this wood ash can be turned into lye, which is one of the primary ingredients in soap. Lye is also commercially used to clean drains

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make lye for soap the old-fashioned way with ashes, water, and a wooden barrel, we've got you covered. Check out our step-by-step guide.

This guide includes evertying you need to know about lye. What is is, is it dangerous, how to make it and where to get it.

How To Make Lye Soap From Fat and Wood Ashes: Low-Cost Survival Hygiene. Lye soap is actually a really old way of making soap. Easy and cheap to make.

Easy, step-by-step directions for making lye from wood ashes. Homemade lye is indispensable on the homestead for making soap, stripping hides and bleaching linens when store-bought products are not available.

Detailed instructions and troubleshooting tips for how to make old fashioned cooked soap using homemade wood ash lye and tallow.

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