Soap Making Wood Ash Lye
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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Love how simple you kept it! Just what I was looking for... The other how to videos make it so much more complicated than it needs to be!
I have enjoyed many of your videos. Thank You! I am an experienced lye soap maker. Don't touch the lye solution, if you can avoid it. For safety- I always keep a large bottle of vinegar, and a spray bottle of vinegar on hand when working with lye. In case of accidental skin or face contact, douse or spray immediately with vinegar. It will neutralize the lye solution a lot more quickly than water. (I always wear a mask & gloves) My Best to You!
when it comes to skin contact, you should never try to neutralize acids or bases with their respective counterpart. You should always dilute with running fresh water. The heat evolved from neutralization can lead to secondary thermal burns on top of the initial caustic burns
THANK YOU!!!!! Thank you sooo much for a straight forward video! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
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I was greatful that you and Mr Hilder made the lye. The is the part that has confused me for so long!
C Eastman thanks for watching. Hope you can subscribe to!! To answer your question about the pots..NEVER use aluminium. Stainless steel is what they recommend using a wooden or plastic spoon. I interested in a nice heavy duty stainless steel pot this year. I use it for many things including my canning and cheesemaking. So if you have lots of projects, go to Amazon and you can usually get a pretty good deal on the pot. As far as leaching, you will see elaborate recipes that call for a wooden barrel, you build a fire, ect. Like who has a wooden barrel and can do this ? NOT everyone. BUT leaching the lye is what we are doing by adding the water and ash together.The water leaches the ash and makes lye. See:) AND thanks for the soap making link I WILL check it out!!
I have my wood ash on the fire. Hope my lye turns out as good as yours so I can make some lavender soap!. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Anne McKenzie Ohh lavender sounds awesome
Cheers. As others have said already, don't put your hand in lye, it's seriously caustic. I guess he rinsed his hands immediately, but the lady admits there's no safety in their house. I just made wood-ash lye myself without boiling (you can just soak the ash in water instead). I barely covered the ash so as to extract as much strength of lye from it as possible instead of boiling it down for a long time ready to make soap, handled it with latex gloves as I was ringing it through cloth, then a couple of minutes later discovered a slippery soapy feeling in one finger - these were new, but I didn't check for holes - and this was caustic enough to give me a mild burn, even washing it with vinegar and water. Good tip with the potato, as they're cheaper than an egg (and I don't fancy eating an egg that's been floated in this stuff either). I'd love to know what specific gravity this equates to, as I could then just put a hydrometer in it and be a bit more accurate with my oil measurements for the soap.
Yes! Yes. And yes. 😇
The Potassium hydroxide is basically pulling out the olis from your skin and making soap with it. So please wear rubber gloves.
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or immediately rinse your hands. I've had my hands in hydrated lime pulling hair off a pelt its caustic but its stabilized by water. its not going to kill anyone unless you leave it unattended.
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3 First, it's up to whoever reads this to do their own thorough research and learning in how to handle dangerous materials (this is just to reinforce this), second, Blume is 100% correct. Third, lye is significantly more caustic than lime. Fourth, "stabilized by water" is gibberish. Fifth, all chemicals need to be handled appropriately (get trained properly, by qualified people). Fifth, you username indicates SJW syndrome and the likelihood that you have and will ignore all of these things.
@@billrosmus6734 Are you saying you don't think being circumcised as a baby is weird and sad?
@@BusyWithBizzyit's not weird. It's more hygienic and tbh is more visually appealing. When I was a soldier we had 3 guys in my company that had it done in their early 20s due to complications of having uncircumcised penises and not being able to wash for weeks on end. Being already circumcised, I was spared. Thanks mom and dad!
Sorry Vessie no part 2. Too many projects going on after that...thanks for watching though and happy new year
Hello! Great video! Did ya'll ever make part 2? or do anything more with this lye?
Curious how things turned out!
Thanks!
As a Soap Maker it was fun to watch this!
AnoushBotanical Its one of our first ones..who would have known! Glad you liked it!
Dude Kramer sorry your so upset over no posting of a follow up video and my asking another viewer for a recipe. I didn't realize you had such a vested interest in me not doing a part two. I enjoy doing lots of different videos and it was remarkable how so many found the lye one! I was glad people found it helpful. It was indeed a first time experiment for us! AND we certainly were not ready for its popularity ..for sadly we indeed never did get around to making soap. (It happens, you know!:) And concerning your comment inquiring about me asking for a soap recipe..WHY not?? That's what talking to other viewers is all about. Its about community and sharing. I could indeed go look for one but usually I have found OTHER people who leave comments and are engaged in discussing the videos they just watch sometimes have the best information or knowledge of other videos with recipes that are successful!
So dude, relax. Its just about lye...that's it:)
+Starry Hilder I thought this was a great deal of information I always make my homemade soap with lye and lard and coconut oil and I add other oils depending on what I make I make laundry bars with oils and lard above and add other for body soap I didn't know you can make the lie naturally I usually buy food grade lye and make it that way it is cool that I seen that you can do it this way to bad you never got to finish making your soap would have loved to see end result don't give up on it :) I know you can do it!
+Starry Hilder I was hoping for a follow up video as well. I'm interested in lye not only for its use in soap making but lye is one of the things a person needs to make biodiesel
+Starry Hilder My mother told me her dad made it but did not know how he did it. So I now have watch different people making lye. But yet I still don't know how to do the soap. And both video's I watched said making soap. And yet, No Soap. Gator tears.
You have quite a spirit Starry 😅 ty so much for leaving these type of videos up for us to still learn from. I love ur response here btw you've got more class and less sass than I do honey i admire that 😉💚 best to u and ur sis! I hope her foots better soon and u too. 😇
Nice ash!
YEs this is a very cool recipe and yes the lye keeps for a very long time if stored in your jars! We have two wood stoves now so lots of ash to use! Looking for a easy soap recipe if anyone has one!
Did you all ever find a recipe to use?
Simple Recipe... For a soap from a wooden lye... that's what I am looking for...
Can't wait for part 2 thanks
Important! Hardwood only, softwood will not work.
Wood ashes make lye? That is so cool to know
Excellent now I can make some soap 😊
Thank you for this video ❤
i'm making wood ash lye and it's almost crystal clear. i'm burning Ash wood and as the lye water evaporates it is taking on a slight yellow tint and crystals are covering the bottom of the pot. think that is strong enough to use? how much deer tallow to lye water would you recommend? i used 3:1 tallow to lye and ended up adding another part lye water and things separated on me but it was trace so i poured it in a mold
This was really interesting thank you again for another great video - Ruthie
Where's part two girlie? 😭 Soap making class assignment is coming up fast
Hello, my name Sarah. For the past few days I have been searching and searching of how to make Wood Ash soap WITHOUT animal fats and just using coconut oils and such to help harden the bar and hopefully get some suds and lather (if possible). I heard in your video that you are able to use these oils. I searched for the second part of your video but sadly didn't find it. I will like to know if you attempted or succeed to create a Wood Ash soap only using oils that will help harden the bar yet create nice lather. If you could please respond to my comment I will greatly greatly appreciate it. I have looked at many websites trying to find the solution, which gave me a big headache lol. So if anybody can respond I would be grateful. Thank you and have a great evening
Oh, I love using Olive Oil Mixed With Coconut Oil. It makes a hard soap :)
I really want to see how you do soap with the ash wood lay... Thank you
Kara. I wouldn't recommend changing the recipe. Its pretty basic and results are good. By adding more water I would expect yes a weaker solution.That will serve you no purpose because you want the lye to be lye!:) I would just scrap it and start again! Good luck
***** I think it can!!!
This is the most simple version on RUclips not sure why the others do it so complicated
Did I miss something, where is the part two video with the soap making? Thx for referring me the link!
This is the simplest way ive seen it made!
hey, where is there soap making part 2? If you made a video i'd appreciate you sharing it!
Would love a followup video of you making soap with the lye solution. I'm super excited to make soap =)
Is.... Is that a jar of toenails?
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FYI Coconut oil is really cheap at big lots for a huge container, Would've loved to have seen a finished product with your homemade lye. Thanks for sharing,
when making Lye from ash its best to use hard wood rather than soft wood ash as it too resinous and doesn't contain as much potassium as Hard.
Good to know. Thanks for sharing. I thought lye was sodium hydroxide. I do know you can make liquid soap with potassium hydroxide. It would be interesting to find a natural way to titrate. That would be difficult,though.
I make home made soap too Very fun!
I prefer straining the cooked mixture, then cooking the mixture all the way down to almost no liquid and hot filtering the precipitated crystals out. Then you can put the crystals in an evaporating dish to let them dry to room humidity. Do this in the non humid months or use a dehydrator because koh is hygroscopic and is difficult to fully dry. Using dry crystals results in a much more accurate Lye mixture and it's easier to store more of the substance without the water. Store it in an old prescription bottle that's been thoroughly cleaned.
Is there a part 2?
Thank you for sharing your video. Awesome, is there any way you can make a video on step by step on how you make the lye. Thank you
Can I reuse the potatoe used to test the lye on other batches
I think so
Nice tutorial. I can't find the second part, though, where is it?
Sorry there is none
Did you ever make the part 2 video?
I can not locate the homemade soap video. Would you mind sharing the link, please? Thank you
So does adding fat to it neutralize the lye? Is it possible to make a liquid soap with this method?
Thank you for sharing your video, can you make a video on how to use your lye water to make soap? thank you
If you make deer tallow you need to refine it way more then cow tallow. Deer tallow has a very gamey smell so it take more to get it out.
Aside from the helpful advice about using rain water that someone gave you take this one into consideration too.....DO NOT USE ANY METAL SURFACES WHATSOEVER in the making of your lye . this is potentially very dangerous due to how lye reacts with certain metals. the last thing you need is a caustic liquid eating through the bottom of your pan and melting your kicks... "The combination of aluminum and sodium hydroxide results in a large production of hydrogen gas:
2Al(s) + 6NaOH(aq) → 3H2(g) + 2Na3AlO3(aq).
Hydrogen gas is explosive; mixing lye (sodium hydroxide) and aluminum in a closed container is therefore dangerous. In addition to aluminum, lye (sodium hydroxide) and/or caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) may also react with magnesium, zinc (galvanized), tin, chromium, brass, and bronze to produce hydrogen gas and is therefore dangerous. Do not allow lye or caustic potash to contact these metals." also it can produce carbon monoxide when mixed with various sugars... PLEASE be safe and happy soap making!!! :)
She gets potassium hydroxide from this process. You get a softer soap from this type of lye. I think it's a better form of lye - potassium is in all our body's cells, the number 1 element found within the cellular fluid. I would think natural made is better then synthetic sodium hydroxide.
as per the MSDS sheet on Potassium Hydroxide then.. (my mistake on the Sodium bit..) "Incompatibilities with Other Materials: Generates large amounts of heat when in contact with water and may steam and splatter. Reacts with chlorine dioxide, nitrobenzene, nitromethane, nitrogen trichloride, peroxidized tetrahydrofuran, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, bromoform+ crown ethers, acids alcohols, sugars, germanium cyclopentadiene, maleic dicarbide. Corrosive to metals such as aluminum, tin, and zinc to cause formation of flammable hydrogen gas." its still dangerous to be using a metal pan, or put your hands in it.. hydrogen gas is no joke either..
Use a Stainless Steel Pot. :)
1/3 wood ash
Full water
Boil for 5min
Looks like apple sauce put an eggs or potatoes should float if it’s should float about quarter should be out of water
When I leach lye it is extremely dark brown water, almost opaque. I've even tried to filter it but its very start and tends to create a black sludge when I try to boil it down.
what kind of wood have you burned in order to produce the ash / lye? I heard that it must be hard wood. Is that right? I have more access to soft wood so woudl like to know if that works too.
I see you didnt make the soap did you ever end up using the lye for something?
Been nice if you posted the next step in soap making .
hii, starry hilder
do you have more of the video of lye and soap making ? this is not complete. would love to see the whole process that you went thru whether it is successful or not.
thx
thank you, i was wondering about measureing.
Hi Starry, I am interested in if you have made soap with your homemade lye.
Don't Use Aluminium. Use Stainless Steel.
I used 3/4 wood ash, 1/4 melted snow (H20), and the mixture was dry and thick like dirt or clay. So I scooped out all thick particles of coal and added more water...a lot more. So my mixture had to be 1/4 ash, 3/4 water. It is currently being boiled down. Will this effect the lye outcome? Help :)
When you get it on you pour vinegar on it until it's not slippery anymore.
Where's part 2 I need this for class
Could you please post the link?! I want to see the rest of this process. Thank you 🌹
Just measure the density even in Roman times they had scales to measure stuff 😅
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It's incredible
can you give us a link to your soap making please very intrested :)
Do you maybe know the concentration of this lye? For different types of fats and oils you get different saponification values that determine the amount of lye that you should use.
What ratio do you use the fat, lye and water?... More exactly if I understand correctly, the water is already in there... so how much fat do you add to that amount of lyewater?
That's not lye. And there's probably no follow up video because it wouldn't have worked. You need more processes to create lye from wood ash, not just leaching. That's a carbonate.
Starry, with wood ash lye, how long does the soap need to cure before use?
+Jade MoonRaven Im not sure dear..we have not made soap yet!! Too many other homemade projects that are getting done in its place!!
+Jade MoonRaven Depends on the method used to make soap, hot processing you can use it within a day, cold processing takes up to a week to cure.
help me its not doing that for me....
did you put anything extra in it?
its just boiling ash and watter, its not doing anything else... its ben that way for about an hour now.. i dont get it plz help
Can I use the ashes out of an urn?
I can't believe you just stuck your bare hand in lye water.
This lye from buring wood
It's natural
@@mahersaleh693 That it's natural is not what kept his hand from corroding. The concentration of lye in the lye-water solution was too weak to cause injury. If they had boiled this solution down further, it would have been strong enough to eat through cloth, irritate skin, etc. Eventually the boiling would reduce this to lye crystals, perfectly concentrated and dissolvable in water again.
@@mahersaleh693 "it's natural" is a bad argument for anything. poison ivy is natural, uranium is natural, snake venom is natural, The machineel tree is natural. While many of these things in small quanities won't harm you, they still arent things you want to play around with.
Pioneers had to. Not the corrosive type lye.
Awesome
I scrolled 11 years back on my phone and couldn't find part 2. 😢
Please tell me what to do with these Mason jars of lye......🤦🏼
Sorry we actually made this video for one of our nephews and never thought that it was public. Like seriously suddenly everybody was watching it there's no second part
How long does it keep in the jars?
some how I dont get the idea these guys are using city water....
Oh, and what happened to pt 2? I would love to see it!
you have to boil it?
Do yourselves a big, big favor. If you grow food... Get an OIL PRESS. To press the vegetable oil from some of the seeds that you do not plant. It has SO MANY uses it is crazy. ESPECIALLY with soaps, lotions, shampoo, etc.
No need to pay for it, if you can make it.
This is some good stuff to know. Do you know what the shelf life (approx. of course) of the lye made & stored like this is?
John Lee Pettimore THe batch we made was no longer good after a year. I have on my list of things to do..is to make another batch and finally do some coconut oil soap. his is a little weaker lye..so I am curious how it will turn out. My husband used the wood ash method to tan some of his buckskins this last month and it turned out excellent! So the wood ash works for various applications to! Thanks for watching and asking!!
Starry Hilder Thanks for the reply, I'm sub'd. Maybe a tutorial on tanning a buckskin with wood ash is in the future....
There you go..from soap to buckskin!! haha
can i use charcoal/charcoal ashes in place of wood ashes?
charcoal is not charcoal ash. Charcoal, the black carbonized stuff, is pyrolized organic matter. Wood is organic matter. So for the purposes of what you're asking charcoal = pyrolized wood. so essentially charcoal = wood. So to answer your question, yes. Wood and or charcoal ashes are fine.
Pyrolized is a fancy term for heating a substance past the point of combustion, but in a low-oxygen environment, to prevent combustion. (Technically, it needed be deprived of oxygen, it just needs to be deprived of an ignition source.)
Ash is the residual mineral content of combusted organic matter, liberated from that carbon. This is what you want.
As for the quality of the lye, if you're talking about using store bought charcoal briquettes, it could be totally different from bag to bag due to how briquettes are produced. Basically, producers take all manner of mixed up organic matter (hardwoods, softwoods, leaves, nut husks, basically organic wastes from agricultural and milling operations) but that in huge ovens, pyrolize it, crush it, grind it into a powder, add water to make a paste, then compress the paste into briquettes.
So, basically, one run may use primarily softwoods, another run may have been made from peanut shells, another may be hardwoods.
So the amount lye extractable from the ashes of briquettes, would differ. But yes, to answer your question, it's possible.
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Thank you for anything you can do to help.
Is it safe to put your hand in there?
+Chels T not really. Even worse is it can blind you if it splashes in your eye
No joke, plz use gloves and glasses, this stuff will blind or hopefully just burn you!
Plz do a remake with the entire process from ash to lye, fat to soap, you do so good videos!
You never did make that follow video did you ?
Don't forget some Starry sounds effects! BAM soap :-)
"You can use any type of fat, hog fat, bear fat, dear fat, you can use any type of fat"
Can someone help me understand how ash and water is equally dangerous to chemical lye? I've been searching for a safer solution.
The lye they made in this video is very dilute also likely contaminated to make it more dangerous you would need to continue to either boil it off or let it evaporate to concentrate it in theory you would pour this product through a paper filter to remove remaining ash and carbon you would then take the filtered product and boil it or just let it evaporate there should be white crystals of pure lye left. Not sure how pure it will be but should be pretty good for purity.
i cant find the follow up vid
You should use rain water, not house water...rain dont have bleach, or chlorine in it..and other chemicals....that will mess the soap up...that's my opinion
All the old photos of my great grandma and her lye soap making was outside over a big fire. Not inside the house. Deaddly fumes dont ya know.
Lard from slaughtered spring sow (female pig, six months of age at first waning moon after Samhain. . Halloween. At time of slaughter) and lye. Recipe.
You wash your hair , your clothes , your dishes, your floors (if they aren't packed dirt)and everything else that needs scrubbing.
Melanie Willard Fumes of what?
It's a good thing you two didn't boil that down to lye properly, putting your bare hands in that is not smart! I hope your soap turned out well though.
I think they know, as does anyone else that knows how to make thing's from raw materials! \"^.^"/
Grow a pair..
Wait, so I can make soap with my brothers ashes from smoking pot
Yes it was prescribed
can't wait to see part 2!
Wood ash in a sock. I saw a guy do it.
It is better to use hardwood ash..
Your pot looks a little corroded, enameled cast iron won’t corrode
Why can’t you touch wood ashes and water
People below have concerns that you never got around to making the soap as you promised.
Go to the following and at 10:09 he shows you how he made the soap: ruclips.net/video/YHzAjgGYtDI/видео.html
His lye concentration wasn't as strong, so he had to continue to reduce it after it had "saponified" and become soap (the word is related to our soap, Spanish "javon" and French "savon") -- but this gives you the idea. The saponification was evident from the beginning when you saw that the fat and lye-water were not separating but rather had emulsified together into a milky substance. That's soap. The rest is reducing it until the water content is mostly out. The more you let the dry soap sit, the more water comes out, until you can have something as brittle as commercial soap. People used to just leave it on the counter and let it dry.
Thank you
Soap can be bought SO cheaply and the retail price of oil is expensive. Is this just an exercise?
ParrotSailor Cant argue with that! Soap is cheap but many people enjoy soap making and find the control of their own ingredients well worth it!:) Thanks for watching and the comment!
Title is wrong, there explaining how to make lye, not how to make soap.
Great video, thank you for sharing. I was wondering, though, if you know anything more about acceptable pots to use (someone mentioned below that certain metal types can be dangerous). Also, I've seen several videos on "leeching the lye" why did you chose not to do this/ do you know if there are any added benefits with that process? Thanks!! Oh, and here's a pretty simple soap making recipe I found (haven't tried it myself, but it looks simple enough!) ruclips.net/video/kk7rFk7IxT8/видео.html
Devamı var mı ?
No I'm sorry there isn't
Lye reacts with glass.
Obviously you've never done ANYTHING chemistry related and you have the IQ of a potato.
Disappointed. I spent 2 weeks trying to get a bucket of lye water. Kept boiling and boiling until there was barely enough to hold an egg, still didn't float.. tried to make some soap anyway to see what would happen, it's just fat I'm pretty sure. Doesn't come off with water. I guess I need a lottttt of ashes