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OLD WIVES PAILS

About Lye

Without Lye there is no soap. Plain and
simple. For thousands of years, people have
used lye for soap making and tanning
hides. They burned certain hardwoods at
a very high temperature to make white,
not gray, ashes. Apple trees, oak, and
seaweed kelp make ideal fuels. Then water,
mixed with a bit of baking soda,
penetrates the ashes and removes the lye
they contain. When the ashes are filtered
out, the water holds enough lye to mix
with the olive oil to make soap. When the
soap making process is finished there is no
lye left-just soap. We also use a hot process
to enable the glycerin that is created in
this process to stay in the soap for even
more moisturizers.