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Homemade Lye Soap or Powder Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cans lye
3 quarts cold rain water
4 Tbsp white sugar
4 Tbsp boraxx
1 c soft water
1/2 c ammonia
10 pounds fat "strained meat fryings or tallow"
Directions:
Directions:
Dissolve lye in rain water. Let it stand till cold. Mix together white sugar, salt and boraxx. Add soft water and ammonia. Add to lye solution. Melt the fat and strained meat or tallow meat fryings. Let the fat cool and pour lye solution into the fat slowly stirring all the time. When the mixture is heavy as jam or honey take rotary egg beater and beat around pan a couple times. Pour into molds or leave in pan eight or ten hours. Cut the soap in blocks and leave in pans another ten or twelve hours. Remove from pan and dry thoroughly before grating on your vegetable grater into powder.

 

 

 

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