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09-03-2008, 01:11 PM
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Homemade lye soap
been thinking about making a batch again. Its been ALOT of years since I have done any soap making. Anybody else make their own or buy homemade soap?
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
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09-03-2008, 10:28 PM
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Made soap with my father in law once.
That ol guy could do about anything. It cleaned pretty good too but it was a little harsh for the women folks. Maybe he left out an ingredient?? Course his momma was a healing (witchy) woman from up in the Mountains of Virginianna. He larned a buncha stuff from her I guess. We also made chewing terbaccy twist one time. We grew an acre of terbaccy and holy cow...we had nuff chew for the whole county. Lotta work too. An heck...I never did chew!! Tried it and it was som'at better'n Brown's Mule!!
 gag!! He wanted to grow some sorghum so we could make some long sweetnin..but I knew better'n that. I saw it done a time 'er two. Lots a work. We did tap a bunch of sweet gum one time and made syrup. Weren't maple but still pretty good. We burned a lot of wood thickenin it up though. We sugar cured our own hog meat and made sausage and lard, cut up our beef critters and deer. Learned how to live with just a little stuff. Grew our own feed for the critters. Ever thing ate the same cept the hogs and they got the goats milk(one gave gallons of the worst tastin milk and the other was great) and ever thing else that was edible. When we killed a hog it weighed 400 or so. Not like the shoat meat they sell ya in the store today. Done gone fer 'nuff fer tonightBTW for y'all that don't know..long sweetnin is molasses
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09-04-2008, 09:28 AM
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Yea I ain't had good hog mean in forever. You are right all you are buyin in stores is offa shoats. We usta get gooooood cajun sausage made from wild hogs this old cajun a couple a counties over had trapped and redomesticated. Several years back he got down and his kids sold off his whole stock of hogs. He was fit ta bust, he has a new stock started, but he ain't got enough in the pens to start sausage makin again. Been a rough year for him and the hogs. One of the boars he had in the pens tore up two of his sows bad. He wound up puttin a bullet in him because he was tearin up everything in sight.
At one time we used to get sap from sweetgum trees ta chew. We used to buy cane syrup from the mill over offa Hall's Bluff Road in Houston County. We raised pretty much everything in the world, and we usta eat ALOT of creek and river caught fish, squirrel, deer, dove, quail, and that sorta thing. Lye is gonna be a problem less I gather my own. Storebought lye was apparently pulled when they pulled sudafed offa the shelves because these druggy jerks are usin it in makin meth. Didn't have no idea until I asked for it last night and the store manager was called in. I believe if I hadn't been in my work uniform they woulda called the cops on me. Talk about rilled up. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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#4
09-04-2008, 09:32 AM
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Hey GOB
You can make lye outta wood ashes.....just takes a while
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09-04-2008, 10:07 AM
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Yep I have done it a time or three. Works best with hardwood ashes. get a old bucket (preferably half a wood barrell) with a stoppered hole close to the bottom, line the bottom with river rock, put a couple inches of straw on top of it. Fill it full of soft water like rainwater, then stir in the ashes. Ya get lye outa the bottom side when you pull the stopper.
More or less anyway. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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