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Article: Soapmaker adds her two cents.(Country conversation & feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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COUNTRYSIDE: A friend who subscribe: passed this piece on to me and I had to comment--I'm a soapmaker starting my fourth year in business. We live on a farm and I grow some of my ingredients, and buy as many as I can from local farmers and family run businesses. I also teach a class at my local museum, so I've answered the lye question many times.
You can't have soap without lye--anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or doesn't know what he or she is talking about. Using lye is no more dangerous than deep frying--you need to take precautions, but if you do so there is little or no chance of anyone being hurt. Obviously you don't make soap when there are ...