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Re: Summer Bee Meadow Calculators & Resizers To our site members, visitors and users of our SBM Soap Calculators and Recipe resizers: My long-time health situation had been slowly deteriorating for years, though forestalled by my participation in an experimental drug program several years...

Re: Supperfatting in liquid soaps The thought behind making liquid soaps just a little bit alkaline and then 'neutralizing' it instead of superfatting it at the start as one does in solid bar soap is this: In bar soaps, the excess superfat oils stay suspended in the solid soap just as if it...

Re: Summer Bee Meadow Calculator Hi I just happened to see this discussion while browsing... Our Summer Bee Meadow Calculator uses the 'Failor' water computations for NaOH and for KOH (they're different). The calculator originally did solid soaps only and was modified some years back...

Lye availability (sodium hydroxide) I work also for The Home Depot, inc. and know that the supplies of Rooto and Roebic drain cleaners that we had were pulled and replaced with products containing sodium hydroxide and a blue or pink dye some time ago. Since then, Roebic Heavy Duty Drain Cleaner...

I don't want to scare anyone off from ordering lye online -- Just please be sure that whoever you get it from is shipping legally, for everyone's sake. Keeping shipping leagal for online lye purchases is in everyone's interest. As to local purchases, the sad fact is that it is indeed hard...

Be careful shipping lye - Undiluted lye is NEVER allowed to ship via ANY USPS Postal method. US D.O.T. says lye can be shipped in specifically restricted quantities and packagings and with specific labelling as "Consumer-ORMD" goods without hazmat fees, etc. through shippers taht allow this...