Aluminum pot for preparing additives

[Garden Gives Me Joy]

I realize that aluminum (Al) spoons and pots are unsuitable for saponification because the Al reacts with NaOH in fresh soap batter.

I have a cheap, unused saucepan that I am considering using for advance preparations of some additives (like boiling teas, steeping annatto seeds in oil, etc). Its label says the following.

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Double layered aluminum. Coated with non-sticker. Easy to clean by hand or dishwasher.
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Is it safe for use for my proposed purpose, ie as long as the coating does not get chipped? However, is it simply too risky, ie if the pan gets scratched and leaches aluminum without my knowing? ... Can enough Al seep into the oil or teas and react with lye when those additives are finally combined with lye in hard plastic or crockpots?

[ETA: correction of typo of the word 'layered' in quote.]

 

[TheGecko]

I honestly don't know...I have always used stainless steel even when making lotion bars.

Admittedly my curing trays are aluminum, but I also use two sheets of freezer paper with the waxed sides together and then check the top sheet ever so often for damage.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

It's a tricky one - on one hand I think if it's food safe then no aluminium would leech out. But on the other, we also know things which are considered (or were) food "safe" are anything but, because of things leeching out.