Cold Process and Aluminum Pot...

[Kamahido]

Someone in another forum recently asked an interesting question. He used an aluminum pot to make Cold Process soap. The problem now is the vessel is now discolored and he's in a small village in South America where you can't just run to the store to buy a new pot. His question was, is the pot still safe to use for food and if not is there a way to get the pot back to normal?

 

[shunt2011]

The answer to both is no. Aluminum reacts with the lye. I wouldn't even use the soap made in that pot. I wouldn't recommend using it for food either.

 

[jcandleattic]

Agreed with Shari. Aluminum will give off noxious fumes when coming in contact with lye, so yeah, I'd throw out both the pot and the soap made in it unless he shaves off every bit that came into contact with the Aluminum.

Me personally any thing I use for soaping, I never return to use with food products and vice/verse. You just never know how clean you are getting things, and there could always be cross contamination.