Hydrosol as lye water?

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I have not, too expensive for me to use them as that and I would think their properties would be lost that way. You could use it straight as a sprayer for refreshing bed linens, or even your skin during your skincare routine. Or you could resell it.
 
I've been offered some free manuka hydrosol. Has anyone used hydrofoil as the water content in their soap? I don't make lotions for anything else where I would use it as an ingredient.
It would be a waste to use it for soap.
 
I won't use it for anything else and it's free, so it will get wasted if I don't put it in soap :D
Does anyone foresee any problems using it to mix the lye in?
If you like the smell, do use it for something else as it won't survive the process. It won't cause problems, but the scent will disappear.

I've used hydrosols to scent bathwater, for example.
 
I used neroli hydrosol (frozen cubes) and it basically acted the same as water in the lye solution (except for the bits of orange precipitating out. I poured the lye solution through a strainer to strain the orange bits out.
 
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