Making Lye Soap

Descritions of amking lye soap from ashes to lard to soap

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Entertainment

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• bbqtv
• bbq
• tryon
• nc
• lye
• soap

[KARStarla]

What did she say after she said "when the water runs clear she'd take the bucket away" and *something about* the soil.. I want to hear this... why are all the decent videos the ones you cant hear? lol

[bbqtv]

She said the remainder is a good soil amendment for the garden--It was sot w/ ambient sound--no time to put a body mic on the soapmaker

[woolyhairs]

Isn't she a lovely lady

[LYinKansas]

Thank god for old people sometimes.

[JBLAKIE1]

@bbqtv

thanks for posting, great info, it's surprising how smart older civilations really were, and how far we have gone.

[sexypoetry]

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[murdockpt]

...song at the end?

[shaorin321]

how did they make those boxes

[paulyhart]

about the addendum to the soil thing... don't add too much. since hard wood ash doesn't contain nitrogen, only certain other elements, it is a good element to add, you just don't want to add too much, you might "burn" your land... make sure you get a litmus test first before adding ash.

[Bucinka]

@bombonasecino1: Try it next time with an oil that is a solid at room temperature, such as coconut oil.

[GrannyStewart]

We enjoyed working at Festivals in the south and meeting so many nice people. And we hope that we passed some information on to them that was new to them. It's a good day when we learn something useful. Now due to my husband's health toubles, we are not traveling and working at Festivals anymore. The best source to learn about the simple old-time ways is through the Foxfire book series. I think there are about 12 volumes now, but you can survive by what's in the first six.

[GrannyStewart]

Someone asked why the ash hopper is full of charcoal! That is a good question. At first we just carried white ashes in it, but when I opened the lid of the ash hopper city folks asked me why was I showing them dirt? They didn't recognize pure burnt ashes. So I asked my husband to half burn some wood and we scattered it on top of the real ashes. Then folks seemed to think that they were really looking at "ashes." I'm glad to see that some of you know the difference.

[GrannyStewart]

Hi, I finally found out how to put a comment in here with this video. I'll be glad to answer any questions that you have about the information on this video. It was made of me by a gentleman in Tryon NC at the Barbeque Festival. He did a good job and I thank him for putting it on here. All of our ancestors were very smart to make what they needed. Making lye is just one of the things they did for themselves. My website is lyesoap dot com if you would like to know more. May God bless you.