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• 1 Aaron Montoya // Apr 29, 2006 at 7:34 pm

  Peter,
  well there is a long way around it to make soap with out lye, now I can give you
  email addy to a chemist that spoke at our conference, and yes you can make soap
  without lye, but…….your starter has to be made with lye, and what is the
  problem with lye? After 24 hours of sponofication there is no lye anyways, and
  in the meantime are you bathing with water and a rock? Because what you’re using
  now, if it’s not handmade and natural you’re using detergent far more harmful
  with all those chemical additives than using a handmade bar of natural soaps
  that started out with lye and in 24 hours if made properly and cured has no
  trace of lye. Intentions are great, misinformed keeps us stagnant. If my
  statement even sounds intelligent? LOL Marti
  Marti Smith
  Savon de Fermier
  www.savon-de-fermier.com

• 2 Neva Marjory // May 1, 2006 at 2:28 am

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  of lye, which i dont want to use in my soap. is there any
  substitiute I can use. Thanks…
  The recipes really won’t work if you don’t use the lye. If you are
  afraid of using lye, that’s a good thing so that you are careful. It
  has a lot of cautionaries but no more than if someone was trying to
  give you directions of starting a lawnmower - something I condsider
  much more dangerous than wokring with lye! LOL
  IF you live somewhere it is hard to get lye there are sources that
  ship if you can’t find some red devil lye in your area.
  HTH
  Willow

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