Can You Make Soap Without Lye?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I am answering the question: can you make soap without lye?
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Can you make soap without Lye?
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Without lye, the oils in your recipe would stay oils. Nothing would happen to them. A chemical change involving lye must happen in order to create soap.
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What is Lye?
Lye is a very-alkaline product that is used to make soap, but it is also used in the food and cleaning industries. There are several types of lye, the most known and most commonly used being NaOH, sodium hydroxide, and KOH, potassium hydroxide. All are metal hydroxides and are very basic (alkaline), meaning they have a very high pH. That makes them very caustic, meaning they can give you a chemical burn if you touch them with unprotected skin.
FDA Definition:
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According to the FDA a true soap is:
1. Composed mainly of "alkali salts of fatty acids". In other words, combining vegetable oils or animal fats with sodium hydroxide (lye).
2. Those alkali salts of fatty acids must be the only material that results in the product's cleaning action.
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The FDA’s regulations address three conditions:
1. What it’s made of: To be regulated as “soap,” the product must be composed mainly of the “alkali salts of fatty acids,” that is, the material you get when you combine fats or oils with an alkali, such as lye.
2. What ingredients cause its cleaning action: To be regulated as “soap,” those “alkali salts of fatty acids” must be the only material that results in the product’s cleaning action. If the product contains synthetic detergents, it’s a cosmetic, not a soap. However, the word “soap” can be used on the label.
3. How it’s intended to be used: To be regulated as soap, the product must be labeled and marketed for use as soap only. If it is intended for purposes such as moisturizing the skin, making the user smell nice, or deodorizing the user’s body, it’s a cosmetic. Or, if the product is intended to treat or prevent disease, such as kill germs, or treat skin conditions, such as acne or eczema, it’s a drug. Again, the word “soap” can be used on the label.
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What’s the regulatory definition of soap?
Whether a product is a “soap” in the traditional sense, or is really a synthetic detergent, helps determine how the product is regulated. So, let’s take a look at how “soap” is defined in FDA’s regulations;
To meet the definition of soap in FDA’s regulations, a product has to meet three conditions:
1. What it’s made of: To be regulated as “soap,” the product must be composed mainly of the “alkali salts of fatty acids,” that is, the material you get when you combine fats or oils with an alkali, such as lye.
2. What ingredients cause its cleaning action: To be regulated as “soap,” those “alkali salts of fatty acids” must be the only material that results in the product’s cleaning action. If the product contains synthetic detergents, it’s a cosmetic, not a soap. You still can use the word “soap” on the label.
3. How it's intended to be used: To be regulated as soap, it must be labeled and marketed only for use as soap. If it is intended for purposes such as moisturizing the skin, making the user smell nice, or deodorizing the user’s body, it’s a cosmetic. Or, if the product is intended to treat or prevent disease, such as by killing germs, or treating skin conditions, such as acne or eczema, it’s a drug. You still can use the word “soap” on the label.
Saponification (Soap Making Process)
Saponification is at the heart of soap-making. It is the chemical reaction in which the building blocks of fats and oils (triglycerides) react with lye to form soap. Saponification literally means "turning into soap" from the root word, sapo, which is Latin for soap. The products of the saponification reaction are glycerin and soap. Chemically, soap is a fatty acid salt.
The FDA also says McDonald's is safe to eat.
The FDA is also American, we speak English. Some American opinion on what soap is, means nothing to History.
Actually there are several ways to make soap that don’t use lye in the process and instead use soap nuts, potassium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, and also sodium bicarbonate. TH-cam isn’t always right lol.
Make a video doing it
@@dillonqaphsiel7977 he is not right. Using alot of these things are not as health as lye and end up in the finished product in high concentrations. And it makes a totally different substance without saponification.
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Isnt potassium and sodium hydroxide the same as lye?
Yes Potassium hydroxide= Lye...
So basically soap without Lye would be not a nice consistency I'd imagine...anyways you can but organic food grade lye..so it's safe..kinda similar to hydrogen peroxide...you can buy both Food grace and commercial ...one is medicinal...one is for industrial cleaning..
Gave me the information I was looking for!! So glad I clicked on this video!
Been making my own soap for almost a year. You nailed completely nailed it. 👍🏻
Thanks man, I was a little nervous putting video out, but I'm glad I was able put something together that was at least accurate and helpful.
Excellent video and very educational. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I feel like it semantics to say that detergent is not soap. It's true but if you can wash with it and make it into a bar they are pretty much the same.
❤Making Soap with Truth and Lye! AWESOME❤
Once the soap has completely cured to the proper Ph there is no longer any active lye remaining. It performs the chemical reaction (saponification) with the fats but is not an actual ingredient in the final soap. Glycerin is a byproduct of the process, without lye there would be no glycerin . Any melt and pour base was made using lye. There may be other ways to produce a skin cleansing agent but it won’t be “soap” without lye.
I want to be able to eat it, and not be poisoned or die. I don't want to put anything on me that I wouldn't be willing to eat!
Would you eat your clothes?
@@cHAOs9well... cotton IS a plant.. leather is an animal..
@@nikkinik4188lye comes from hardwood ashe.
Look up how to make homemade lye on youtube . Basically charcoal, moss, and distilled water. Very interesting
I believe strongly that allergic to lye. I’ve tried ALL kind of natural soap and they all have lye and even then I get infections rashes ect.. thank you for this video🙏🏾
We as soap makers legally have to include the lye on our labels but there is no lye in our soap. That's just not how it works. I appreciate and believe that you have a reaction to the soaps you have used, but that is not from lye unless they're making it with a negative super fat which no soap maker I know would do in a pink fit. Your skin issues are more likely from a badly formulated recipe than from lye.
@@boop7313i’m allergic to lye.
Same I've tried about every soap there is an I gave up stopped using soap years ago an haven't had skin problems since I just use water I've recently been looking into making my own stuff I made exfoliator an love it I wanna find alternative to soap I want soap without lye I don't give a shxx if they say it's not soap I want something I can make to wash my body with without lye I'd just use the homemade exfoliator but ur not supposed to exfoliate everyday
@@twilacherri but how you can without soap? what you use plz?
I came here to learn how to make soap without lye and you gave us the history of it which I'm not interested in.
Love your relaxed approach.
This was such an interesting video! Thank you for making it!
I know you’re actually Spider-Man
Are you the guy from “Blue’s Clues” kids tv show?
And by any chance you have ever read that soap was invented more than 4500 years ago by the Sumerians. They were made in combination with wood ash, animal fat and water. And still some places in the world are producing this kind of soap without NaOH.
you just need months and months of patience for very shitty soap.
You might do better research, not only from English sources of information.
Very interesting! I learned something new today
Yay! That’s awesome!!
hi thank you for this video. Do you knoe if SLS is in lye? do you know i there is a way to make soap without SLS?
Exellent video, thanks so much!
Do you now Aleppo soap in ancient sirya thats is a famusu old soap makin by not lay
What abt beeswax? I heard u can make soap with it
Where can I buy a soap press for squeezing used soap bars the are on the thin side ?? Thanks
Ilike the video thanks for teaching us great
This was a good video! Thanks!
You need a lot of ashes to produce saponification reaction.
Much appreciated
I do feel as if this video was very misleading for people who are learning but I don’t think it was intentional.
It is possible to make soap without sodium or potassium hydroxide but lye is an umbrella term used to describe multiple things that all do the same job in the soap making process. You need lye of some sort to make soap but it doesn’t have to be the same lye that other soap companies use. There are substitutes.
There are substitutes like what. I want to know all the substitutes.
@fishmongerama as so do I. Lye is too dangerous for entry level
Who cares what the FDA says? If I only did what government agencies said to do life would be really boring.
AND unhealthy! Government isn't for the people anymore, sadly.
Can I use any oil
Where can you buy that's already made for you
Buy what..soap?
In making cheese in Portugal they use thistle and I wonder if that could be used instead of lye......
Idk honestly. From what I understand by definition it wouldn’t be classified as a soap. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t work as well or even better
My understanding was that lye is made from potash (ashes from a fire)..?
When I was in mexico, I bought soap there called Zoot. It sure has lye in it. You can smell it. It's very strong. What happens when you can smell it that strong?
You may end up with really dry skin. I dont think that soap is meant for showering with. It's for hand washing clothes .
If you smell the lye, then u will be burning the skin upon use. So, it may not be the lye that you are smelling, but some other chemical. I've been making soap for 18 years, once the soap hardens, the lye starts to evaporate and therefore, you cannot smell it. The only time I'd say you can smell the lye is when you mix the lye in water, before you add to your fats, and that will burn ur nose also.
If lye is used in exces compared to the oil, some will remain at the end of the chemical reaction. Or the reaction wasnt finished
Can we replce lye with baking soda ?
I don't think so
Thank you for this great class.
Yes, there is a way
Made from potash
Is melt and poor glycerin still soap?
Yes.
guess Im to ADHD for this video as the music felt as if it was overpowering his voice for me.
Music was a little too loud? Ok I can try to lower it next time.
@@NaturalSoapMan awww thank you so much for taking the time to assist. It's truly appreciated. Be well
for click bait only \...am thinking of an alternative lye suggestion but there is no information shared bout it,,, wasted my time watching your video
No, dumb-dumb. Hilarious.
you sound like such a pushover🎉🎉🎉
Chinese do it whitout , wooden ash, i think animal fat few more ing , but no lye, so its doable
This video is a lie lol
You are awful at explaining. And you're hung up on the governments defintion of what soap is?? If it doesnt have lye it cant be soap by defintion? This is a silly video. Just google lye substitutes for soap. This guy is hung up on other peoples definitions and explains like a person who is unfamiliar with the topic. 😒
LIE