Re: [gardeners] soap
T.L.Miller (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:10:59 -0500
On 3/9/99 11:55 AM Martha Brown (mbrown@pldi.net) said:
>The soap recipes today for herbal soaps eliminate the steps of rendering the
>fat and leaching the lye by using purchased oils etc.. but the process of
>making soap is the same.
>
>I do not recommend trying to leach your own lye as it is very caustic and
>can be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. Besides the soap was
>a very harsh soap, not what most people would want to use today.
What about Safer's? I use 1 tblspn of Murphy's Oil Soap to a gallon of
water for bugs sometimes.
Sometimes I use dishwashing detergent -- detergents aren't the same as
soaps.
Tom Miller
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