Making Lye Water (Potassium hydroxide KOH) The Easy Way From Hardwood Ashes
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How to make Lye water, that can be used for soap making ,
I will cover soap making from lye water in another video
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That's the hard way. Try this. Drill 3 small holes in 5 gallon bucket. Fill halfway with ash. Fill to top with water. Don't even mix. Sit this on top of another bucket. Come back in two days and collect the lye water or run it through the ash one more time for max strength.
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I do that with pee to extract struvite on the top and make nitrogented soil for mushrooms.
Waiting to see the soap in the next Video 🥰 🌹
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Mild interest in saponification, but this would also work for transesterification to turn liquid fat into biodiesel.
Its in fight club too
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They make soap in a fight club?
Is it just a name to pretend to be manly while acting girly?
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Teonna Rainwater was telling the truth about the Lye and Alkali. 🤣🤣
Am going to watch the series and see 😂
please wear gloves and a respirator if you cook the lye to make it a powder.
I really appreciate your concern. I'm absolutely going to heed your advice and make sure to wear gloves and a respirator when working with lye to turn it into a powder. Plus, I've already taken care of including safety warnings in my videos. Your input is valued!
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Powder koh ?
question: instead of reducing it on the stove top, is it possible to dehydrate the solution? granted it would take longer, but there would be no babysitting it making sure it doesn't burn. your thoughts? thanks
Hello, yes you can, same as the ancient technique to extract salt from sea water (solar evaporation)
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Is some soft woods ok? I start my fires with little pieces of 2x4 and etc to get it going. Paper and cardboard too. It would be pretty tough to JUST have hardwood ashes
Hello Dear, hardwood is the best option for making lye water, soft wood don't contain enough potassium. you will not have a high concentrated solution.
I tried it as you said first and mixed it with olive oil to make soap and it didn’t work. I only got some soap foam on top of the mixture.
@raghebsaad9704 hello can I use coconut fibre instead
So is it calcium carbonate that is screened out the first pour? Also in the subsequent pours after sitting, is that potassium carbonate that is screened out? Leaving you potassium hydroxide?
If so, what causes the potassium carbonate to precipitate out of the water? It seems like it's dissolved in the water in the first step (goes through the screen) but is a solid and doesn't pass through the cloth.
Do you think that is potassium carbonate precipitating out of the water, or do you just think the subsequent pours get rid of smaller particulates that were able to pass through the screen in the first step?
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Hello Dear, am sorry I wasn't active lately, it's a good question , am not a chemist I studied computer science and am studying archaeology, and am passionate about primitive and traditional skills and tools but I have a general knowledge about chemistry, I thought about what you said, I think KOH like any salt with water it will become one solution, I don't think it will separate KOH completely through clothes , but I think I will loose some KOH with this technique you are right, If you have a better technique please tell me, thank you!
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I have not tried it, but potassium carbonate is not soluble in ethanol but potassium hydroxide is.
After boiling down the lye water to the salt, mixing it with ethanol should provide you with the answer.
Soap can be made with either, I believe which you make it with just impacts the texture of the soap. Obviously can be made with forms of sodium as well as potassium.
Can we make soap with this lye.pls put a video on this
careful not to get our hands dirty!! LOL~~~
hahaha I will try my best next time
This acts like caustic soda?
Yes, both potassium hydroxide (KOH) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) are strong alkaline compounds and share many characteristics.
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I think this is not Potassium hydroxide, because Potassium in wood ash of you are Potassium Carbonate(K2CO3), you should for solution Potassium Carbonate reaction with Calcium Hydroxide or Lime water create solution Potassium Hydroxide and precipitate Calcium Carbonate, you can precitate filter, clear liquid, this is Poassium Hydroxide, Thanks!
Hello Dear, am sorry I wasn't active lately, it's a good question , am not a chemist I studied computer science and am studying archaeology, and am passionate about primitive and traditional skills and tools but I have a general knowledge about chemistry, Thanks for your comment, I will look into it , if u have any suggestion please let me know,
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It depends on the heat of the fire whether it is potassium carbonate or hydroxide and the oxygen concentration of combustion. If it is the hydroxide beware of your stainless steel pans as they only receive a B rating in holding up to strong alkali such as concentrated potassium hydroxide. I destroyed a stainless steel pot by leaving the potassium hydroxide and crystals inside it overnight, (leached out the nickel) turning the solution green and precipitated nickel hydroxide when heated back up. I knew I had potassium hydroxide by when adding a little more water to dilute the solution from about room temperature it began to heat up to almost boiling without a heat source.
The ash leeching method typically produces Potassium Carbonate, and while the heat of the fire and availability of oxygen might change the proportion of potassium hydroxide you get, the contact between the solution and the carbon dioxide in the air will cause the hydroxide to change back to Potassium Carbonate. Either way you've produced a powerful Alkali, and what you've made is called lye, but odds are you probably don't have KOH
It carbon potassium need more works
Thank you for your feedback. If you have any specific suggestions or questions about the process, please feel free to share, and I'll do my best to address them.
You make dirty soap so you will use that in skin its very itchy
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