Why isn’t lye listed as an ingredient in any soap

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It’s all Lyes from the Father of Lyes. So now you have the Lye of the land; you’ve made your bed, now you have to Lye in it.

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Great mysteries of the universe unraveled right before your eyes.

Now if we only understood why it’s called soap instead of sapo….

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it still is sapo-* in romance languages.

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Yes - the English language isn’t that clear :grin:

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Because chemistry is full of silly names.
My favourite in English language is periodic acid. What can a layman imagine under that name. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Also would a common person buy something that have a table of content that says:

  • lye
  • fatty acid

And that’s all - what would (s)he expect inside?
Or a bag of coal:

  • contains highly pressurized dinosaurs :sauropod:
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Coal is highly pressurized trees. Oil is animal based remains under pressure mostly I think

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Do you make soap? You’re a lyer!

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i’m considering becoming a lyer … although, my neighbour tried it and the results were … not good. i think she had the lye to fat ratio wrong as only part of the concoction has reacted. the unreacted part was disgusting.

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i bet that could be very grossening…

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no lie, lye is what you should be using

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My wife and her best pal tried soap making. It made our kitchen look like a messy chemistry lab. I’m surprised we didn’t get raided by the DEA. Their first batch of soap was a gooey mess. With many days of practice they eventually learned how to produce small batches of quality soap. Soap making turned out to be an expensive, labor & time-intensive process. They gave the soap away to friends and relatives and put away all the apparatus. On the plus side I now have a lifetime supply of drain opener.

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i may need some of that

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I never lie when i did i had soap put in my mouth! :sweat_smile: This is why i have always liked the Thrills gum. Tastes like soap!

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Edit: Maybe it’s got lye in it?

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My wife makes lye soap with pine tar mixed into it. It’s the only soap I use. Two batches last me all year. I suppose that makes me a piney lyer.

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Either that or layered with tar! :sweat_smile:

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or a lying piner?

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Is thrills gum only a Canadian thing? It is so strange and kind of addictive kind of self inflicted torture of eating soap and chewing it for hours.

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as long as you are not feathered afterward I suppose it is fine.