[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

[Phillip Jones]

I'm less interested in soapmaking than in hiding the corpses. Is ashe lye
suitable for this?

What period methods were used, aside from burning and burial? Was
dismemberment/disbursal popular? How widespread was cannibalism?






Phillip Jones
Triplette Competition Arms
101 East Main Street
Elkin, NC 28621
336-835-7774
phillip at mindless.com
www.triplette.com



-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-admin at atlantia.sca.org]On Behalf Of Terry L Neill
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:49 AM
To: atlantia at atlantia.org
Subject: [MR] Quick Lime (Lye)


Quick lime (caustic) and limestone (inert) are two different things.

Soap makers want *lye* to combine with fats or oils and "soaponify" into a
salt--otherwise known as soap.

The easiest way to get lye for soapmaking is to buy a can of Red Devil lye
in the supermarket next to the Draino products.  Make sure it's PURE LYE and
doesn't have other drain cleaning additions.

One of these days I'd like to try my hand at making lye water from ashes.
In my copious spare time.

Regards!

  - Anarra, wannabe soap maker

P.S.  Would anyone who knows how to make soap like to come to the Dun
Carriag area (St. Mary's County) on June 23 or 24 to a Longship Company
event called "Camp Fenby" and teach us how?  Camp Fenby is a weekend of
learning early medieval crafts and sciences.

e-mail t_neill at hotmail.com if so.  We would appreciate it to no end!




>hahahaha... I found a distributor.  There are
>limestone quarries sometimes depending on where you
>live but there's a whole web site called limestone.org
>which lists professional  distributors in the country.
><G>
>
>I'm still hoping I can find a local quarry rather than
>forcing my sister to bring some from Kentucky.
>
>Rebecca
>--- Phillip Jones <jonesj at infoave.net> wrote:
> > I understand it is dandy for eliminating bodies,
> > too. Where do you get it?


> > I think I found a source for quicklime!!!
> >
> > Ya kind of have to be a soaper to understand why I
> > would want such a thing and all the standard shops
> > you
> > might think would have it don't. <G>

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