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Lye Soap (opinions needed)

Posted on 11/21/2013 5:31:18 PM PST by RoosterRedux

A friend makes lye soap several times a year and she gave a few bars to me. All natural (she uses Crisco vegetable oil instead of lard)...and it is great as a bathing product.

Have been thinking of producing this stuff as a bidness. Have lots of connections who would sell it if a market is out there.

Your thoughts please...


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To: RoosterRedux

Johnson’s Baby Shampoo doesn’t burn eyes.


21 posted on 11/21/2013 5:44:21 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Go Ditter...thx for the encouragement!


22 posted on 11/21/2013 5:45:34 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux

I just had a brain storm - Chanticleer soap

A rooster appearing in fables about Reynard The Fox

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, a version of Chanticleer and the Fox told in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
By metonymy, any rooster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanticleer


23 posted on 11/21/2013 5:45:56 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: PGR88; RoosterRedux

PGR is right.

Women will be your target purchasers. We won’t go for anything marketed as “lye soap”, no matter how effective it might be. It just brings to mind a harsh chemical, nothing more. Add something else that’s good for the skin, like oatmeal, or shea butter. And it has to smell good.


24 posted on 11/21/2013 5:46:10 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: RoosterRedux; DManA
Don’t call it Lye soap.

yeah that is too caustic it comes down to a demographic thing maybe you have to market to ecofriendly people with money otherwise, while they are used to lyes, you are trying to sell a useless product to the Great Unwashed Masses

25 posted on 11/21/2013 5:46:57 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: RoosterRedux
It's one of my favorite movies, and I just took this as an excuse to reference it.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

26 posted on 11/21/2013 5:51:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: bigheadfred
But Fred...can we get it covered by Obamacare.

You gots to be clean from all does Whitey products.

27 posted on 11/21/2013 5:51:25 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux
I remember as a kid in the 50's being told that Ivory had lye in it. I think it was even advertised that way in early days. My next post confirms that Ivory still has lye in it.

I've bought bar soap all my life. Wouldn't even think of going hunting for soap like yours at 5 times the price.

28 posted on 11/21/2013 5:52:04 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: DManA

http://www.articlesboulevard.com/ivory-soap-ingredients-%e2%80%93-almost-pure.html


29 posted on 11/21/2013 5:52:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL. Any nearby liposuction clinics?


30 posted on 11/21/2013 5:54:46 PM PST by Hugin ( More firepower1)
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To: Sacajaweau

99 and 44/100 th percent pure. Even as a little kid I asked, pure what?


31 posted on 11/21/2013 5:55:09 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: Sacajaweau
If I could sell it for enough to live on...I would give you enough to bathe on (for free).

If we Freepers don't stick together...what do we have?

32 posted on 11/21/2013 5:55:30 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux

Take introductory organic/inorganic chemistry at community college to get insight on your products & processes Maybe you’ll decide to make silver polish or air freshener instead


33 posted on 11/21/2013 5:56:39 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: RoosterRedux

Here’s something I’ve noticed. When a woman sees a shell she has an irresistible impulse to put it on the back of the toilet.

So, make your soap in little balls, wrap them in shiny paper, and arrange them in a big sea shell.

Women will lap it up.


34 posted on 11/21/2013 5:58:55 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: Hugin

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.


35 posted on 11/21/2013 6:00:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: DManA
There are a lot of old Ivory ads on ebay.

Pure back then was vague..."like we use good stuff"...

One of the biggest things..."it floats". Boy that sells. A lot of older people are Ivory loyalists.

36 posted on 11/21/2013 6:00:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RoosterRedux

Call it NAOH soap
(they’ll never know :)


37 posted on 11/21/2013 6:01:13 PM PST by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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To: RoosterRedux

My teenage kids want to make natural soap and sell it


38 posted on 11/21/2013 6:02:42 PM PST by scottteng (Tax government employees til they quit and find something useful to do)
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To: Sacajaweau

I think it floated because they whipped a lot of air into it. But I remember being fascinated by it as a tiny tyke in the tub.


39 posted on 11/21/2013 6:03:07 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: RoosterRedux
I've made my own soap for years. ps to all, you can't make soap of any kind without lye. I tried selling for a while in craft shops and spas. Maybe I broke even. I gave up trying to market my soaps when the government made it so difficult to buy lye.(It seems it is also essential for making meth) Of course when I stopped making volume batches, I got several requests from stores about putting a display. Maybe I just gave up too soon.
40 posted on 11/21/2013 6:04:26 PM PST by Bearshouse
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