âSo while McNuggets are 'made with 100 percent USDA Grade A chicken,' as McDonalds.com states, there's no way of knowing what percentage of the whole nugget is actually chicken.â. - Christopher Ochner, Ph.D.
1 Add 9oz lye slowly to 23oz water (never water to lye) outside â even in the winter. 2  Never combine in your house! 3  Do not breathe fumes! 4  Cool to 100 degrees F. 5  Add lye water to oils and mix with a hand or stick mixer until it begins to thicken (on 5min. off 5 -10 min.). 6  Add Raw Honey and essential oils and mix.
You can also make your own lye using slaked or unslaked lime. See recipes for these below. The problem with making lye from wood ash, although it is a simple process, the end result can be that your lye water is either too strong, or too weak. Either way, it could spoil your batch of homemade soap. Having said that, none of our ancestors had access to commercial lye and they made soap just fine.