Bases like sodium hydroxide, or lye, are combined with fatty acids in vegetable oil or animal fat to produce sodium salts, which help water lift grease away from your skin.
First, let's consider the Western honeybee's sting, Schmidt says it's like " a flaming match head has landed on your arm and is quenched first with lye and then sulfuric acid."
Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it.
She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible.
Perhaps He may yet acknowledge that He feels for me more than pity, and that affection like mine might well have deserved a return; Perhaps, He may own thus much when I lye on my deathbed!
The real way to do this is to use a food grade lye, but we're doing a work around of baking soda that has been previously baked in the oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour.