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You can carefully strain the lye water with a large empty tea bag. That's what I do.

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I use a fine mesh stainless steel strainer or paper paint strainers are cheap and disposable.
A little bit of Lye in the new plastic kind of pipes is fine, that's what they put in drain cleaners after all! Just flush with cold water for a few minutes afterward.


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Lauri,
Are the paint strainers fine enough?

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I found some really fine ones in a kind of "paper cone" at Home Depot that worked fairly well. I didn't think the kind that looks like a giant hair-net to be fine enough though. ( hope I described that well enough.)


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 Post subject: Disposing of LYE water
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Hi there I hope you don’t mind me putting in my two cents worth. :lol:

I have handled dangerous chemicals and explosives for almost twenty years. Some of that time as a toxic waste site engineer. The best way of disposing of concentrated lye solution is to neutralize it. First of all always use your safety goggles and gloves!!!!! SLOWLY Pour the lye water into a 5 gallon plastic bucket, with about a gallon of cold water already in it, after it has cooled down. Stir until mixed. Add a bottle of Vinegar to another gallon of water in another bucket. SLOWLY mix one into the other. When it has been mixed together real well it should be close to neutral, then you can simply pour it down the drain. Follow it up with room temp water to remove any traces of the chemicals. The mixing of the acidic water with the base water will neutralize the mixture and dissolve any left over lye grains. Some PVC pipes are not rated for solid lye crystals. That is one reason that they changed over to liquid drain cleaners, they don't generate the same kind of heat as crystal lye does. The grains of un-melted lye could sit in the trap and may in rare cases burn a hole in the pipe. Never pour concentrated lye water into a modern septic system, it could cost you a lot to get it repaired. :twisted:

Just remember the idea is to dilute both chemicals until it is safe to mix them together. Never add vinegar to concentrated lye..... EVER.

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Could she just rebatch the soap and use in her confetti soap...like I do when I botch a batch? :lol:

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