I hope everyone knows that caustic soda — sodium hydroxide — is really lye. It’s highly corrosive and has a viscosity 78 times that of water. How can any water authority consider it safe for ...

Discover the 6 health risks associated with chemical hair relaxers, from scalp burns to serious long-term conditions, plus ...

The film details the process of soap making, starting with Carl Mason's laboratory demonstration using fat and sodium hydroxide (lye). It explains the chemical reaction known as saponification, where ...

The process requires lye and a common pool chemical used to decrease pH. Sodium hydroxide isn’t super safe, but it is much less problem to buy, store, and use than battery acid. Aluminum ...

The basic idea behind the “Mining Water” project is to turn the highly concentrated brine into derivatives useful for industry, including sodium hydroxide [caustic soda, also known as lye].