Regarding your question "Other than lye, is soap dangerous?" the short answer is "No!". From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Soap - Preparing the 1st color] Reference
For now they must brew the Christmas ale, steep the Christmas fish in lye, and do their Christmas baking and Christmas scouring. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
'Lutefisk' is an infamous Norwegian dish composed of fish soaked in lye. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: December 14, 2003 - December 20, 2003 Archives] Reference
In 1785, he introduced a bleaching liquid called lye de Javelle and publicized his technique without patenting it. From Wordnik.com. [Covenant Zone] Reference
It is also known as lye or caustic soda. n-Propanol is an alcohol commonly used as a solvent in the pharmaceutical industry. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
Other than the lye, is soap dangerous?. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Soap - Preparing the 1st color] Reference
The effect of the boiling in the lye is the removal of the glutinous matter, which renders it possible to wind off the silk. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Onct I put concentrated lye in his coffee by mistake. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
The dedde on heapes doeth lye, the tender babes as Lions praies. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
There the caldrons are ready with boiling lye, for don't you know?. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
Water; let them lye no longer than to be well wash'd: Lay them on a. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733)] Reference
These vegetable oils are treated with lye to make them more viscous. From Wordnik.com. [Diesel: A cleaner option?] Reference
Weeds; let it lye a fortnight, and in that time it will rot, and turn to. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
Before adding the lye to the strained grease, add 1 large cupful of borax. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
Stir lye into kettle containing grease and stir constantly until very thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
Is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lye fallow and untilled. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Chusma saw the lie the lye tried to tell and so, she knew, could everyone else. From Wordnik.com. [LYES] Reference
Into 1 quart of cold water dissolve the contents of one can of Babbits potash or lye. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
He made a lye from birch-ashes and water to harden the iron in, but it was all in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
The Simplot Co., along with others, learned how to peel potatoes with lye and scrubbers. From Wordnik.com. [Getting at Nature's Edible Gifts] Reference
If the nurses told us the bathe the baby in lye, our only question would be, "Should we heat the lye?". From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: Loving an Agonizing Read] Reference
It had, however, been expunged from the official YouTube "Sesame Street" page which had been washed down with lye. From Wordnik.com. [Katy Perry video yanked from PBS's "Sesame Street"] Reference
Before the head is washed with this lye it must be rubbed with honey, and continue both for three successive days. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly husk under stones in the River: these be the speciall Baits for these kinde of Fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Angling Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation] Reference
Take of lye, rather weak, warm it and stir in of slippery elm bark or flaxseed, or meal sufficient to form a poultice. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
As the 2 is said to lye behind the 1, so it lyeth before the 3, as the 3 lyeth behind the 2, so it lyeth before the 4. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
This Creature useth to lye near Rivers in his Lodging, which he cunningly & artificially builds with Boughs, Twiggs and Sticks. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
England, and departed this life in the year 1678; and near this place lye the bodies of Richard Kerdp, Esq, his predecessor in ye. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The Perry/Elmo video had, however, been expunged from the official YouTube "Sesame Street" page, which had been washed down with lye. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa de Moraes on Katy Perry's 'Sesame Street' controversy] Reference
The simplest way is to take a pailful of lye, to which put a piece of copperas half as big as a hen's egg; boil in a copper or tin kettle. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
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