Hello friends!
It’s officially the first day of spring! Personally I love spring it’s the best time of the year. Watching all things come back to life after a long winters sleep. (depends where you live of course) My winter was a bit cool on a few occasions, but no real days of freezing. Which I think you need to kill off all the pesky bugs!
Also it’s getting to the point where I don’t need to light a fire. Less dust & smoke in the house. Cleaning out the ashes from the fireplace. What I want to know is what do you all do with the ashes? You can of course spread them over the garden or mix it into your compost. Has anyone tried transforming it into lye?
You can make your own but it’s much easier to just buy it, which most websites tell me. It’s also hard to determine how potent homemade lye is, there are old fashioned ways to test it but still not really reliable. To make good soap, you need 100% sodium hydroxide, you should also run your recipe through a lye calculator when you’re making soap. I need to give it a go! But for now I think I will continue to use the wood ash on my garden & compost heap. I’ll buy lye when I want to make soap.
I’m off outdoors to enjoy the spring sunshine. Until next time….
Beebasic 