

Belle Chemical Sodium Hydroxide - Pure - Food Grade (Caustic Soda, Lye) (2 Pound Jar)
Key item features
- High Purity: This sodium hydroxide is a minimum of 99% pure, ensuring top quality and effectiveness.
- Food Grade: Certified as food-grade USP/FCC, suitable for various food preparation uses.
- Versatile Uses: Ideal for soap making, cleaning, and food processing, including peeling fruits, processing cocoa, and glazing pretzels.
- Reclosable Jar: Comes in a reclosable HDPE jar that is BPA-free, ensuring safe and convenient storage.
- Soluble Properties: Easily dissolves in water, ethanol, and methanol, making it versatile for different applications.
- Soap Making: Essential for creating lye solutions that react with fats and oils to produce handmade soap through saponification.
- Cleaning Agent: Effective as an industrial cleaner and active ingredient in drain cleaners, often used with sodium silicate to prevent pipe corrosion.
Specs
- Weight2 lbs
- ManufacturerBelle Chemical
- Size2 lbs
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- : Made with materials that withstand wear and tear.
- : Offers good quality at a lower cost.
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This is the highest quality food-grade lye available. Also known as NaOH and caustic soda. This is an inorganic chemical at a minimum of 99% pure. It is a white solid with a highly caustic metallic base and alkali salt. Sodium hydroxide is soluble in water, ethanol, and methanol. This alkali is deliquescent and readily absorbs moisture and carbon dioxide in the air. In soap making, lye is mixed with water to create a lye solution. Lye solution, when mixed with fats and oils, will cause a chemical reaction called saponification (fancy for soap). The result of saponification is beautiful handmade soap. In food prep, food uses of sodium hydroxide include great ashing or chemical peeling of fruits and vegetables, chocolate and cocoa processing, caramel coloring production, poultry scalding, soft drink processing, and thickening ice cream. Olives are often soaked in sodium hydroxide for softening; pretzels and German lye rolls are glazed with a sodium hydroxide solution before baking to make them crisp. Owing to the difficulty in obtaining food-grade sodium hydroxide in small quantities for home use, sodium carbonate is often used in place of sodium hydroxide. In cleaning, industrial or technical, grade lye is often used as a cleaner and is the active ingredient in common drain cleaners. Sodium silicate is often used as a corrosion inhibitor to prevent lye from corroding pipes while it removes the blockage. Citric acid or other acids are often used in coordination with lye as it creates an exothermic reaction (heat) to leave sodium acetate (a salt) and water. An alternative, but less effective alternative, is sodium bicarbonate.
- reclosable hdpe jar
- bpa-free
- top quality, premium lye
- great for making soap, as a cleaner or for food prep
- food-grade usp/fcc
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Perfect Pretzel Potion!!
I am enjoying my sourdough journey and this product really helped me out. I'm learning to make large sourdough pretzels and this made all the difference. Came with all the proper warning instructions, which helped me know that this was a serious product meant to do a serious job. I stored it well and I will be using it often to make sourdough pretzels at home.
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Good product in a good container
Good container and good product from what I can tell. 2 pounds is quite a bit. I use this for soap making and everything turned to as expected. The container is a nice thick plastic and the lid attaches well so I do not worry about product falling out.
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Works well
Perfect for making soap. My soaps always turn out well. The smell is not overpowering. Good value. Will purchase again.















