But the owner of a soap making business in California says on her blog that there is no lye present in the finished soap.

但是加州一个制皂企业的老板在她的博客里说现在的成品皂里没有碱液。

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Some people make soap with potash lye.

一些人用钾碱液制皂。

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It was hard work. The wet clothes were heavy, and the soap had lye in it.

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You can watch real artisans blowing glass, making lye soap and carving chairs the old-fashioned way.

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These use an electrical process to transform salt and water into chlorine and caustic soda (a.k.a. lye), which are the building blocks of everything from plastics to soap.

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