ms8miranda

Oh....I guess I didn't explain myself well. I'm not looking for what's in lye but what's in this particular brand of lye-based drain cleaner. I didn't mention the brand name because I don't want a libel suit on my hands or something like that! The gray is definitely not dirt. It's hard to explain but it's definitely different than the same brand lye I just bought so I know this is the old lye-based drain cleaner they used to sell and they just stuck a sticker on the bottle that says 100% lye. Since I don't know what it has in it, I don't know if it's safe to use or sell all these soaps I've made with it.

I'm not scientifically inclined so please be patient with me! I make home-made soap with lye. I bought some drain cleaner which said 100% lye on the bottle. I've made many soaps with this but recently got suspicious when other soapmakers said their bottles of this particular brand of lye was pure white - mine was grayish and had bits of 'junk' in it. I wrote the company and they told me it was 100% lye and nothing else. Today I bought some more, opened the bottle and found it was TOTALLY DIFFERENT from those last bottles I bought earlier. From what I can gather in internet searches, this company used to sell this drain cleaner with other ingredients added but changed to 100% lye when Red Devil Lye was no longer available. I'm sure what I had was the old stuff and they mislabeled it. Of course, I wrote the company but haven't heard back yet and I'm not even sure they'll be honest with me. Where can I find the MSDS for this stuff? I arrived here doing an internet search for it. If I can't get the MSDS, how else can I find out what was in those bottles (I have some left)?