Making soap is serious business.

[thefelinepunk]

Chemistry has an allure because sometimes, it can be very dangerous. Explosions can happen. Fires can happen. Burns, in both of those cases, can happen.

Making soap = chemistry. No two ways about it. The use of lye instantly turns your kitchen into a chem lab.

I've learned that lye is some serious shit. From Wikipedia:

"Hazardous Reactions

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[magnaapostasy]

Every time you turn on your car you're igniting a spark in a system that, right now, while you're sitting there, has some very explosive stuff going from behind you to in front of you. The only thing that keeps you alive is, I suspect, the very careful exposure of the one to the other.

Every time you run a lawn mower you're spinning a blade fast enough to chew up flesh and muscle in a hurry about three feet away from you.

Every time you drink a beer you're ingesting some poison.

And every time you twitch a finger you're running enough current through your body to fry a computer. :-) And every time you take a step you're coming down with enough force to kill an insect.