protostar wrote:I have one more question, which I cannot find the answer to, and I think that this might actually work.
Could I perform Lazyman's extraction tek with washing soda instead of lye?
In other words, do everything exactly as is outlined in Lazyman's tek, except replace lye with washing soda?
Thank you.
How hard did you look, protostar? There are plenty of threads dealing with the substitution. Basically Sodium Carb is too weak to use in place of Sodium Hydroxide in a standard STB tek. Emulsions form way too easily and you will have little to no yield. If you want a food safe option, use Calcium Hydroxide in a Dry Tek, as TGO pointed out.