I found this really neat old Eagle Lye pamphlet and wanted to share. I absolutely love the images.
*I’m posting this for entertainment purposes only. I am not recommending these uses for lye.
I found this really neat old Eagle Lye pamphlet and wanted to share. I absolutely love the images.
*I’m posting this for entertainment purposes only. I am not recommending these uses for lye.
Any orders placed from 05/07-05/24 will be shipped out on 05/25. I will be in Haiti and then Raleigh for the conference. More shirts will be listed when I get back as well!
Wow, those are cool graphics for sure. I love it! Thanks for sharing it. =o)
Oh My! That’s priceless! I love the last page, nice clean and white hands!
I absolutely love vintage! tfs
Love the graphics! It’s interesting how these layouts are reminiscent of today’s scrap-booking techniques. Thanks for posting these pages.
Ouch – I think it would “hurt my hands a bit” ! Loved the images.
What a cool little booklet! I wonder if using lye in those ways was standard in that day?
Love this vintage booklet…but after reading the fine print, I had to cringe…imagine giving it to a child gleefully… pouring it into the “bathroom closet” and possibly leaving some of the granules on the toilet seat! And can you imagine “leaving your hands clean & white”…good thing they probably didn’t think about too many lawsuits in 1870…poor hard working “women”!!
I think my hands shriveled while I was reading that, though if you think about it (not that I’d use lye in this way), the lye to water ratio is pretty small – 1 teaspoon per gallon. The directions for making soap were good; I guess the lady of the house is supposed to just whip out soap (without a stick blender!) in between mopping the floors where “the good man” has tracked in dirt, cleaning out the fridge and doing the laundry.
It was fun to read. Glad we don’t have to clean with lye! Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow, I just came across this. How times have changed. When my “good man” tracks up the floor, I tell HIM to clean it up. And it might keep your hands white, but only because it removed the top layer of skin. Sheesh. I’ll bet it did clean pretty well though.
“That’s It” sell the little girl lye.
Thanks I love the Book.
Love to see these old vintage pamphlets! It is so interesting to see the uses way back when and how things have changed!
My dad, when he found out I was making soap, told me of a great song that was popular probably in the 40′s. Here is a link to the whole routine, but the song about lye soap starts about 3:30.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQA6tBYAvms&feature=related
But its even better to see it on the TV:
The problem with this link is that he only sings the last verse of the song, starting at about minute 4.