Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)

Ingredient Name: Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)

What is it? Sodium hydroxide comes from salt water and is often used to balance pH, produce soap, and even purify drinking water.

Nourishing properties:*

• Helps to balance pH

 

 

 

 

 

*= This information has not been approved by the FDA.

 

 

 

References

“Sodium Hydroxide.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/sodium_hydroxide#section=Solubility.

Du, Fengmin, et al. “Sodium Hydroxide Production from Seawater Desalination Brine: Process Design and Energy Efficiency.” Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 52, no. 10, 2018, pp. 5949–5958., doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b01195.