Lye is sometimes used to mean sodium hydroxide. If you bought lye from a chemical supply warehouse, that’s what you’d expect. Lye can also mean combining ash with water. You have conflated these two types of lye, which is incorrect. Wood ash lye is typically high in potassium hydroxide.
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Lye is sometimes used to mean sodium hydroxide. If you bought lye from a chemical supply warehouse, that’s what you’d expect. Lye can also mean combining ash with water. You have conflated these two types of lye, which is incorrect. Wood ash lye is typically high in potassium hydroxide.