Sodium Hydroxide - Pure - Food Grade (Caustic Soda, Lye) (1 Pound Jar)

We purchased this to be used when baking soft pretzels when the recipe calls for a lye bath. It works really well and helps to create a chewy crust and a deep, caramelized color on your pretzels. It's easy enough to use that we allow our teenaged daughter to use it when she bakes after given the proper safety instructions and being supervised the first few times. The bottle arrived intact and well sealed. The childproof cap works as it should and the label includes clear safety instructions.

This is great if you like to bake a good tasty brown crusted bagel or bagel bread, it lasts forever, always measure water first and the add the powder to the water, that way you never have a too concentrated solution that could risk burning you! The product is great, I’ve baked a lot of pretzel bread with it and I’m not even half through it, so the prize is great for the amount of

Works great to dip my homemade pretzels. Very pleased

Got this for making pretzels. I wanted to make the pretzels the Bavarian way so I ordered this. I would just recommend wearing some nitrile gloves to be safe.Easy to use and did what I needed.

Arrived securely sealed and packaged for safety. The product seems pure in quality. It was effective for my use of it a soap ingredient. I will buy again.

Works as advertised. Unfortunately, the bottle is large and I was hoping it would last me at least 2 years or so. However, as other have warned, this product has a self-life and appears to gradually diminish in potency no matter how well you store it. I was careful to keep my sealed well and stored in a cool, dark place. Yet, it still got weaker. By my estimate, it weakens to about 65% of what it was after a year.

Good quality food grade lye for cold-process soap. I will buy again. Good value for the money.

Great for making small batches of soap!