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Bugs
Chiggers |
8/10/02
Linda:
I ordered the soap for my face & I
love it. Like the feel of it. I wanted to share one thing with you
that we didn’t know.
We used it on a bad case of
chiggers. My husband & son are Real Estate Appraisers & often have to
walk over vacant property. We tried everything on the market for
chiggers and could not get relief. One night my husband asked about
the lye soap so I said what have you got to lose.
Well, now as “Paul Harvey says”
NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY! It really worked & I have shared
my soap & that is why I need more.
Thanks!
Margaret ____
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Bugs
Garden |
Oct 29, 2000
Stewart’s Crafts:
I’m writing to let you know why I am
placing an order for your lye soap. I thought it was interesting and
would like to share a few excerpts from a newspaper article I came
across earlier this year.
“An old-fashioned lye soap was used
in the garden in the early 1900’s as an effective elixir that nukes
powdery mildew and blackspot, aphids, spider mites, mealy bugs, white
fly, psyllids, and scale on most plants, including roses, perennials,
vegetables and houseplants. It wasn’t called ‘organic gardening,’ it
was just a cheap, tried-and-true common sense gardening aid. Just
splash the used dish and laundry water on plants with fungus and bug
problems.
To make a small batch of soap
spray, rub the bar against a cheese grater, then dissolve one heaping
teaspoon of the soap flakes in one gallon of very hot tap water in an
old plastic milk jug. Let it sit a couple days, shaking the jug daily
to dissolve lumps. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle or your
garden pump sprayer and spray affected plants every seven to ten
days. A bar of soap will make 16 gallons of a very safe and effective
fungicide and insecticide that won’t harm the environment nor make
your vegetables and flowers and herbs toxic.
How does it work? The lye content
of the soap (potassium hydroxide) alkalinizes the leaf surface, but
powdery mildew and blackspot fungi need an acidic leaf cuticle to
grown on. This lye also supplies the plant nutrient potassium to the
soil when it rinse off and is too weak to significantly raise the pH
of your soil. Aim the spray up at the leaves if you are after
blackspot fungus on roses. The fats in the soapy water help suffocate
bad bugs by plugging up their breathing holes.”
I have had trouble with fungus on
my roses and I don’t want to use chemicals because of my pets. This
way of controlling insects also fascinated me and after a search on
the web, I came across your site and your soap was the closest
“old-fashioned lye soap” I could find. I look forward to my order and
while I am spraying the garden, I will use your soap to combat itchy,
dry skin associated with our climate.
Sincerely,
Judy La_____
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