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Saponification is a process that makes soap. It usually involves mixing a strong base with a triglyceride such as fat or oil. The lye soap that was used by many people in frontier areas was made by mixing ashes from burned wood with tallow; the ash provided the lye (sodium hydroxide), the tallow provided the fat.

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