a friend tried to get his hands on some sodium hydroxide by buying pipe cleaner..

[lorax]

he said that on the ingredients list were sodium hydroxide and some sort of additive. i checked online what kind of additives are used for pipe cleaner and it said that most use aluminum.

can my friend still use that stuff for extraction or will it leave traces in the spice?

peace!

 

[Noman]

No.
That stuff is around half lye with a bunch of surfactants and aluminum to create heat and turbulance.
The aluminum you can filter out, but the surfactants will give you problems when it's time to separate your NP.

 

[Tripples]

I wouldn't want to chance it - Aluminium ingestion leads to Alzheimer's - Also don't use a deodorant that has Aluminium in it.

Look for caustic soda UK or lye USA

 

[lorax]

my friend told me that he has now gotten some pure sodium hydroxide from a store selling electronic spare parts like transistors and stuff. they probably use it for cauterization of platines.

peace.