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product_id: 1734939
title: "Essential Depot Pure Lye Drain Cleaner/Opener, 2 lbs. Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide Micro Beads - HDPE container with Resealable Child Resistant Cap"
brand: "essential depot"
price: "$125"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/1734939-essential-depot-pure-lye-drain-cleaner-opener-2-lbs-food
store_origin: NZ
region: New Zealand
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# Child-Resistant Resealable HDPE Container Evenly-Sized Micro Beads for Consistent Reaction 99.9% Pure Food Grade NaOH Essential Depot Pure Lye Drain Cleaner/Opener, 2 lbs. Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide Micro Beads - HDPE container with Resealable Child Resistant Cap

**Brand:** essential depot
**Price:** $125
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚡ Unlock the power of pure precision—clean, create, and conquer with confidence!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Essential Depot Pure Lye Drain Cleaner/Opener, 2 lbs. Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide Micro Beads - HDPE container with Resealable Child Resistant Cap by essential depot
- **How much does it cost?** $125 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- essential depot enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted essential depot brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Secure Packaging:** Child-resistant, resealable container keeps product fresh and safe in any environment.
- • **Food-Grade Purity:** Safe for culinary uses like pretzels and bagels—professional quality you can trust.
- • **Versatile Powerhouse:** Ideal for soap making, drain cleaning, and even biodiesel production—one product, endless possibilities.
- • **Certified & Compliant:** Meets all US DOT and Consumer Product Safety standards for worry-free shipping and handling.
- • **Precision Micro Beads:** Ensures uniform saturation and flawless saponification every time.

## Overview

Essential Depot Pure Lye Drain Cleaner offers 2 lbs of 99.9% food-grade sodium hydroxide in evenly-sized micro beads, ensuring consistent chemical reactions for soap making, culinary uses, and drain cleaning. Packaged in a child-resistant, resealable HDPE container, it meets all US safety and transportation regulations, making it a reliable and versatile choice for professionals and DIY enthusiasts alike.

## Description

Full description not available

## Features

- Sodium Hydroxide - NaOH - Caustic Soda - Lye - Food Grade - Evenly-Sized Micro Pels (beads or particles) of pure Sodium Hydroxide.
- This is Ground Service only shipment, within the continental U.S. (the 48 contiguous states). Please permit time for the delivery.
- Evenly-sized micro pels mean an equal saturation of water for each pel. Equal saturation of each sodium hydroxide particle (the micro pel) means consistent saponification, whether that saponification be in soap making, pretzels, hominy, or any other application.
- Certificate of Analysis available upon request and providing of Batch Number from the product label.
- HDPE Plastic Container with Resealable Child Resistant Cap keeps product dry.
- NON-GMO: Not manufactured with and does not contain genetically modified organisms.
- CRUELTY FREE: Not tested on animals beginning 1st January 1991.
- Used for Pretzel, Bagel, and Soap Making.
- Auto Cleaning Product - Must be Used with Caution. Perfect for Bio Diesel Generation.
- THIS SHIPMENT IS REGULATED FOR TRANSPORTATION. ESSENTIAL DEPOT'S PACKAGING MEETS ALL APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION as well as the CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSON. ESSENTIAL DEPOT IS A CERTIFIED SHIPPER AND TRANSPORTS THIS PRODUCT IN SAFE AND LEGAL PACKAGING BY A LEGAL CARRIER.

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Essential Depot
- **Scent:** Unscented
- **Item Weight:** 0.91 Kilograms
- **State of matter:** Solid
- **Product Benefits:** evenly sized micro pels, anhydrous, hygroscopic, deliquescent, little or no dust, beads flow and roll easily

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Can you use this product to clear clogged drains?**
A: Yes, but be careful of fumes or flakes ending up in your eyes! Also, if you have older or metal traps be careful because concentrated amounts of sodium hydroxide can eat trough age related thinning of pipes. I have used used many times but also with a snake as I have found a clog form near a hardening formation. The sodium will help with the clog now but the but the snake is insurance for the future.Phil

**Q: what exactly is the difference between the food grade lye and the lye for cleaning your drain when you want to make homemade soap?**
A: It's about product purity. Food grade is guaranteed pure...so there are no additives that could screw up your soap batch. 

When they produce non-food-grade lye, companies are allowed to add small amounts of anti-caking agents or other ingredients without declaring it on the label. These chemicals could either "dilute" the strength of your lye slightly, or cause a side reaction in your soap that you don't want, causing your batch to seize or behave in an unexpected way, such as interfering with your colorants or scents.

Also, since the additive is not declared on the label, they can change it at any time or stop using it whenever they want. That could cause you to have random, unexpected soaping issues that can't be explained or avoided.

Soap-making can be complex enough as it is. Don't make it harder than it has to be.

**Q: What does "Buy 5, Get 5 Off" mean?**
A: You can look at it price $2.94 off $1.00 = $ 1.94    , so if you buy 5 bottles at $ 1.94 your payment is $9.70 plus shipping. But you have to use there Promotional offer code were checking out. Hope this helps.Special Offers and Product PromotionsSave $5.00 on every 5 (** NOTE: YOU WILL SEE APPLIED ON FINAL CHECKOUT SCREEN ***) you purchase offered by Essential Depot, Inc.. Here's how (restrictions apply)

**Q: What weight/volume of micro beads do I need to add to weight/volume of water to make a solution used in pretzels?**
A: I have been using this for year for my pretzels and I normally use a 5% solution.  So if you use 1000grams of water slowly which is 50grams of lye beads.

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*Last updated: 2026-01-27*