The Miracles of Soy Gel

Nikki has been experimenting to find the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective way to strip the incredibly thick lead paint off these great old doors. There were so many epic layers of paint on them that they looked more like a geological survey of some untouched rock shelf than something that spends its days swinging back and forth in someone's home.
First, she applied soy gel, and waited. A lot of paint came up then, but not all of it...

Then she reapplied the soy gel, covered it with plastic, and let it sit. That seems to be working very quickly!

You can already see those layers of paint bubbling up under the plastic....