Yep. My pan gets hand washing with a few drops of soap after every use and it's fine.
Lye, or sodium hydroxide, strips the seasoning layers. It used to be used in soap. People use it when restoring cast iron in the modern day to strip old seasoning off. Then they can start againt and re-seaaon!
Is that an americanism? I always found it silly in the age of digital type but there are still people who insist two spaces is correct and you can't do it any other way.
I had assumed it was some typewriter related thing, that with the fixed width space the typewriter can do it looks better with two spaces or something?
Is this not a thing outside of the US, and everyone has always used one space? How did the two spaces start???