r/homechemistry

1.8K archived posts · May 2012 – Sep 2026

On Creating a Lab in Your Home

r/homechemistry

A subreddit for building your own lab at home and doing chemistry in it.

Created May 8, 2012

12KMembers (last snapshot)

1.8KArchived posts

Please try and keep things professional!

I would like to see this site grow into helping one another explore chemistry, since nothing teaches us better than hands on experimentation, but given this is a new subreddit it has the potential to go very bad.

First and foremost, illicit drugs and illegal substances will not be synthesized here. Common reagents that may be controlled I don't mind as much.
Other than that, have fun and help us all out!

Chemicals that may put you on a DEA watch list, pay cash if you can, or synthesize your own.

List of commonly available chemicals thanks to u/zyks

Search consumer products by chemicals they contain (thx to u/gfrnk86)

http://www.sciencemadness.org/ Courtesy of u/MrBurd

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