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Brown Windsor Soap

Curd 568. Floating Soap. All the hard soap, 100 pounds; cocoanut oil soap, and pale soaps increase bulk by mechanical batting of yellow resin soap, each 25 pounds; color with the paste; the loss of density thus produced caramel (see No. 694), 8 ounces; and perfume gives them the property of floating in water. with a mixture of attars of caraway, cloves, The batting is best accomplished by means of thyme, cassia, petit-grain, and lavender, each a churn-twirl, rotating on a pivot in the bot- 8 ounces. Morfit's oleic soap, of first grade, tom of the melting pan, and put in motion by is peculiarly adapted as a body for brown a handle.

Windsor soap, as it gives a rich lather, and is Expose 5 pounds olive-oil or almond soap, very smooth and highly emollient. More- and 14 pints soft water in a bright copper pan, over, it contains its normal moisture for a to a steam or water heat, and assiduously beat great length of time.

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