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Cocoanut Oil Soap (Put pounds cocoanut oil)
Put 100 pounds cocoanut oil and 100 pounds caustic scented by stirring in the desired perfume soda lye of 27° Baumé into a soap kettle; when cool. beil and mix thoroughly for 1 or 2 hours, until 548. Το Make Home-made Caustic the paste gradually thickens; then diminish Soda. Dissolve 6 pounds common washing the heat, but continue stirring till the cooling soda in 4 gallons warm water; slack 6 pounds paste assumes a white, half-solid mass; then clean fresh quicklime in a tub, using only as transfer quickly to the frames. A mixture of much water as is needed to crumble it perfectto crumble it perfectequal parts of coccanut oil and tallow will ly; add the slacked lime to the solution of make a very fine filled scap. (See No. 538.) soda; stir the two together, adding 4 gallons Cocoanut oil mixed with almost any fats, boiling water; stir thoroughly and let it settle; if they are not in too large proportions, will produce filled soaps.