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Glycerine Soap Balls

To any Soaps. Before using mercurial or sulphur recently made toilet soap, sliced, and melted soap, finger-rings, ear-rings, and bracelets of by a gentle heat, without water (if possible), gold, &c., should be removed, and not readd Price's glycerine, in the proportion of 1 placed until some short time after the hands ounce to the pound; thoroughly incorporate have become quite dry; as otherwise they them by vigorous stirring, which should be will be tarnished, and even blackened and continued until the mass has cooled consider- corroded. The same applies to all other cosably, when it should be at once made into metics containing the same mineral ingreballs. dients.

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