Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Soft Soaps

35 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Almond Soap (Genuine almond soap is made)

Genuine almond soap is made from oil of sweet almonds, 50 pounds, and soda lye of 36° Baumé, 25 pounds, the latter being gradually added to…

Ordinary Cocoanut Oil Soap

100 pounds cocoanut oil-or 90 pounds cocoanut oil and 10 pounds of either tallow or palm oil-saponified by the cold process with 225 pounds…

Cocoanut Oil Soap (Pounds cocoanut oil and pounds)

100 pounds cocoanut oil and 56 pounds caustic soda lye of 36° Baumé, treated according to the cold process, will produce 153 pounds…

Paris Toilet Tablet Soap

87 pounds of this soap can be made by the cold process by using the following ingredients : 20 pounds tallow, 30 pounds cocoanut oil, 8…

Paris Toilet Round Soap

25 pounds cocoanut oil, 75 pounds lard, 50 to 52 pounds caustic soda lye of 36° Baumé, will produce 150 pounds of the soap.

Shaving Soap

Either 66 pounds tallow and 34 pounds cocoanut oil-or 33 pounds of tallow, the same quantity of palm oil, and 34 pounds cocoanut…

Washing Soap

A mixture of either 60 pounds tallow-or 30 pounds each of tallow and palm oil-with 40 pounds of cocoanut oil, treated by the cold process…

To Test Lye

In testing the 25 pounds salt water of 12º Baumé, will turn strength of lyes with a hydrometer, an exact out 244 pounds washing soap…

Cheap Washing Soap

60 pounds employed by soap-makers and dyers were cocoanut oil with 40 pounds of either tallow absolutely pure; but as this is seldom, if or…

White Soap

Lard, 40 pounds; more or less pasty or gelatinous; and they and caustic soda lye, of 350 Baumé, 20 may be made either by the boiling or…

Fig Soap

The fat stock is chiefly the heat being continued all the time at a moderate degree, the remaining 10 pounds of oil-generally olive…

Shaving Cream

This is made by melting 20 pounds of lard in a steam bath at a temperature of 212°, and then letting 5 pounds of caustic potassa lye of 36°…

Rypophagon Soap

This is a warm, and stir the mixture together. Allow mixture of equal parts of pale yellow resin it to stand over night, if convenient. In…

To Make Good Lye

Hickory ing soft soap (when it is not desirable to use solution be complete. After repose, pour off the potash lye), but those from sound…

Fine Shaving Cream

Take of clarified lard, 7 pounds (avoirdupois); potash lye (26 per cent . of caustic potash), 34 pounds; rectified spirits, 3 ounces; oil…

To Make Soft Soap (Break up into an iron pot)

Break up 8 into an iron pot with about 3 gallons boiling water, in the morning pour it hot over the water; melt in another iron pot 8…

To Pulverize Hard Soap

Hard shavings, dried in the sun, or by heat, bar soap should be scraped or planed into fine

To Make Turpentine Soap

Cut up 3 pounds brown soap and melt it in 7 thoroughly, and then pounded or crushed. quarts water, then put it in a stone pot and After…

To Use Turpentine Soap

Make it may be sifted through a very fine sieve. very hot suds with some of the soap (see last…

To Analyze Soap

Take a small an hour. Then wash them out and rinse as vessel (a beaker glass), add ether to it, and other clothes are done. It is…

To Make Soft Soap Hard

Put contains in solution the fatty acids, while the into two distinct layers, the upper of which into a kettle 4 pailfuls of soft soap, and…

Labor-saving Soap

Take 2 pounds sal soda, 2 pounds yellow bar soap, and 10 quarts water. Cut the soap in slices , and boil together 2 hours; strain, and it…

To Test Soap

The readiest way to find whether soap will injure the delicate skin of women or children is to test it with the tongue. Good soap, in which…

To Make Candle Wicks

The wicks are composed of cotton yarn (what is known as No. 16 is a good size for the purfor the purpose); for candles of 8 to the pound…

To Make Mould Candles

The Candles. The Per cent. of Specific Weight. Crystallized Per cent. of Anhydrous Soda.

To Make Dip Candles

Dip can 630. Table showing the percentage dles are made by looping a number of sepanumber of sepaof Caustic Soda in Soda Lye. Specific…

Tallow for Making Candles

A good tallow for candles consists of about 1/30 beef and mutton suct. If required for summer use it will be improved by hardening…

To Make Lard Candles

To every 8 pounds of lard add 1 ounce of nitric acid. Having carefully weighed the lard, place it over a slow fire, or at least merely melt…

To Harden Tallow Candles

The following mixtures for hardening tallow candles are patented in England. The candles are successively and rapidly dipped, first in…

To Harden Tallow with Resin

To 1 pound tallow take 1 pound common res- 1 pound tallow take + pound common resin; melt them together, and mould the candles the usual…

To Cure Rabbit Skins

Lay serve them from the ravages of these insects, thoroughly beat the furs with a thin rattan, and air them for several hours, then…

To Clean Furs

Furs may be pearlash. When the soap is quite dissolved, cleaned as follows:-Strip the fur articles of their stuffing and binding, and lay…

To Clean Dark Furs

Sable, off the water, and dry by shaking them near chinchilla, squirrel, fitch, &c., should be a fire. When perfectly dry, curl each fibre…

To Clean Grebe

Carefully take ly into the fur with the hand. Repeat this as directed for the ostrich feathers. They two or three times; then shake the…

To Clean Light Furs

White furs. ermine, &c., may be cleaned as follows: swansdown may be washed in soap and 657. To Clean Swansdown. White , ermine, &c., may…

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