Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Toilet Soaps

21 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

To Make Home-made Soap

the containing kettle covered, its contents be- Fill an iron kettle two-thirds full of the con- come gradually fluid, and in this state…

Ox-gall Soap

Gall soap, for the washing of fine silken cloths and ribbons, is prepared in the following manner: In a vessel of copper 1 pound cocoanut…

Savon au Bouquet

White soap, marble appearance is usually given to soap, 60 pounds; perfumed in the cold with 8 on the large scale, by watering the nearly…

Poncine Soap

Curd soap, 50 pounds; cocoanut oil soap, the same quantity, melted to paste and crutched with 10 or

Almond Soap (This is a very white soap)

This is a very white soap, which, when genuine, is made by 20 pounds of finely bolted pumice-stone powthe cold process (see Nos. 582 and…

White Windsor Soap

The genuine old white Windsor is made from a body of which a mixture of lard and olive oil is the fat stock; and attars of caraway…

Spermaceti Soap

The genuine spermaceti soap is superior to all others in emollient properties; but it is rarely made from pure stock, owing to the…

Palm Soap

Curd soap, made of a mixture of 1/2 lard, 1/80 bleached palm oil, and the remainder olive oil or spermaceti, constitutes the body of palm…

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…

Honey Soap

White curd soap, 40 pounds; melted and crutched with white honey, 10 pounds; storax, 2 pounds; and powdered benzoin, 1 pound.

Imitation Honey Soap

An imitation honey soap is made by melting together pale yellow soap, 100 pounds; soft soap, 14 pounds; and perfuming with attar of…

Transparent Soap

This amberlooking soap is made by dissolving hard white soap, previously reduced to meal and thoroughly dried, in alcohol. A steanı-bath,

Frangipani Soap

Curd soap, colored brown with caramel, 7 pounds; per- fitted with a still-head, makes a good confumed with a mixture of attars of neroli…

Rose Soap

This is made from a not exceed 2120. After solution, the whole must be allowed time for settling; after best yellow soap, with or without…

Mottled Soap Balls

Cut the soap cast it in ball form. Previous to settling it (recently prepared, and not too dry) into dice, may be colored as desired-red…

Glycerine Soap

Any mild toilet yellow deepened with a little red. Redsoap (as the basis of bouquet, rose, or Wind- red bole, sesquioxide of iron, or…

Musk Soap

Best tallow soap, 30 pounds; palm oil soap, 20 pounds; powdered ounces; beat them to a uniform mass in a cloves, pale roses and…

Orange Flower Soap

Best tal- drargyri bichloridi" of medical writers. The low soap, 30 pounds; palm oil soap, 20 above has been recommended in various skin…

Cinnamon Soap

This is usually Soap. Take 1/2 pound white curd or Castile a mixture of tallow and oil soaps, like that of soap (recent); 1 ounce best…

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…

Sand Soap Balls

These are pre- 580. Whale-oil Soap to Destroy Inpared by adding to the melted soap about half sects. Render common Iye caustic, by boilits…

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