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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 will be fit for use. Put the clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every pail of water in which you boil them, add a pound of soap. They will need no rubbing; merely riuse them out, and they will be perfectly are by Mr. Eugène Lormé. clean and white. 622. Lormé's Tables. The following tables are used to transform stronger lyes into weaker of a definite degree of strength, and The first column at the left of each table 617. Το Estimate the Quality of shows the quantity and the degree of the lye Soap. The quality of soap may be properly to be diluted. estimated from the amount of fatty acids The second indicates the quantity of water which any given specimen contains.

The to be added to the lye. following simple analysis may be performed The third gives the amount of the lye obby any one, and may be relied upon as giving good results. The soap to be examined should be dissolved in water. If distilled water cannot be readily obtained, rain water will answer well enough. When a perfect solution is obtained, add hydrochloric acid.

After a little while the fatty acids will be found to be separated from the other constituents of the soap. These should be collected, and their relative weight for any given quantity estimated. The relative weight thus found will be a sufficiently just indication of the quality.