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Mottled Soap Balls

Cut the soap (recently prepared, and not too dry) into dice, or small square pieces, roll them in colored powder (see below), and then mould them into balls by powerful pressure, observing to mix the colors as little as possible.

The colors usually employed, and which should be in very fine powder, are: Blueindigo, powder-blue, or smalts. Green-powder-blue and bright yellow-ochre. Orangeyellow deepened with a little red. Red— red bole, sesquioxide of iron, or jeweler's rouge. Yellow-bright yellow-ochre, or Dutch pink.

By varying the shade of color, which is done by diluting it with a little farina or chalk, and by using soap-dice separately coated with two or more colors, 'mottled savonettes' of any color, or mixture of colors, may be produced at will.