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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, with tincture or small square pieces, roll them in colored powof alkanet; yellow, with tincture of turmeric; der (see below), and then mould them into orange, with a mixture of the two tinctures; balls by powerful pressure, observing to mix green, with tincture of chlorophyle; blue, the colors as little as possible. with tincture of indigo carmine. Transparent The colors usually employed, and which soap is rather translucent when first made, should be in very fine powder, are: and does not clear until perfectly dry. The indigo, powder-blue, or smalts. Green-powperfumes are the same as for the other soaps. der-blue and bright yellow-ochre. Orange-

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