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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 oil is heated hot paste. to 60° Fahr., and 1/2 pound caustic soda is 555. To Perfume, Cut and Stamp added, with constant stirring. In another Toilet Soap. When extracts or bouquets vessel 1/2 pound white Venetian turpentine is are used, they must be added to the comheated, and when quite hot, stirred into the pound in meal, and incorporated with the copper kettle. This kettle is then covered mass by kneading it with the hands; for the apthe hands; for the apand left for 4 hours, being gently heated, after plication of heat would impair the delicacy of which the fire is increased until the contents the odor, as well as occasion loss by its evaploss by its evapare perfectly clear; then 1 pound ox-gall is oration. In large establishments this is done added. After this, sufficient perfectly dry by passing the meal repeatedly between mar- Castile soap is stirred into the mixture to ble rollers. cause the whole to yield but little under the The soap is now ready to be put into the pressure of the finger; for which purpose, from 1 to 2 pounds of soap are required for the above quantity. After cooling, the soap is cut into pieces. It is excellent, and will not injure the finest colors. cooling frames, which is a rectangular well, made of a series of wooden frames, resting successively one upon the other. In a day or two it is sufficiently hard to be cut into tablets of the size of the sections of each frame; they are set up edgewise, and left for several days to dry, and are then barred by means of a wire. The sections or lifts of the frames Toilet Soaps. To this class be- regulate the width of the bars, and the gauges long the finer kinds of scented soaps, which have emollient properties. They are rarely made direct by the perfumer, the body or basis being a well-selected white soap, subsequently cleaned and purified. For the choicest grades, the body should be made of a mixture of olive and sweet-almond oil, as the fat stock. Lard and beef tallow make the next best stock; and for palm soap a small quantiadjust their breadth-these latter being made so as to cut bars or squares of four, six, eight or any required number to the pound of soap.

The bars are further subdivided into tablets, and subjected to pressure for the purpose of imparting solidity, and ornamenting the exterior with some appropriate device, or impressing upon it the maker's name; the shape of the tablet being determined by the form of the mould or die-box in which it is pressed. The mixture of olive oil soap, 60 pounds; and press is of ordinary construction, with spiral springs to throw out the soap tablet from the die-box as soon as it is pressed. In some factories the pressure is more effectually accomplished by means of a steam hammer, which is made to give three blows, directly vertical, to each tablet of soap. Savonettes or soap-balls are shaped by rotating blocks of soap upon a soap scoop made of brass, with sharp edges. curd soap, 40 pounds; colored with 1 pound of finely bolted vermilion. The perfume consisting of attar of rose, 6 ounces; attars of santal and geranium, each 1 ounce; and tincture of musk, 8 ounces; must be added to the cold soap in meal, and incorporated by kneading. The oil soap may be replaced by curd soap, but the quality of the rose soap will not then be so fine.