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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 fin- ounces of extract bouquet; or in warm paste ished soap with a strong lye of crude soda with a mixture of attar of bergamot, 8 ounces; (preferably one rich in sulphurets), by means of attars of cloves and sassafras, each 1/2 ounce; a watering-pot furnished with a rose-spout. In attar of thyme, 1 ounce; attar of neroli, 1 Castile soap it is given with a solution of sul- ounce. The soap body must be previously phate of iron, used in the same way. On the small scale, with toilet soaps, the mottle is either given in the way noticed under "Mottled Soap Balls" (see No. 576), or, in a like manner, by combining some of the soap, colored at the time of scenting it, with the remaining uncolored portion. colored brown with 1 pound of caramel. The soap scented with the attars is inferior to that perfumed with extract bouquet. The perfume, and with it the title of the soap, can be varied according to the caprice of fashion.