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Shaving Cream

This is made by melting 20 pounds of lard in a steam bath at a temperature of 212°, and then letting 5 pounds of caustic potassa lye of 36° Baumé run in very slowly, during constant stirring with a wooden paddle; when the paste becomes thick, 5 pounds more of lye are added in the same manner. After several hours' stirring the paste becomes firm, and is finished. It is it the next day; stir it very frequently during low it to rest for three months in the cellar. the day and for several successive days.

Al Soap. Place a shallow iron kettle, to hold 609. Shaker Method of Making Soft from 4 to 6 barrels, just out of the wash-room, under cover of a shed. Extend or inch pipe for steam to the middle of the bottom. bending it to form of surface, and terminating with open end. Take another pipe to dis charge cold water over the top of the kettle then transferred to a mortar and triturated Use the best quality of first sorts of potash, until the soap becomes perfectly even throughin the proportion of 6 pounds of potash to 7 out, and assumes a pearly appearance. Attar pounds of grease, for a barrel of 40 gallons. of almonds is the perfume for almond cream; Break up the potash into small lumps, and and attar of rose for rose cream. They are dissolve it in say 2 pails of hot water to 24 dissolved in a little alcohol, and added during pounds. It dissolves rather slowly when the the trituration. The rose cream is colored at potash is good. When dissolved, put the sothe same time with tincture of alkanet. lution into the kettle, add the grease quite