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Shaving Soap
Either 66 pounds tallow and 34 pounds cocoanut oil-or 33 pounds of tallow, the same quantity of palm oil, and 34 pounds cocoanut oil-treated by the cold process with 120 pounds caustic soda lye of 27 Baumé, will make 214 pounds of shaving soap. An addition of 12 pounds of salt water of 12° Baumé to the palm oil mixmixture, will add 12 pounds to the yield of soap.