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Tallow Resin Soap

About 15 add 2 ounces spirits of hartshorn, and stir. per cent. of resin can be mixed with tallow It may be scented with any essential oil, or without injuring the color and firmness of the odor, and colored, if desired; then run off soap. A larger proportion deteriorates the quality and produces an inferior soap. Some a good soap for chapped hands, and is free soap-makers melt the resin and tallow together before saponifying; but it is better to make a soap of each in separate boilers, and then mix and boil them together thoroughly for half an hour, and strain through a sieve before filling the frames. and molded into cakes fit for toilet use. It is from any disagreeable odor.

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