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To Make Good Lye

Hickory ing soft soap (when it is not desirable to use solution be complete. After repose, pour off the potash lye), but those from sound beech, the clean portion from the dregs (if any ) into maple, or almost any kind of hard wood, exclean bottles for use, and at once closely cork them. If the solution be not sufficiently transparent, a little rectified spirit should be added to it before decantation. A little spirit (fully proof) may be added if it be desired to render it thinner. If much essential oil be used to perfume it, the transparency of the product will be lessened. 605. Soft Olive Oil Soap; Medicinal or Toilet Soft Soap is soap made of olive oil and potash. It is yellowish-white, inodorous, and of the consistence of thick honey. It is the soft soap (sapo mollis) of the British Pharmacopœia. 606. White Soft Soap is soap made of lard and potash. Only used in cosmetics and as a toilet soap. cept oak, will answer well. A common barrel, set upon an inclined platform, makes a very good leach, but one made of boards set in a trough in V shape is to be preferred, for the strength of the ashes is better obtained, and it may be taken to pieces when not in use, and laid up. First, in the bottom of the piece of carpet or woolen cloth, which is leach put a few sticks; over them spread a much better than straw; put on a few inches of ashes, and from 4 to 8 quarts lime; fill with ashes, moistened, and tamp down welltamp the firmest in the centre. It is difficult. without removing them after a day's leaching, to obtain the full strength of ashes in a barrel and mixing them up and replacing. The top added to make up the proper quantity. Use should be first thrown off, and new ashes boiling water for second leaching. This lye should be sufficiently strong to float a potato. about 4 gallons the above lye, and boil up