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White Soap
Lard, 40 pounds; more or less pasty or gelatinous; and they and caustic soda lye, of 350 Baumé, 20 may be made either by the boiling or cold pounds. Melt the fat by a heat not exceeding process. Of the soft soaps used in perfumery, 150° Fahr.; add, during constant stirring, 10 that known as fig soap is the only one that is pounds of the lye. After one hour's stirring , boiled.