428. CHEMICAL SOAP

This is for washing cloths with one-half the labour of that with
common bar soap. Take 16 lbs. English bar white soap, 3-1/2 lbs.
sal-soda, 1 lb. pulverized rosin, 8 oz. salt; put these into 5
gallons soft water over a fire until dissolved; then put the same
into a barrel, and fill it with cold water, after which add 2 oz.
spirits of turpentine, and stir while cooling.


429. ENGLISH BAR SOAP

Take of water 6 gallons, good stone lime 3 lbs., sal-soda 20 lbs.,
borax 4 oz., fat 15 lbs., (tallow is best,) pulverized rosin 10
lbs., and 4 oz. of beeswax; put the water in a kettle on the fire,
and when nearly boiling, add the lime and sal-soda; when these are
dissolved, add the borax, boil gently and stir until this is also
dissolved, then add the fat, rosin and beeswax, and boil all very
gently until it shows flaky on the stick, then pour into moulds.


430. BROWN WINDSOR SOAP

This is made by colouring the English bar soap with the precipitate
of iron, Venetian red, or vandyke brown, and scenting while not too
hot with any of the essential oils, or a mixture of them according
to fancy.


431. YELLOW SOAP