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border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> Best yellow soap, 1 cwt. Fig soft soap, 14 lbs. Otto of citronella, 1-1/2 lb. White Windsor Soap.
Curd soap, 1 cwt. Marine soap, 21 lbs. Oil soap, 14 lbs. Otto of caraway, 1-1/2 lbs.    "    thyme, }    "    rosemary, } of each 1/2 lb.     "    cassia, }     "    cloves, } of each 1/4 lb. Brown Windsor Soap.
Curd soap, 3/4 cwt. Marine soap, 1/4 " Yellow soap, 1/4 " Oil soap, 1/4 " Brown coloring (caramel), 1/2 pint. Otto of caraway, }     "     cloves, }     "     thyme, } each, 1/2 lb.     "     cassia, }     "     petit grain, }     "     French lavender, } Sand Soap.
Curd soap, 7 lbs. Marine soap, 7 lbs. Sifted silver sand, 28 lbs. Otto of thyme, }    "    cassia, }    "    caraway, } each, 2 oz.    "    French lavender, } Fuller's Earth Soap.
Curd soap, 10-1/2 lbs. Marine soap, 3-1/2 lbs. Fuller's earth (baked), 14 lbs. Otto of French lavender, 2 oz.    "     origanum, 1 oz.

The above forms are indicative of the method adopted for perfuming soaps while hot or melted.

All the very highly scented soaps are, however, perfumed cold, in order to avoid the loss of scent, 20 per cent. of perfume being evaporated by the hot process.

The variously named soaps, from the sublime "Sultana" to the ridiculous "Turtle's Marrow," we cannot of course be expected to notice; the reader may, however, rest assured that he has lost nothing by their omission.

The receipts given produce only the finest quality of the article named. Where cheap soaps are required, not much acumen is necessary to discern that by omitting the expensive perfumes, or lessening the quantity, the object desired is attained. Still lower qualities of scented soap are made by using greater proportions of yellow soap, and employing a very common curd, omitting the oil soap altogether.

Scenting Soaps hot.

In the previous remarks, the methods explained of scenting soap involved the necessity of melting it. The high temperature of the soap under these circumstances involves the obvious loss of a great deal of perfume by evaporation. With very highly scented soaps, and with perfume of an expensive character, the loss of ottos is too great to be borne in a commercial sense; hence the adoption of the plan of

Scenting Soaps cold.

This method is exceedingly convenient and economical for scenting small batches, involving merely mechanical labor, the tools required being simply an ordinary carpenter's plane, and a good marble mortar, and lignum vitæ pestle.

The woodwork of the plane must be fashioned at each end, so that when placed over the mortar it remains firm and not easily moved by the parallel pressure of the soap against its projecting blade.

To commence operations, we take first 7 lbs., 14 lbs., or 21 lbs. of the bars of the soap that it is intended to perfume. The plane is now laid upside down across the top of the mortar.

Things being thus arranged, the whole of the soap is to be pushed across the plane until it is all reduced into fine shavings. Like the French "Charbonnier," who does not saw the wood, but woods the saw, so it will be perceived that in this process we do not plane the soap, but that we soap the plane, the shavings of which fall lightly into the mortar as quickly as produced.

Soaping the Plane. Soaping the Plane.

Soap, as generally received from the maker, is the proper condition for thus working; but if it has been in stock any time it becomes too hard, and must have from one to three ounces of distilled water sprinkled in the shaving for every pound of soap employed, and must lay for at least twenty-four hours to be absorbed before the perfume is added.

When it is determined what size the cakes of soap are to be, what they are to sell for, and what it is intended they should cost, then the maker can measure out his perfume.

In a general way, soaps scented in this way retail from 4s. to 10s. per pound, bearing about 100 per cent. profit, which is not too much considering their limited sale. The soap being in a proper physical condition with regard to moisture, &c., is now to have the perfume well stirred into it. The pestle is then set to work for the process of incorporation. After a couple of hours of "warm exercise," the soap is generally expected to be free from streaks, and to be of one uniform consistency.

For perfuming soap in large portions by the cold process, instead of using the pestle and mortar as an incorporator, it is more convenient and economical to employ a mill similar in construction to a cake chocolate-mill, or a flake cocoa-mill; any mechanical apparatus that answers for mixing paste and crushing lumps will serve pretty well for blending soap together.

Before going into the mill, the soap is to be reduced to shavings, and have the scent and color stirred in; after leaving it, the flakes or ribands of soap are to be finally bound together by the pestle and mortar into one solid mass; it is then weighed out in quantities for the tablets required, and moulded by the hand into egg-shaped masses; each piece being left in this condition, separately laid in rows on a sheet of white paper, dries sufficiently in a day or so to be fit for the press, which is the same as that previously mentioned. It is usual, before placing the cakes of soap in the press, to dust them over with a little starch-powder, or else to very slightly oil the mould; either of these plans prevents the soap from adhering to the letters or embossed work of the mould—a condition essential for turning out a clean well-struck tablet.

The body of all the fine soaps mentioned below should consist of the finest and whitest curd soap, or of a soap previously melted and colored to the required shade, thus:—

Rose-colored Soap is curd soap stained with vermilion, ground in water, thoroughly incorporated when the soap is melted, and not very hot.

Green Soap is a mixture of palm oil soap and curd soap, to which is added powdered smalt ground with water.

Blue Soap, curd soap colored with smalt.

Brown Soap, curd soap with caramel, i.e. burnt sugar.

The intensity of color varies, of course, with the quantity of coloring.

Some kinds of soap become colored or tinted to a sufficient extent by the mere addition of the ottos used for scenting, such as "spermaceti soap," "lemon soap," &c., which become of a beautiful pale lemon color by the mere mixing of the perfume with the curd soap.

Otto of Rose Soap. (To retail at 10s. per pound.)
Curd soap (previously colored with vermilion), 4-1/2 lbs. Otto of rose, 1 oz. Spirituous extract of musk, 2 oz. Otto of santal, 1/4 oz.     "     geranium, 1/4 oz.

Mix the perfumes, stir them in the soap shavings, and beat together.

Tonquin Musk Soap.
Pale brown-colored curd soap, 5 lbs. Grain musk, 1/4 oz. Otto of bergamot, 1 oz.

Rub the musk with the bergamot, then add it to the soap, and beat up.

Orange-Flower Soap.
Curd soap, 7 lbs. Otto of neroli, 3-1/2 oz. Santal-wood Soap.
Curd soap, 7 lbs. Otto of santal, 7 oz.     "     bergamot, 2 oz. Spermaceti Soap.
Curd soap, 14 lbs. Otto of bergamot, 2-1/2 lbs.     "     lemon, 1/2 lb. Citron Soap.
Curd soap, 6 lbs. Otto of citron, 3/4 lb.     "     verbena (lemon-grass), 1/2 oz.     "     bergamot, 4 oz.     "     lemon, 2 oz.

One of the best of fancy soaps that is made.

Frangipanne Soap.
Curd soap (previously colored light brown), 7 lbs. Civet, 1/4 oz. Otto of neroli, 1/2 oz.    "     santal, 1-1/2 oz.    "     rose, 1/4 oz.    "     vitivert, 1/2 oz.

Rub the civet with the various ottos, mix, and beat in the usual manner.

Patchouly Soap.
Curd soap, 4-1/2 lbs. Otto of patchouly, 1 oz.     "     santal, }     "      vitivert, } of each, 1/4 oz. Saponaceous Cream of Almonds.

The preparation sold under this title is a potash soft soap of lard. It has a beautiful pearly appearance, and has met with extensive demand as a shaving soap. Being also used in the manufacture of Emulsines, it is an article of no inconsiderable consumption by the perfumer. It is made thus:—

Clarified lard, 7 lbs. Potash of lye (containing 26 per cent. of caustic potash), 3-3/4 lbs. Rectified spirit, 3 oz. Otto of almonds, 2 drachms.

Manipulation.—Melt the lard in a porcelain vessel by a salt-water bath, or by a steam heat under 15 lbs. pressure; then run in the lye, very slowly, agitating the whole time; when about half the lye is in, the mixture begins to curdle; it will, however, become so firm that it cannot be stirred. The crême is then finished, but is not pearly; it will, however, assume that appearance by long trituration in a mortar, gradually adding the alcohol, in which has been dissolved the perfume.

Soap Powders.

These preparations are sold sometimes as a dentifrice and at others for shaving; they are made by reducing the soap into shavings by a plane, then thoroughly drying them in a warm situation, afterwards grinding in a mill, then perfuming with any otto desired.

Rypophagon Soap.
Best yellow soap, } Fig soft soap, } equal parts melted together.

Perfume with anise and citronella.

Ambrosial Cream.

Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream. The cream colored in this way has a blue tint; when it is required of a purple color we have merely to stain the white saponaceous cream with a mixture of vermilion and smalt to the shade desired. Perfume with otto of oringeat.

Transparent Soft Soap.
Solution caustic potash (Lond. Ph.), 6 lbs. Olive oil, 1 lb. Perfume to taste.

Before commencing to make the soap, reduce the potash lye to one half its bulk by continued boiling. Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream. After standing a few days, pour off the waste liquor.

Transparent Hard Soap.

Reduce the soap to shavings, and dry them as much as possible, then dissolve in alcohol, using as little spirit as will effect the solution, then color and perfume as desired, and cast the product in appropriate moulds; finally dry in a warm situation.

Until the Legislature allows spirit to be used for manufacturing purposes, free of duty, we cannot compete with our neighbors in this article.

Juniper Tar Soap.

This soap is made from the tar of the wood of the Juniperus communis, by dissolving it in a fixed vegetable oil, such as almond or olive oil, or in fine tallow, and forming a soap by means of a weak soda lye, after the customary manner. This yields a moderately firm and clear soap, which may be readily used by application to parts affected with eruptions at night, mixed with a little water, and carefully washed off the following morning. This soap has lately been much used for eruptive disorders, particularly on the Continent, and with varying degrees of success. It is thought that the efficient element in its composition is a rather less impure hydrocarburet than that known in Paris under the name huile de cade. On account of its ready miscibility with water,

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