Windsor Soap.—This is a trade term which denotes merely a pure white soap, the base of which is 10 parts of any pure animal fat, as rec tified suet or lard, and about 1 part of olive oil or bleached palm oil, to which are added any perfume, as the essential oil of bergamot.
Almond Soap.—Almond oil may be saponified with caustic soda by a process similar to that of making other hard soaps. About 11 pounds of caustic soda will be required to saponify 7 pounds of almond oil. Mix the soda, lye, and almond oil gradually, boiling hot. Boil and stir until saponification is complete, add ing more oil or lye as may be neces sary.
Or melt fine, pure, hard white soap, and add the essence of bitter almonds in the proportion of per cent by weight.
Borax Soap.—Dissolve 3 ounces of borax in 9 quarts of boiling water. Shave 9 pounds of pure white hard soap and add to the solution. Stir and simmer with gentle heat until the ingredients are thoroughly melted and mixed. When cold the soap is ready for use.
Soap from Corn Meal or Oatmeal. —Both of these articles are useful for the toilet, having the property of making the skin smooth, soft, and white. In summer mix 9 teacupfuls of corn meal with 1 tablespoonful of powdered borax, and use as a cleans ing agent.
Or shave 12 ounces of neutral white hard soap, add enough water to keep it from burning, and melt with gentle heat. Stir in 4 ounces of cornstarch, and perfume according to taste.
Or melt together 12 ounces of hard white soap, 5 ounces of palm soap, and 3 ounces of cocoanut oil or ma rine soap; add 3 ounces of oatmeal or wheat bran. These ingredients should be incorporated with gentle heat in a double boiler. The soap will be improved if the mixture is thoroughly beaten with an egg beater to make a complete emulsion after it has been removed from the fire. Ready for use when cold and dry.
Or cut fine 1 pound of castile or other hard white soap, add enough water to prevent it from burning, and melt with gentle heat. Stir while melting to form a thick, smooth paste of the consistency desired. Put this in a bowl to cool. Perfume with arty essential oil or perfumed water, incorporating the perfume with an egg beater. Now stir in Indian meal until the paste thickens. This must be kept in a fruit jar or other cov ered glass vessel, as it will spoil if exposed to the air.
Soft Soap for the Toilet.—A liquid soap may be made for the toilet of sweet oil saponified with caustic pot ash. Take of the sweet oil 7 parts; caustic potash, 1 part. Put these in gredients in a double boiler with et. small quantity of rose water or other perfumed water. Beat the mixture with a spoon or an egg beater until a complete emulsion forms, and sim mer until saponification takes place. Now add sufficient rose water to re duce the mixture to any desired con sistency.
Marine or Salt-water Soap.—Dis solve 8 ounces of caustic soda in 3 quarts of boiling water to form a lye. Now melt with gentle heat 30
ounces of cocoanut oil or cocoanut lard. Gradually add the lye, stir ring constantly until saponification takes place. One ounce of fused Glauber's salts will cause the soap to harden.
Camphor Soap.—Dissolve in a dou ble boiler 1 pound of neutral hard white soap in 8 fluid ounces of boil ing water. Continue boiling until by evaporation the soap has the consist ency of butter. Now add 6 fluid ounces of olive oil in which 1 dram of prepared camphor has been pre viously mingled. Take the mixture from the stove and beat up with an egg beater until a complete emulsion forms. This is a valuable remedy for chaps and scratches.
Citron Soap.—To 6 pounds of curd soap add I pound of attar citron, ounce of verbena (lemon grass), 4 ounces of attar bergamot, and 2 ounces of attar lemon.
Frangipani Soap.—To 7 pounds of light-brown curd soap add + ounce of civet, I ounce of attar neroli, ounces of attar santal, ounce of at tar rose, and ounce of attar viti vert.
Cinnamon Soap.—Add 2 ounces of palm-oil soap to 3 ounces of tallow soap, ounce of water, 7 ounces of essence cinnamon, 2 ounces of essence bergamot, and 1 ounce of essence sas safras. Stir in enough yellow ocher to color as desired.
Sandalwood Soap.—To 7 pounds of curd soap, add 2 ounces of attar bergamot and 7 ounces of attar san tal.
Sand Soap.—To 7 pounds of curd soap, acid 7 pounds of marine soap, 25 pounds of silver sand, 2 ounces of attar thyme, 2 ounces of attar cassia, 2 ounces of attar caraway, and 2 ounces of attar French lavender.
Soap a la Rose.—Take 30 pounds of castile soap, and add 20 pounds of tallow soap, sufficient water to melt, 3 ounces of attar rose, 1 ounce of es sence cinnamon, 2/ ounces of essence bergamot, ounces of vermilion, and 1 ounce of essence doves.
Musk Soap.—Add 26 pounds of palm-oil soap to 30 pounds of tallow soap, 4 ounces of essence bergamot, 5 ounces of powdered pale roses, 31 ounces of musk, and 4i ounces of brown ocher.
Tonquin Soap.—Take 5 pounds of light-brown curd soap and 1 ounce of attar bergamot, and add + ounce of grain musk and 8 ounces of es sence cloves.
Wash Balls.—Any good toilet soap may be made into balls of any de sired size by a process similar to making butter balls, i. e., by using two wooden paddles. The addition of starch helps to give the soap the right consistency.
Melt 7 pounds of neutral white bar soap in distilled water or rose water sufficient to prevent burning. Add 1 ounce of powdered starch and more water, if necessary, to form a stiff paste. If too much water is added, continue the heat until the excess of water evaporates. Stir in 8 ounces of powdered wheat starch or corn starch, and add essence of almonds according to taste. Remove from the fire, thoroughly incorporate the materials with an egg beater, mix or knead with the hands, and make into balls of any desired size.