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Bark Shanty Soap, or 'Washing Made Easy.2
it; then dirty places are soaped with this before boiling; 15 or 20 minutes will be long enough to boil them, and slight rubbing of soiled places will be all that is needed, rinsing, bluing, etc., as usual. This amount of soap will do four times as much washing as the bar soap would have done by itself, and that, even if the money paid for the soda and the lime, which ought not to be above 15 or 20 cents, at most, had been added to the purchase of bar soap. The lime, especially, costs a mere nothing, but adds greatly, as well as the soda, to the detergent or cleansing properties of the soap. I call this '' Bark Shanty Soap, " from the name of the place where we lived one season, and where I obtained this recipe. It is on the shore of Lake Huron, 31 miles above Port Huron, where the timber is chiefly pine, and hence the ashes were not good for making soap; we, therefore, had to get the best substitute we could, and this being in use there, we soon learned its value, and will only add that although it will be found a great help and saving to those living in shanties, yet it will also be just as satisfactory to those living in cities, if they will give it a trial. It makes a half-solid soap very convenient to use.
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