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Soft Soap for Washing and House Cleaning. 2
Remarks. —It this is thus good, where the lime can be got, will not the following be considerably better?—I think so.
3. Hard Soap, Fifteen or Twenty Pounds from Seven. —Take 7 lbs. of good hard soap; cut it in thin slices; sal soda, 2 lbs.; unslacked (that is stone) lime, 1 lb.; alum, 1 oz.; borax, 2 ozs.; benzine, 1 oz.; soft water, 2 gals. Directions—Put the sal soda and lime into a dish and pour over them the water, boiling hot, (what is better, is to use a kettle which you can boil these in till the soda is dissolved and the lime all slacked), stirring well a few times, and let settle; then (or in the morning, if done over night, ) pour off the clear solution into the kettle containing the slices of soap, put on the fire and let it remain until the soap is dissolved; then, having dissolved the alum and borax In a little water, pour them in just as the soap comes off of the fire; and when a
little cool put in the benzine stirring well, and when it gets perfectly cold it will be hard, and can be cut in pieces to dry.
Remarks. —I have this from a Mrs. Baldwin, who has done a great deal of washing in her life, at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, and who has used this soap and knows its value, and hence recommends it very highly.
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