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Soft Soap From Concentrated Lye.
To make soft soap with concentrated lye, take 1 lb. of it and dissolve it in 2 gallons of soft water; and, when it boils, add tallow, or clear grease, 4 lbs. Let it boil till it becomes clear; then add 2 gallons more of rain water. Mix well and set it by to cool; then take a cup of it, and add as much cold water as it will take, and still be as thick and ropy as you wish it, then add water in the same proportions to the whole. —Prairie Farmer.
9. Soft Soap for House Cleaning, Washing Clothes, etc. —It is well to have two or three strings to one's bow; hence I give one or two more soft soap recipes. This one I take from the Medical Brief, of St. Louis: Hard soap, 3 lbs.; sal soda, 1 lb.; aqua ammonia and spirits of turpentine, each 1 oz.; soft water, 3 gallons. Boil the water and dissolve in it the soap and soda; remove from the fire and stir in the others.
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