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Renovating Soap.
Marseilles (French) or Parker's best soap, such as used by barbers (I have seen Babbitt's common soap used, but the above was the original recipe), 1/4 lb.; alcohol, 1 oz.; beef's gall, 2 ozs.; saltpeter, borax, honey, sulphuric ether and spirits of turpentine, of each, 1/4 oz.; camphor gum, 3 drs.; pipe clay, 1 dr.; common salt, 1 small tea-spoonful. Directions—Put the camphor into the alcohol, the powdered pipe clay into the beef's gall, pulverize the saltpeter and borax and put them and the salt into the honey. After 2 or 3 hours slice the soap into a porcelain kettle, with the gall mixture, and place over a slow fire, stirring till melted; take off and let stand until a little cool; then add all the other articles, stir well together and put into a glass fruit jar as soon as possible, as it soon hardens; then screw on the top, to prevent the evaporation of the strength, keeping in a dark closet, ready for use, as light decomposes or injures it.
Remark). —Those desiring to engage in the business permanently can take double or four times these quantities, according to the amount of work they may expect to do.
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