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Soap DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Hard Soap. Empty the contents of this can of Potash into a kettle with one quart of cold water, stir it with a spoon or stick, the Lye will dissolve immediately and become quite hot, allow it to cool. Now take 6 pounds of clean Grease, Tallow, or Lard. Melt it until luke warm; them commence pouring the cold Lye into the melted grease gradually in a small stream until it is thoroughly mixed, and drops from the stirrer the thickness of honey. To be properly done, the stiring should be continued for 10 minutes. It is then ready to pour into any mould. Soft Soap. To one pound of Potash, add 3 gallons of water; boil the Potash until it is all dissolved. Then add 6 pounds of any kind of Soap-grease--the cleaner the better--to the lye, and set it to boiling. It usually becomes soap after boiling from 1 to 15 minutes. Let it boil slow so that it will not boil over. The best way to ascertain whether it is soap or not, is to take out of kettle about half pint of its contents, and mix as much water with it, and if it is soap, it will be ropy and stringy; then add 9 gallons of water and stir well together. When cool it will be a beautiful white soap, if the grease was clean. Potash or Lye, MANUFACTURED AT Babbitts-1 lb. can Hard soap. Before adding the lye, put into the warm grease about 1/2 lb powdered borax (no more than 1/2 lb.) & 5 cts worth of oil of Sassafrass. stir in well. then put in lye & go on as directed. This make soap softer for hands. From Mrs. Van Buskirk
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Soap DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Hard Soap. Empty the contents of this can of Potash into a kettle with one quart of cold water, stir it with a spoon or stick, the Lye will dissolve immediately and become quite hot, allow it to cool. Now take 6 pounds of clean Grease, Tallow, or Lard. Melt it until luke warm; them commence pouring the cold Lye into the melted grease gradually in a small stream until it is thoroughly mixed, and drops from the stirrer the thickness of honey. To be properly done, the stiring should be continued for 10 minutes. It is then ready to pour into any mould. Soft Soap. To one pound of Potash, add 3 gallons of water; boil the Potash until it is all dissolved. Then add 6 pounds of any kind of Soap-grease--the cleaner the better--to the lye, and set it to boiling. It usually becomes soap after boiling from 1 to 15 minutes. Let it boil slow so that it will not boil over. The best way to ascertain whether it is soap or not, is to take out of kettle about half pint of its contents, and mix as much water with it, and if it is soap, it will be ropy and stringy; then add 9 gallons of water and stir well together. When cool it will be a beautiful white soap, if the grease was clean. Potash or Lye, MANUFACTURED AT Babbitts-1 lb. can Hard soap. Before adding the lye, put into the warm grease about 1/2 lb powdered borax (no more than 1/2 lb.) & 5 cts worth of oil of Sassafrass. stir in well. then put in lye & go on as directed. This make soap softer for hands. From Mrs. Van Buskirk
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