| Curd soap, | 7 lbs. | |
| Marine soap, | 7 lbs. | |
| Sifted silver sand, | 28 lbs. | |
| Otto of thyme, | } | |
| " cassia, | } | |
| " caraway, | } each, | 2 oz. |
| " French lavender, | } |
Fuller's Earth Soap.
| Curd soap, | 10-1/2 lbs. |
| Marine soap, | 3-1/2 lbs. |
| Fuller's earth (baked), | 14 lbs. |
| Otto of French lavender, | 2 oz. |
| " origanum, | 1 oz. |
The above forms are indicative of the method adopted for perfuming soaps while hot or melted.
All the very highly scented soaps are, however, perfumed cold, in order to avoid the loss of scent, 20 per cent. of perfume being evaporated by the hot process.
The variously named soaps, from the sublime "Sultana" to the ridiculous "Turtle's Marrow," we cannot of course be expected to notice; the reader may, however, rest assured that he has lost nothing by their omission.
The receipts given produce only the finest quality of the article named. Where cheap soaps are required, not much acumen is necessary to discern that by omitting the expensive perfumes, or lessening the quantity, the object desired is attained. Still lower qualities of scented soap are made by using greater proportions of yellow soap, and employing a very common curd, omitting the oil soap altogether.
Scenting Soaps hot.
In the previous remarks, the methods explained of scenting soap involved the necessity of melting it. The high temperature of the soap under these circumstances involves the obvious loss of a great deal of perfume by evaporation. With very highly scented soaps, and with perfume of an expensive character, the loss of ottos is too great to be borne in a commercial sense; hence the adoption of the plan of