Make a thick paste, roll into sheets, and cut into tablets. The balls in bulk can be obtained only in large packages of the manufacturers, say barrels of 200 pounds; but put up in 1-pound boxes they can be bought in cases as small as 28 pounds.
Laundry Blue Tablets.—
| Ultramarine | 6 ounces |
| Sodium carbonate | 4 ounces |
| Glucose | 1 ounce |
| Water, a sufficient quantity. |
Make a thick paste, roll into sheets, and cut into tablets.
Polishes Or Glazes For Laundry Work.
Laundry Gloss Dressing.—
II.—Dissolve white wax, 5.0 parts, in ether, 20.5 parts, and add spirit, 75.0 parts. Shake before use.
Heat until melted, in a pot, 1,000 parts {445} of wax and 1,000 parts of stearine, as well as a few drops of an essential oil. To the hot liquid add with careful stirring 250 parts of ammonia lye of 10 per cent, whereby a thick, soft mass results immediately. Upon further heating same turns thin again, whereupon it is diluted with 20,000 parts of boiling water, mixed with 100 parts of starch and poured into molds.
Starches.
Most laundry starches now contain some polishing mixture for giving a high luster.