VEGETABLE BUTT K I: 



nut oil. It is still, however, occasionally found in some Roman 



diuretics, and iii Kmdaiid and elsewhere it is nmde into candles, 

 p.-ciallv iiightliglits. The latter use was a discover^ made by Messrs. 

 Price iV Co., who introduced candles made with coeoanut oil for public 

 iiniiiiation at the time of Queen Victoria's wedding; hut in ordinary 

 tulle-manufacture the oil has been somewhat displaced of late by 

 [Cf. Board of Trade Journ., Feb. 1898.] In Europe it in 

 ively employed, particularly in France, where pomades and other 

 cv toilet articles are produced in great quantity and variety. It is 

 utilised in the manufacture of salves and lotions of various kinds 

 d to adulterate cod-liver oil. It is considered an effective hair-restorer 

 d is universally soused all over India. The long, black, lustrous tresses 

 the Filipino women have been attributed to the use of this oil. [Cf. 

 'ides and I^eatker, June 25, 1904.] 



As regards the soap industry, cocoanut oil makes a white, hard soap, 

 ich is more readily soluble than almost any other in hard or even salt- 

 ter. The form known as " Marine Soap " may be used medicinally in 

 ter-making and in the preparation of soap liniment, but it has the dis- 

 vantage of imparting an unpleasant odour to garments or to the human 

 The Messrs. Lever's Sunlight Soap factories use a large amount of 

 oanut oil. A fair proportion of the Native-made soap of India is also 

 pared by boiling this oil with dhobie's earth, salt, saltpetre, quicklime 

 [ water. 



Vegetable Butter. The various methods and contrivances for pro- 

 fling vegetable butter cocoanut butter more especially may be said 

 have originated one of the many new aspects of value in this palm. Pure 

 oanut oil has for some time been used in part manufacture of margarine, 

 with advantage, since it supplies a certain amount of glyceryl salts, 

 of fairly low fatty acids, whose absence from ordinary margarine constitute 

 emically the principal difference between that product and butter. For 

 purpose the characteristic odour of the oil is removed by treatment 

 ith alcohol and animal charcoal. [Cf. Blount and Bloxam, I.e. 238.] But 

 far more important industry than the adulteration or fabrication of 

 .rgarine is the production of cocoanut butter (see Cacao Butter, p. 1076). 

 .e process of producing cocoanut butter or, as it was subsequently termed, 

 palmin," is said to have been discovered by a German professor, Dr. 

 hlinck, and developed by him at Ludwigshafen. He produced a pure 

 ;etable fat which for culinary and edible purposes was claimed to be 

 uch superior to butter, lard or tallow, all of which contain acids that 

 ough heat form undesirable products. [Cf. Ind. Agri., Sept. 17, 1887 ; 

 ew Bull., 1890, 230-8; Basu, in Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. Ind. (Proc.), 1890, 

 ., 62-3.] Dr. Therner, Second Physician of the Imperial Hospital, Vienna, 

 inted out (CentralblaU fur die gesammte Terapie, Oct. 1889) that a firm at 

 .annheim had also produced a cocoanut butter free of fatty acids, such as 

 as suited for persons of impaired digestion. [Cf. Journ. Board Trade, June 

 901.] The manufacture of these and such like butters was naturally very 

 quickly extended, and indeed Messrs. Loder & Nucoline, Ltd., of Silvertown, 

 ndon, claim to have preceded even the German firms in producing 

 nut butter and cocoanut suet, which they called " Nucoline " and 

 Vejsu." Their sales are now on a very large scale, so that their goods arc 

 coining daily into extended demand. " Vegetaline " is the name of the 

 product as now manufactured in Marseilles. More recently Messrs. Gaudart 



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cocos 



NUCIPERA 



Oil 



Candle*. 



r..in -I". 

 llair-oU. 



Soap. 



" Marine Soap.' 



Butter. 



Margarine. 



Cocoanut 

 Butter : 

 "Palinin." 



Free from Fatty 

 Adds. 



' Nucoline." 

 Vogetaline." 





