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11. Soap from Refuse Grease.— Another lady says: The best way 

 to iise up small lots of refuse grease, is to buy a box of concentrated lye (for 

 sale by all grocers) and follow the directions on the bos. Nothing can be 

 simpler, and we have never failed in getting the soap to come. 



Remarks. — This lady's instruction is sound common sense, and confirms 

 what I have said heretofore. A little judgment will enable any one to succeed, 

 by simply modifying, or changing, sometimes, to meet different conditions which 

 may arise, in not always being able to get just what is called for in one recipe, 

 by taking up another, the articles for which can be obtained. 



12. Pearline, Soapine, etc., to Make.— Tlie Scientific American, 

 which is one of our most reJiable papers, informs us that these articles are made 

 of powdered soap, and po\\»dered sal soda, equal, or about equal parts of each. 

 Thus you see for a few cents you can make what they ask much more for; and 

 it shows, too, what is thought by scientific men of sal soda as an aid in wash- 

 ing. 



13. Soap for Machine-Shop Men, Blacksmiths, Engineers, 

 Printers, Scouring, etc. — Take 10 lbs. of hard, yellow soap; sal soda, 3 

 lbs.; borax and tallow, each 1 lb.; fresh slacked lime, as below; soft water, 3 

 gals. Directions — Put the water, soda and borax into the kettle, and when 

 dissolved add the tallow and the soap, shaved fine; and when these are dissolved 

 stir in as much freshly slacked, sifted lime as you can stir in well. The lime is 

 to be sifted through a common kitchen sieve to avoid coarse lumps. 



Remarks. — The lime thus stirred in greatly helps its scouring and cleansing 

 properties; its roughness also helps greatly in washing hands covered with 

 grease, ink, etc. It makes a good washing soap without the lime, but that adds 

 more than half to its power of removing grease, ink, tar, etc., from the hands 

 of machinists, where iron is worn into the grease on journals and by filing, etc. 

 Without the lime it would make about 10 gals of splendid soft soap, if pre- 

 ferred in place of the hard; and in this case the tallow need not be put in. 



14. Medicated, or Sulphur and Tar Soaps, To Make.— So 

 much is being said about sulphur soap, in skin diseases and for toilet purposes, 

 it will be a satisfaction to many people, no doubt, to know that if you take a 1 

 lb. bar of any good, hard white soap, cut it fine and put it into a small jar and 

 set that into a basin or pan of water and set on the stove till the soap is melted, 

 then stir in, thoroughly, 1 oz. of the flour of sulphur and pour into a paper or 

 wooden box to cool, after which you can cut it into squares and dry it, and your 

 sulphur soap will be as good as any you buy. For the tar soap, do the same as 

 above, except stir in \i oz, of creosote, which is the same in action as tar — con- 

 tains the active principle of tar. No harm in combining them in one soap; the 

 combination would work very mildly on any irritable skin. 



Rem4irk». — Renovation, or general cleansing of clothes of all kinds, gloves, 

 boots, shoes, etc., very properly follows the foregoing soaps, washing fluids, etc. 



Renovation, Clothes Cleaning, etc.. Explanation of. — Renova- 

 tion is the art of making new after injury or partial decay— re-making, from 

 the Latin re, again, and novare, to make new. This word, then, may very 



