Directions for Making Good & Common Soap (1895)

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Common Soap

1. Put the caustic soad in the water and add the fat. Boil.

2. To make caustic soap add 1 lb. of resin.

1. Boil the grease and pour hot on the potash.

2. Dissolve the borax and resin in two buckets of hot water.

3. Pour on top of grease, stir, and let stand till next day.

Source: Women’s Column. (1895, February 8). Weekly Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1894 – 1898), p. 3.