This Soap Floats
Dear Aunt Daisy, I see in The Listener that "Just Soap," Marlborough, is having trouble with her soap-making. I have had the
same trouble on several occasions, and have now solved the problem. I add up to a pound or mofe of fat, and every time it has then come up to the proper soap mixture. Boil again after adding the extra fat, though. My recipe is 6 lb. fat, 14 oz. resin, 1% 1b. borax, 1 Ib. caustic soda, 12 pints water and 1 large packet of soap flakes to be added after it is cooked. The caustic, fat, resin and borax and 11 pints of water are brought to the boil; then the other pint of water is added and the soap is then boiled hard until cooked. Now the flakes are added and beaten in well. This is a lovely household soap and actually floats in thé water when in usé.
‘Mrs.
W.H.
H.
Te Aroha.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 32
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162This Soap Floats New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 32
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