Good Soap Making
Dear Aunt Daisy, I see in The Listener that "Just Soap," Marlborough, is having soap trouble. I had exactly the same trouble some years ago, finding that on cooling, the caustic soda and water were at the bottom of the copper and the fat, etc., was a crust on top. In desperation I rang a chemist friend, who told me that salt in the fat made no difference and that I had not put sufficient caustic soda in it. So I put in another half-pound of caustic to the other: ingredients, and boiled it up again, and the soap was beautiful. My recipe is 3 Ib. caustic, 34 Ib. resin, 4 lb. fat, 44% quarts water, 2 lb. borax, 1 cup of ammonia. I put all but the caustic and ammonia into the copper (using 12 lb. fat), bring to the boil and add the caustic a tablespoon at a time-it flares up but not as much as if you put everything in together and bring to the boil-then I add the ammonia last. I hope this will help other soap makers (keep for a month before using).
G.
R.
Kai Iwi.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 23
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195Good Soap Making New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 23
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