A Treatise on Soap-Making
A
TREATISE
ON
SOAP-MAKING:
containing,
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ALKALINE MATERIALS;
TEST FOR DISCOVERING THE PRESENCE
OF AN ALKALI, &c.;
with
Full Directions for Manufacturing
YELLOW, PURE, WHITE, AND PERFUMED
HARD SOAP:
also,
Complete Instructions for
THE MAKING OF GREEN OR SOFT SOAP:
With other Requisites necessary to finish the
SOAP-BOILER.
To which is added,
ABSTRACTS OF THE EXCISE LAWS RELATIVE
TO HARD AND SOFT SOAP-MAKERS.
BY A MANUFACTURER.
Permit not Poverty thy abodes t'invade:
Be gold expedient—study well thy trade.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know:
Make use of ev'ry friend— —and ev'ry foe.
Be niggards of advice on no pretence;
For the worst avarice is that of sense. POPE.
EDINBURGH :
printed by oliver & co. netherbow.
1807.
Entered in Stationers Hall.
CONTENTS.
Page - Address to the Reader
iii - Preface
vii - Treatise on hard and soft soap-making
13 - Different kinds of alkalis
16 - The two great divisions of salts
20 - Method of depriving them of their fixed air
21 - Alkaline salts for the use of the soap-boiler, how obtained.
ibid. - Kelp, how made, and what esteemed best
ibid. - Ditto, used as a manure, and for feeding cattle, hogs, &c.
22 - Ditto, the ashes of, used as salt for new cheese
23 - Barilla, where and how made
24 - Gazul, soza, and salicor, ditto
26 - Pot-ash, how prepared
29 - Process for detecting sand in alkaline materials
31 - Blue and white pearl ashes
33 - Russia and Muscovy ashes, Cashub ditto
34 - Marcoft ashes
35 - Preparation for setting a cave, or vat
37 - Setting ditto
39 - Test for discovering the presence of an alkali in any liquid substance
42 - Examination of leys, to discover their quality with regard to mildness or causticity
44 - Comparative strength betwixt one ley and another discovered
47 - Weight of spring water and strong soap-ley contrasted
49 - Concise and accurate method to ascertain the strength of soap-leys
ibid. - Only one alkaline principle in nature
51 - Excisemen become soap-boilers
52 - A charge for yellow soap
53 - Boiling and finishing ditto
55 - Palm oil used therein
57 - Charge for pure white soap, and process
58 - Finishing ditto
59 - To prepare the scent for perfumed or Windsor soap
63 - The weights and measures to be understood throughout the work
69 - Table for casting up the dip of a soap frame, from one inch to one hundred, &c.
71 - Examples of working the same by hot and cold area
72 - Glass hydrometer to ascertain the weight of leys
74 - A charge for 1st crown soft soap
76 - Proportions, and operation of making ditto
ibid. - A charge for 2d crown, and operation.
80 - A charge for common soft soap, with old soap returned
81 - General observations necessary to be attended to by the operator
83 - Experiment to ascertain the expence of white soap-making
87 - Calculation thereof
91 - Appendix
99 - Short dissertation on spoiled hard soap, cause and remedy
ibid. - Dr Black's method of preparing a soap-ley
107 - Abridgment of Excise Laws
113 - Allowance for spoiled soap, cuttings, &c.
113 - Ditto for hard soap (only) repealed
115 - Legal frames for hard soap
116 - Legal casks for soft soap
117 - Act to prevent making soap in secret places
118 - Who are not qualified to make soap, though making entry
119 - Act Geo. III., being the last general statute relating to hard soap, and comprehending most of the former laws applicable to that article
121
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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