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.