TO MAKE SOAP FOR SHEEPWASHING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3104, 9 June 1881, Page 4

TO MAKE SOAP FOR SHEEPWASHING.

For soft coap, dissolve 101b crude potash in two pails of hot water, and add 101b of clear grease. Boil until the grease is well cut, then put into the barrel. Add a pail of boiling water every clay and stir thoroughly until it is of the right consistency.

For hard soap, slake ?lb lime in 1 gallon of boiling soft water. Add lib of washing soda and 3 gallons of boiling soft water. Boil together 15min., then let it settle, and pour off the clear liquid, replacing it with 2 gallons more of boiling soft water. Put 6lb of clean fat into the clear solution, and boil it for two hours ; drain the second water from the lime and soda, and add it by degrees when there is a danger of the moisture boiling over. It should be, when done, of the consistency of honey. Try a little by cooling in a saucer, and when thick enough, put in a teacivpful o£ salt and turn it into a wet tub. When firm cut it into bars and place on a board to dry slowly. Rapid drying will cause it to crack. The above will make about 401b of good soap. It should not bo used for two or three months.