The fulling-stocks were a trough in which an enormous oaken hammer was made to pound up and down, while the cloth was kept thoroughly wet with warm soap and water, or fullers' earth and water.
This soft soap was used in the great monthly washings which, for a century after the settlement of the colonies, seem to have been the custom.
She dipped candles in the spring, and made soap in the autumn.
An old-time receipt says:-- "The great Difficulty in making Soap come is the want of Judgment of the Strength of the Lye.
A good smart worker could make a barrel of soap in a day, and have time to sit and rest in the afternoon and talk her luck over, before getting supper.
This latter was a trying and burdensome domestic duty, but the soft soap was important for home use.
A hard soapalso was made with the tallow of the bayberry, and was deemed especially desirable for toilet use.
The soft soap made by this process seemed like a clean jelly, and showed no trace of the repulsive grease that helped to form it.
Agnes brought the water and the soap and a hand-brush from the kitchen.
It is unwise to pick a sample that involves too much rapid speech, such as a foreign soap opera.
Before the political propagandist can get the public attention, he must edge his media past the soap operas, the soft drink advertisements, the bathing beauties advertising Pennsylvania crude or bright-leaf tobacco.
The tongue is also covered with hard soap and over that a layer of powdered sugar.
Ivy poison Wash at once with soap and water; using scrubbing brush.
Castile soap is pure soda soap, and the blueish or red mottled appearance is produced by stirring in some sulphate of iron (green vitriol); when new it is of a blueish color, but gets red by exposure to the air.
It is extracted from tallow by the following process:--The fat is first melted, then boiled with water and quick lime; the lime forms a solid insoluble soap with the stearic acid of the fat.
It is used in large quantities for the general purposes of washing and cleansing, and very extensively in bleaching and soap making.
The process consists in thoroughly beating the cloth with heavy wooden mallets or “stocks” for ten or twelve hours, it being at the same time wetted with soap and water, and folded into a mass of many layers.
Then wash him down with soap and tepid water, sponge off with cool water, rubbing the flesh and working the muscles vigorously the meanwhile.
Bathe the body daily in tepid water, being careful not to use soap that will irritate the skin.
Being all ready, the stick of rectal soap should be dipped in water--to moisten it--inserted in the rectum and withdrawn.
Never use common soap nor any of the highly perfumed varieties.
They added that the item of soap had been forgotten in their first estimate, and must now be included, at the rate of three pounds to every hundred pounds of rations.
The difficulties were finally overcome, and the train marched into Columbus at two o'clock, and went into camp at Soap Fork, having made a march of about ten miles, the march of five miles across the flats occupying about seven hours.
These Marseillaises make Marseillaise hymns and Marseilles vests and Marseilles soap for all the world, but they never sing their hymns or wear their vests or wash with their soap themselves.
They found a small piece of soap (we carry soap with us, now,) and I made them a present of it, seeing that they regarded it as a curiosity.
We are sufficiently civilized to carry our own combs and toothbrushes, but this thing of having to ring for soap every time we wash is new to us and not pleasant at all.
The English know how to travel comfortably, and they carry soap with them; other foreigners do not use the article.
Then the incipient assassin held a basin of water under my chin and slopped its contents over my face, and into my bosom, and down the back of my neck, with a mean pretense of washing away the soap and blood.
Even this fluent discharge of Italian did not bring the soap at once, but there was a good reason for it.
They can be used as a substitute for soap for washing linen.
The soap which issues therefrom is then rubbed in the hair at the time of bathing.
The cook protested that the soap had not been in the soup kettle, but must have fallen off the shelf over the window as the soldier held his tin cup through the opening to receive his soup.
He knows better than to give us soup withsoap in it.
This theory was gladly accepted by all but the trooper who had found the soap in his cup.
Soap suds," chorused the troopers who had been relieved from the terrible suspicion that they had been fed on soap also.
One day a company I boy found a piece of soapin his soup.
But then there’s the soap; I was thinking of making soap this week.
In addition to this, he had made a little wooden trough of cherry tree, that would hold about a quart, with a handle on one side, that was made out of the solid wood: this was to keep the soap in that was used about the sink.
The soap fell into the porridge while I was making it," she said.
Is soap in porridge any worse than tooth-powder in rusks, lovely creature?
If the soap falls into the porridge do not tell your guests about it until they have finished eating it because it might take away their appetite.
For soap our author gives a recipe which reminds one of Walton's quaint prescriptions and queer preparations.
Shaving soap should be made at home, it seems, and the mystery of its manufacture is here disclosed.
You just shave an' knock the soap off your ears an' that's all there is to it.
First off, you wet your face in the creek an' then soap it good.
That soap ain't regular shavin' soap, but it'll do.
Without a word the cowboy reached for a bar of soap that lay awash in the filthy water of a basin upon a bench beside the door, and jammed it down the man's throat.
I see, soap is not given gratis here in Paris, to boarders.
It should be scrubbed with soap and water if dirty or corroded before it is dropped into the boiling water.
After the parts are thoroughly scrubbed with this solution the soap should be removed with moist compresses and then the parts mopped with a solution of seventy per cent alcohol.
It is well to scrub the hands with the soap solution and then to follow with the use of the seventy per cent alcohol.
If the book is much soiled, or has mud stains, it may be advisable to use ivory soap and water with a few drops of ammonia, applied with a piece of cheesecloth well wrung out.
All of these cloths are said to be acid, alkali and germ proof, do not absorb grease and can be washed withsoap and water.
If water and soap have been used, it may be necessary to put a pressing tin under the leaf, placing blotting paper on each side.
The alkali present in the soap is useful in neutralising any mineral acids contained in the leather.
So Hank and Tuppy went off to prepare it, carefully laying thin parings of soap at the bottom.
Give me a bit ofsoap an' lead me to the kitchen sink an' I'll give meself a good sluice--what do you say?
There was a granite davenport, and a stone wash-stand without any soap or exit for the water, and some hardwood pegs drove into holes in the wall, and that was all.
It smells to me like soap factories and wet setter-dogs--oh, you mean the stew.
Dissolve the soap in boiling water, and add cold to make it just warm and of the required strength.
For washing embroidery special soap should be procured.
WELLS On Sunday morning, then he comes To church, and everybody smells The blacking and the toilet soap And camphor balls from Mr. Wells.
And when the little blacking smells And camphor balls and soap begin, I do not have to look to know That Mr. Wells is coming in.
Be sure before putting the quilt in that the soap is well melted, as otherwise it is apt to stick in lumps to the covering, whatever it may be.
Rinse well and continue in fresh waters until the soap is completely rinsed out.
