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Example sentences for "soft soap"

  • Soft soap should be kept in a dry place in the cellar, and should not be used till three months old.

  • Put a pail or two of cold water into the kettle, and a large spoonful of soft soap--more if the kettle is a large one.

  • Soft soap, made with clean grease and good potash is of a light nankeen color, and is better for washing flannels and white clothes than any other.

  • If this is not to be had, soft soap, if it is of the best kind, is better than common bar soap.

  • Mix together a quarter of a pound of soft soap; a tea-spoonful of brandy; and a pint of whisky or gin; stirring them hard.

  • The emulsion to be made by dissolving half a pound of soft soap in a gallon of boiling water.

  • Or tobacco water and a solution of soft soap, together or separately, if carefully applied, speedily make an end of this troublesome pest.

  • Soft soap dissolved in water makes a cheap and effectual wash for exterminating all kinds of Aphis, and to these ingredients quassia may with advantage be added.

  • Soft soap is made with potash and drying oils, either alone or mixed with tallow, and other coarse fatty matters.

  • The designing institution learned to its surprise that the Comptroller could not stand too much "soft soap.

  • Oil and grease may be generally removed by spreading a paste made of soft soap, caustic potash lye, and fullers earth over the part, and allowing it to remain there for a few days; after which it must be washed off with clean water.

  • A cheaper and better plan is to substitute the 'soft soap' of the Ph.

  • In two months' time wash it off perfectly clean; then have ready a fine thick lather of soft soap, boiled in soft water; dip a brush in it, and scour the marble.

  • To prevent swallows building under eaves, or in window corners, rub the places with oil or soft soap.

  • For Mixture:--Boil slowly one pound of soft soap in two quarts of water to one quart.

  • A soap is sometimes made with lard and the above ingredients; or soft soap is combined with them; in either case to form a depilatory pommade.

  • The following is the process followed by respectable manufacturers of soft soap (savon vert, being naturally or artificially green,) upon the continent.

  • Thenard states the composition of soft soap at--potash 9.

  • The new improvement in soft soap is, if properly used, a saving of nearly half in quantity; and though something dearer than the hard, it reduces the expence of washing considerably.

  • Prepare a fine thick lather of soft soap, boiled in soft water; dip a brush in it, and scour the marble well with powder.

  • Boil slowly one pound of soft soap in two quarts of water, till reduced to one.

  • Then she looked at the keg that had held their precious store of soft soap.

  • Then he picked up the crock of soft soap.

  • But just as they reached the door the Indian caught sight of the crock of soft soap--dark, sticky, and strangely fascinating to him.

  • This very useful article is produced by a combination of tallow or oil with soda or potash; with soda, hard soap is formed; with potash, soft soap.

  • Soft soap is made in the same way, using potash instead of soda, and, generally, a large quantity of train-oil.

  • Linens are chiefly bleached by repeated boilings in solutions of potash or pearlash, and afterwards in chloride of lime; wool by soaking in warm water, exposing it to the vapour of sulphur, and finally washing in a solution of soft soap.

  • Pa was trying to explain how the book came to be there, when the minister and the deacons started out, and then I poured the two quart tin pail full of soft soap on the front step.

  • It is nothing to the way you can spread it with two quarts of soft soap.

  • Soft soap (65%) and oil of lavender in alcohol.

  • They are ointment-like mixtures containing starch or dextrin with glycerin, soft soap, petrolatum or lard mixed with some active medicinal agent.

  • This oil is used in soft soap-making, more particularly on the Continent.

  • Soft soap is representative of this class.


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