THE ART OF SOAP-MAKING A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK oF THE MANUFAOTURE OF HARD AND SOFT SOAPS, TOILET SOAPS, ETO., INOLUDING AN APPENDIX OF MODERN OANDLE-MAKING By ALEXANDER WATT AUTHOR OF “ ELECTRU-MRTALLUNGY PRACTIOALLT x EREATID,” “rm aRt Ov LEATHER MANUFACTURE,” BT. BLith Pumreraug Mlustrations THIRTEENTH IMPRESSION LONDON THE TECHNICAL PRESS LTD. LATE OF AVE MARIA LANE, LUDGATE HILL . GLOUCESTER ROAD, KINGSTON HILL, SURREY 1946‘The paper and binding of this book conform to the authorized economy standard, A SELECTION OF TECHNICAL PRESS PUBLICATIONS DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS DECORATING AND RENOVATING STEEL BRICKY 34 BOOF CARPENTRY BULDER'S CALCULATOR TOLDING PROCEDURE CEMENTS, GLUES AND GUMS AERO AND AUTO ENGINES MAGNETO MANUAL ELECTRIC TESTING ELECTRIC DIAGRAM MODELS - MECHANIC'S WORKSHOP BATTERY BOOK PRESS TOOL MAKING ENGINEERING DICTIONARY ENG. WORKSHOP MANUAL RESHOP PRACTICE METAL WORK BOILERMAKERS’ ASSISTANT PORTUGUESE DICTIONARY SPANISH GRAMMAR BRASS FOUNDER’S MANUAL If GREAT BRITAIN BY Hammond Dawes Warren Draper Walker Collin; Smit Bitmend standge Teogmea ‘Cross Longman Hlasluck Cross PROVrED ‘WILLUM CLOWBE AND 808, LIMIZRD, LONDON AND BECOLES,PREFACE, —_—— In compiling this book, the Author has endeavoured to fll a void in Englieh technical literature, While almost every art is represented by treatises or handbooks of a more or Jess practical character, Soap-making, so far as the Author is aware, has not until the present time bean furnished with a special book of reference for the con- venience of its numerous followers. In the United States, however, several elaborate treatises of foreign origin have appeared, and to these the author has been indebted for much valuable information, especially as regarda the Continental methods of making ordinary soaps and toilet soaps, given by Dussauce, Oristiani, Ott, and Kiirten. An important feature in the present volume is the chapter on the Recovery of Glycerine from Waste Leys, in which many processes for recovering this valuable product are given. Although it would not have been possible nor even desirable to include every known process of soap-making, a great number of processes in an abridged form are given, which cannot fail to be useful to the manufacturer. To write an original work upon an art which has been