Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — New Process for Washing Linen. [ARTICLE]

New Process for Washing Linen.

An English magazine says: In Germany and Belgium a substitute has latterly been introduced for soda in the laundry, which, while it has all the detersive qualities of soda, does no injury to the linen. Two pounds of soap are dissolved in about five gallons of water as hot as the hand can bear. To this are added one tablespoonful of oil of turpentine and three of liquid ammonia. This mixture is then well stirred, and in it the clothes are steeped for three hours, the washtnb being covered up as carefully as possible. Next, the clothes are washed, rinsed and blued as usual. The mixture will serve a second time, only it must be re-heat-ed and one-half spoonful of oil of turpentine and one and one-lialf of ammonia added to it. This process economizes time, labor and fuel. The clothes are not injured, because the ammonia evaporates very quickly; and as for the smell of the turpentine, that disappears in the drying.