Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Home-Made Soap. [ARTICLE]

Home-Made Soap.

Good Housekeeblng. I have found a way in which I can make soap while waiting for the teakettle to boil for sapper. It is very easy. Get of a dpaggist or grooer a pound-bok of the pulverized lye now sold cheaply and in convenient shape. It will cost you fifteen cento. It comes In a neat can which oan be opened with any penknife. Dissolve this lye in three pints of cold water. The lye heats the water Gad you must wait till the heat paves off before making your soap. Melt your grease and strain Qthrough a oheese-cloth and weigh five and a half pounds. A soon as this melted grease is cool enough to bear your hand in pour grease and lye together and stir thoroughly a few minutes and you will see it thicken. Now pour into a box or dripping-pao lined with greased paper and let it stand in a warm place for twenty-four hours, then cut into bars. It wiH be ready for immediate use, will keep growing clean and thert>ugh\y satisfactory for dishwashing nndthe laundry, makes a good suds add is economical, having cost you’only fifteen cents, the price of your lye, as the grease was saved at odd times. It oan be made without fire, as you see it ddee not have to be boiled or even have boiling water added. Our laundress uses it and says “It is good,” and she Is apt to be critical.