Windsor soap

Boee So p. — Orange-flower Soap. Cinnamon Soap. —- Musk Soap. —Bitter Almond Soap. — Windsor Soap.—Brown Windflor Soap. — Violet Windior Soap —Savon an Bonqnet,—Savon i la Cannelle. —Almond-oil Soap.—HarAmallow Soap.—Tanilla Soap.—Benzoin Soap,... 

Windsor Soap.—This famous toilet soap, as prepared in London, is generally made from tallow nine parts and olive-oil one part, and is perfumed (for eveiy 1,000 Iba of the paste) with... 

Brown Windsor Soap is prepared as above, and coloured either with burnt sugar (caramel) or umher. 

Windsor Soap is also made from lard in the some way as olive-oil soap, and the perfumes—oils of caraway, lavender, and rosemary—are added so soon as the soap has acquired the proper degree of firmness. 

Violet Windsor Soap is made om lard, 50 parts palm-oil, 33 parts and spermaceti, 17 parts and the perfume employed is essence of Portugal, to which a Utile oil of cloves is added- The well-known violet odour of the palm-oil, modified by the perfumes, gives au agreeable fragrance to the soap. 

Weise s Formula for Windsor Soap.— Tallow 40 lbs. and olive oil 15 to 20 lbs., are saponified with soda ley of 19° B. the soap next treated with a ley of 15 B., and lastly with a ley of 20°, and the operation is conducted as for curd soap, but no excess of alkali must be used. When boiled clear, the soap is left in the pan for six or eight hours it is next completely separated from the ley, and is then placed in a flat mould, and pressed until it no longer exhibits any fl.ux, to prevent it from mottling. To the above proportions the following perfumes are added — Oil of cumin, 10 oz. oil of bergamot, 6 oz. oil of lavender, 3 oz. oil of origanum, 1 oz., and oil of thyme, 3 oz. 

Other constituents of the oil are cinnamyl acetate and cinnamic jacid. This oil gives the characteristic odour to Brown Windsor soap, and is useful for sweetening coal-tar medicated soaps. 

Caraway,—The seeds of this plant—carum carui— yield, by distillation, the oil of caraway, much used for perfuming soaps, and particularly that kind known as old Windsor. It also enters into the composition of cheap essences. The seeds, in a ground state, are employed in certain sachet powders. 

In the second place, I also succeeded with the soap of Windsor and glycerin of Price but I must say that this soap, like the majority of other toilet sotqrs, presents a serious disadvantage when one dissolves it in distilled water, the solution forms, in the cold, a gelatinous mass. I however came, after many trials, to use it for the preparation but the process is too complicated to indicate it here, and I mention the use of this soap only to show the possibility of obtaining a good liquid with soaps other than that of Marseilles. 

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