Toilet bars
Toilet soap fat group II (tallow and tallow-oil)
This one names a fat the database does not carry yet, so the numbers below are not computed. The fats a recipe wants and we lack are what decides which ones get added next.
The oils
| Oil | As the source prints it | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Edible Tallow (beef/mutton dripping) | Tallow · 225 lb | 37.5 % |
| Tallow-oil · not in the database yet | 225 lb | 37.5 % |
| Coconut Oil | Cocoa-nut oil · 150 lb | 25.0 % |
How it is made
| Process | Full-boiled |
| Alkali | ley in three strengths, 18°, 24° and 30° B., 750–775 lb in total per 600 lb of fat · 762.5 lb |
| Superfat | Not stated |
| Water | as the source states it |
This is a boiled soap. A kettle soap has its excess alkali salted out and drawn off before framing, so the recipe states the alkali charged, never the alkali the bar keeps. Read as a modern cold-process recipe it would be lye-heavy.
What the numbers say
This one cannot be computed yet: it names Tallow-oil, which the ingredient database does not carry.
The source
Alexander Watt, The Art of Soap-Making: A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Hard and Soft Soaps, Toilet Soaps, Etc., Crosby Lockwood and Co., London, 1884, p.135. The Art of Soap-Making: A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Hard and Soft Soaps, Toilet Soaps, Etc. · read 2026-09-22
Read from the Internet Archive OCR of the Cornell University Library copy. Page numbers are taken from OCR'd running headers and may be one out where the header digits were damaged.
Read from a scan rather than a proofread transcription, so the figures are checked against the book’s own printed total where it prints one.