This section is from the book "The Corner Cupboard; Or, Facts For Everybody", by Robert Kemp Philp. Also available from Amazon: The Corner Cupboard; or Facts for Everybody.
Shaving Soap. Good white soap (in thin shavings), three pounds; palm soap, one pound; soft water, three quarters of a pound; soda, one ounce. Melt carefully over a slow fire, in an earthen vessel; then add oil of lavender sixty drops, oil of lemon forty drops; bergamot, fifty drops. Mix well and make it into forms.
 
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