I

Benzol........... 500 parts

Benzine.......... 500 parts

Soap, best white,

shaved......... 5 parts

Water, warm, sufficient.

Dissolve the soap in the warm water, using from 50 to 60 parts. Mix the benzol and benzine, and add the soap solution, a little at a time, shaking up well after each addition. If the mixture is slow in emulsifying, add at one time from 50 to 100 parts of warm water, and shake violently. Set the emulsion aside for a few days, or until it separates,-then decant the superfluous water, and pour the residual pasty mass, after stirring it up well, into suitable boxes.

II

Soap spirit........   100 parts

Ammonia solution,

10 per cent......     25 parts

Acetic ether.......     15 parts

III

Extract of quillaia . 1 part

Borax............ 1 part

Ox gall, fresh..... 6 parts

Tallow soap......     15 parts

Triturate the quillaia and borax together, incorporate the ox gall, and, finally, add the tallow soap and mix thoroughly by kneading. The product is a plastic mass, which may be rolled into sticks or put up into boxes.