Soap:
Articles from Civil War Era Newspapers
COLUMBUS [GA]
ENQUIRER, April 10, 1860, p. 3, c. 7
Soap for cleaning silver; Fancy Soaps; . . . at
Geo. W. Atkinson & Co's.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
August 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 3-4
Fashion
Letter.
Correspondence of the Mercury.
New York, August 7.
Great Eastern Experience--Particulars of the Voyage-- . . .
There were two windows or port-holes, making shawls and cloaks decidedly
necessary. Mirrors, toilette table,
sofa, abundance of fresh clean water and a peerless stewardess, to say nothing
of "Old Brown Windsor Soap," and fine damask towels, which being
already provided, did not occasion any extra cash.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
August 27, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
Important
to the Ladies!
Fresh Stock of
Lubin's Perfumeries!
And Choice Imported
Toilet Articles, comprising
Highly Scented Soaps . . .
All of which having been purchased for Cash will be sold at reasonable prices by
Van. Schaack & Grierson, Chemists and Druggists, and Importers of Perfumery,
Toilet Articles, &c.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 19, 1861, p. 3, c. 4
Soap--200 boxes Proctor & Gamble's Soap, received and for sale by Ray &
Grant, Natchez Landing.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, August 14, 1861, p. 2,
c. 3
Fancy
Toilet Soaps
Jocky [sic] Club, New-mown Hay, Musk, Honey, Millefleur, Ess. Bouquet,
Butterfly Bouquet, &c., &c.
For sale by
John B. Habersham,
Broughton st. op. St. Andrew's Hall.
MOBILE REGISTER AND
ADVERTISER, August 20, 1861, p. 1, c. 7
The Virtues of Borax.--The washer women of Holland and Belgium, so
proverbially clean, and who get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined
borax as washing powder, instead of soda, in the proportion of a large handful
of borax powder to about ten gallons of boiling water; they save in soap nearly
half. All the large washing
establishments adopt the same mode. For
laces, cambrics, etc., an extra quantity of the powder is used, and for
crinolines, (required to be made stiff,) a strong solution is necessary.
Borax being a neutral salt, does not in the slightest degree injure the
texture of the linen; its effect is to soften the hardest water, and therefore
it should be kept on every toilet table. To
the taste it is rather sweet, is used for cleaning the hair, is an excellent
dentifrice, and in hot countries is used in combination with tartaric acid and
bicarbonate of soda as a cooling beverage.
Good tea cannot be made with hard water; all water may be made soft by
adding a teaspoonful of borax powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water, in
which it should boil. The saving in
the quantity of tea used will be at least one-fifth.
SOUTHERN
CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], August 30, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
The Virtues of Borax.--The washer women of Holland and Belgium, so
proverbially clean, and who get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined
borax as washing powder, instead of soda, in the proportion of a large handful
of borax powder to about ten gallons of boiling water; they save in soap nearly
half. All the large washing
establishments adopt the same mode. For
laces, cambrics, etc., an extra quantity of the powder is used, and for
crinolines, (required to be made stiff,) a strong solution is necessary. Borax being a neutral salt, does not in the slightest degree
injure the texture of the linen; its effect is to soften the hardest water, and
therefore it should be kept on every toilet table. To the taste it is rather sweet, is used for cleaning the
hair, is an excellent dentifrice, and in hot countries is used in combination
with tartaric acid and bicarbonate of soda as a cooling beverage.
Good tea cannot be made with hard water; all water may be made soft by
adding a teaspoonful of borax powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water, in
which it should boil. The saving in the quantity of tea used will be at least
one-fifth.
MOBILE REGISTER AND
ADVERTISER, September 29, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Save
Your Ashes.
As Soda Ashes cannot be
had any more we have to make a substitute.
If you are willing to save your hard wood Ashes, we will buy it to be able to
sell you good Soap at fair prices.
Look out for the Black Boy's halooing ASHES, ASHES, ASHES.
J. J. Picard & Co., Soap Manufacturers.
Corner st. Frances and Hamilton sts.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, October 15, 1861, p. 2, c. 3
Cross
& Blackwell's
Chow-Chow Pickles,
Low's Brown Windsor Soap,
Cannon's.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], October
16, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
"How Are You Off for Soap?"--This is a momentous question just
at present. Soap is an
indispensable article in every well-regulated household, and its scarcity has
carried the price up beyond all precedent.
Bar soap we are told is now selling in this city at 20 cents per lb. by
the box. This is altogether too high--and the remedy should be applied
at once. We hope the report is true
which we hear on the streets, that a soap and candle factory is soon to be
established in Augusta. The latter
is an essential almost as the former, and any scheme which will tend to increase
our stock should meet with cordial encouragement. Now is the time, if ever, to establish manufactories here for
these and other necessaries, for which we have heretofore depended on the north.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], October
26, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
Soap and Candles.--A writer in the Charleston Courier says:
We have been so long dependent on our Yankee enemies for supplies of the
above named articles of universal use, that we have forgotten that we can make
them ourselves. To our shame we
admit that, even on our plantations in the low country and seaboard, abounding
in materials for making the best candles in the world, millions of pounds have
been annually permitted to mature and decay unused.
The low bush myrtle, indigenous to our coast from Virginia, ad libitum,
South, the berries of which are now mature, will afford a supply of wax, that,
with the addition of one-third tallow, will furnish candles sufficient to light
every house in the Confederacy, for the next year, and put a stopper on the
exorbitant extortion now practiced on the people for that article.
So, also, on every plantation, nay, in almost every kitchen, the monthly
waste of ashes and grease, with the addition of a little lime and salt, and the
labor of one person for one day, will make soap enough to cleanse every man,
woman and child, and their clothing. Now,
why should we any longer pay thirty cents a pound for soap and sixty cents for
candles? I for one will not.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], November 14, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
Castile Soap.
A superior article of Castile Soap, part of the cargo
of steamer Theodora, from Cuba, just received.
nov14-3t
Chichester & Co.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
November 19, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
Drugs, Chemicals, &c.
10,000 lbs Castile Soap, Genuine. . . .
With a good assortment of soaps, brushes and fine perfumery, for sale by
Stevenson & Co., 23 Hayne-street.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], November
20, 1861, p. 3, c. 1
A large supply of soap may be extracted from every cornfield at this
season of the year. While a
thousand pounds of oak wood yield only two and a half-pounds of potash, a
thousand pounds of corn stalks will yield seventeen pounds of potash, and soap
is made out of potash. A thousand
pounds of oak leaves, burnt to ashes, will yield twenty-four pounds of potash,
and soap may be made out of potash.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], November
28, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
The manner of making potash in the most perfect way is this:
a quantity of vegetable matter is burnt into gray ashes, and the ashes
boiled in water, so as to make a very strong lixivium or ley [lye]; after which,
the ley [lye], being previously strained, is evaporated over a quick fire almost
to dryness, the matter remaining is put into an iron crucible, melted, and then
poured on an iron plate, where, when cool, it appears in the form of a solid
lump of potash.
To Make Soap.--Take 18 pounds grease, 15 pounds potash or equivalent in
ley [lye], pour on it 5 gallons water, boiling, stir it occasionally every day,
after three days it will be fit for use, put it in a barrel.
Increase quantities in proportion, if vessel or barrel will hold
it.--Mobile Tribune.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], December
15, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Cotton Seed for Soap.--It is said that cotton seed oil is equal, of not
superior, to the ordinary refuse grease for soap.
The process is so simple that any housewife may with little trouble, make
the experiment. Put as much cotton
seed into a large strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed with a
pestle, crush or mash them well; then boil in strong lye, and proceed as in the
usual way. As grease may be scarce
next year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the grease is
exhausted.--Home Journal.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, December 16, 1861, p. 1,
c. 5
Cotton Seed for Soap.—It is said that cotton seed oil is equal, if not
superior, to the ordinary refuse grease for soap.
The process is so simple that any housewife may with little trouble make
the experiment. Put as much cotton
seed into a large strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed with a
pestle, crush or mash them well; then boil in strong lye, and proceed as in the
usual way. As grease may be scarce
next year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the grease is
exhausted.—Home Journal.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Cotton Seed for Soap.—It is said that cotton seed oil is equal, of not
superior to the ordinary refuse-greese [sic] for soap.
The process is so simple that any housewife may, with little trouble,
make the experiment. Put as much
cotton seed into a large strong iron pot, or wooden mortar, as can be mashed
with a pestle, crush or mash them well; then boil in strong lye, and proceed as
in the usual way. As greese [sic]
may be scarce next year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the
greese [sic] is exhausted.
[Home Journal.
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, January 23, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
For Chapped Hands
Use the
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
Cocoaine Soap,
For all roughness and exfalliations [sic] of the Skin.
Nothing equals it, and for producing an abundant pasty lather it is
guarranteed [sic] equal to the best English or French Soaps.
Put up in boxes containing three cakes at 35 and 50 cents per box.
We also offer over 100 different varieties of English, French and
American Soaps of the best makes.
Smith & Dwyer,
Druggists and Chemists,
Opposite the Tremont House.
SOUTHERN WATCHMAN [ATHENS, GA], February 5, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
New Goods!
Just
received and for sale---. . . Soaps, in great varieties; . . . at R. M. Smith's
Drug Store.
Feb. 5
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], February
7, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Soap Making.--We were very much interested yesterday in going through the soap
manufactory of Messrs. C. C. Morgan & Co., at the corner of St. Joseph and
New Levee, to observe the works and the curious process of soap making.
They are now turning out three kinds of soap, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, which we
learn is equal to anything of the kind ever imported from the North, either as
to quality or price, while they carry on the business upon such a scale as to
enable them to fill the largest orders. This
is only one of the many evidences that necessity is the mother of invention, and
that we have skill and enterprise in plenty in our midst.--N. O. True Delta, 2d.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], March
17, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Large Amount of Soap Produced from Myrtle Wax--A correspondent of the
Charleston Courier gives the following:
I find the following recipe for making soap from Myrtle wax (Myrica
cerifera) in an old number of the Southern Agriculturist.
As one of the complaints of soap makers is the difficulty and expense of
obtaining the grease, it will be well for us to avail ourselves of a production
of Nature, found abundantly in our lower country. The fruit is now matured, and may be had in abundance for the
picking. I saw, this day, very good
candles made of Myrtle wax. I trust
our planters, residing in the vicinities of the Myrtle, will profit by these
advantages before the season for picking has passed.
Yours,
J. B.
"To three bushels and a half of common wood ashes add half a bushel
of unslaked lime. This being well
mixed together, put into a cask capable of containing sixty gallons, and fill up
with water. In forty-eight hours
the ley [sic] will be strong enough to float an egg.
Then draw off, and from six to eight gallons of it put into a copper
kettle, capable of containing twenty five gallons. To this add only four pounds of Myrtle wax.
Keep constantly boiling for six hours.
For the first three or four hours pour in occasionally a supply of strong
ley [lye], the whole frequently well stirred with a ladle.--After six hours'
boiling, throw in two quarts of common large grain salt into the kettle, leave
one hour more to simmer over a slow fire. The
liquor must be placed in tubs to cool for twenty-four hours.
Take out the soap, wipe it clean; put it to dry.
"The produce of this soap when it was weighed the next day was found
to be forty-nine pounds of good solid soap, from the materials and by the
process above mentioned. At the end
of six weeks the soap had only lost a few pounds from the evaporation of its
watery particles.
"In many parts of our State the Myrtle tree is abundant, and from
three pecks to a bushel may be gathered from a hand per day.
Would it not be worth the while of the planters to attend to this matter?
I am sure it would save them many a dollar.
Economy."
WASHINGTON [ARK.] TELEGRAPH, April 30, 1862
HOSPITAL STORES.--About twenty-five ladies had an informal meeting at this place
last Monday for the purpose of co-operating in forwarding stores for the
hospital at Little Rock. . . . It
may not be generally known that half worn clothes, such as shirts, drawers,
socks, underclothes of all sorts, sheets, pillow cases, &c., are very much
needed, and also large quantities of soap for washing.
Soldiers are brought into the hospital in heavy woolen clothes, generally
much soiled. They have mostly no
change of garments, and are utterly unfit to be comfortably nursed.
The hospital requires large stores to be kept constantly clean for
frequent change. Life often depends
on it, to say nothing of the comfort of the poor fellow, who lies many a weary
day, thinking of home. Any food or
herbs suitable for the sick or convalescent will also be acceptable. The articles will be stored and packed at Mr. Carrigan's
Commissary store, next to Moore & Smith's drug store.
DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], May 2,
1862, c. 3, c. 1
Soap and Candle Manufactory.--Two most essential articles, for which we
have heretofore depended on the North, are soap and candles.
They are indispensable in all well regulated households.
Mr. J. V. Clark, whose advertisement appears in another column, is
engaged in the manufacture of a superior article of candles, of various grades
and prices, and suited to the season. We
have tried some of his candles, and found them to be excellent, as we noticed in
our columns sometime since. He is
also making good hard and soft soap. At
a considerable outlay, he has embarked in this enterprise, and he should be
encouraged and patronized. Having
cut loose from the North and its manufactured wares, let us stimulate home
industry by all available means.
Mr. Clark's establishment is near the corner of Broad street and Bridge
Row.
CHARLESTON MERCURY, May
6, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Home Made Soap and Starch.--A lady sends us the following simple and
useful recipe for making soap and starch: Put
up the bones of everything for a fortnight, and then boil them in strong lye,
skimming as long as the grease rises. The
next day boil the grease with strong lye until it becomes soap.
Put some lime in the lye barrel, and it makes much better soap.
All of my starch is soft hominy or gruel strained.
If you have not come to it yet, try it.
How much this war will teach us!
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Home-Made Soap and Starch.—A lady sends us the following simple and
useful recipe for making soap and starch. Put
up the bones of everything for a fortnight, and then boil them in strong lye,
skimming as long as the grease rises. The
next day boil the grease with strong lye until it becomes soap.
Put some lime in the lye barrel, and it makes much better soap.
All of my starch is soft hominy or gruel, strained.
If you have not come to it yet, try it.
How much this war will teach us!—Charleston Mercury.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Recipe for Making Soap.—A correspondent gives the following recipe for
soap-making, and adds, that it would be worth one thousand dollars in the hands
of a selfish person, and the world would have to untie the purse strings to get
it, but here it is free gratis:
Take six pounds of potash,
Four pounds of lard,
One fourth pound of rosin.
Beat up the rosin, mix all together well, and set aside for five days,
then put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warm water and stir twice a day for
ten days, at the expiration of which time, or sooner, you will have some
excellent soap.
It seems to us that every family should make their own soap in these
times of high prices.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], June 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Cargo Sale at Auction of 4731 Packages of
English Goods, direct from London, put up
expressly for this Market.
by R. A. Pringle,
At No. 137 Meeting Street,
Charleston, S. C.,
J. H. Taylor, Auctioneer.
On Wednesday Morning, June 11th,
1862, commencing at 10 o'clock.. . .
250
boxes Crown Mottled Soap
250 boxes Crown Soap . . .
12 cases Old Brown Windsor Soap
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 7, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Cargo
Sale at Auction of
4,731 Packages
English Goods,
Direct from London, and put up expressly for this Market,
By R. A. Pringle,
Jas. H. Taylor, Auctioneer.
On Wednesday morning, June 11, at 187 Meeting Street,
commencing at 10 o'clock.
. . .
250 boxes Crown Mottled Soap
250 boxes Crown Soap . . .
12 cases Old Brown Windsor Soap
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, June 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Baths,
Baths.
Hot or Cold Baths,
from this date FIFTY CENTS. Sorry
to be compelled to raise the price of bathing; but, from the high price of
living articles, I cannot help it.
Gentlemen finding their own soap can get three tickets for $1.00.
J.
M. Haywood.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
August 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Cotton Seed Soap.--Put cotton seed into a large and strong iron pot, in
small quantities at a time, mash them well with a wooden pestle, and then pour
in a certain quantity of common ley [lye], and boil thoroughly; strain in an
ordinary sieve, and proceed in the usual way, in drying and cutting into cakes.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], August 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Dye Stuffs, Drugs, &c.
at Wholesale
. .
. 600 lbs. Toilet Soaps, . . .
Hamilton, Markley & Joiner.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
August 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Manufacture of Soap.--One of the greatest wants of the Confederacy, and
especially of the army, has lately been soap.
We are glad to see that in Richmond the article is now produced to such
an extent as to cause a fall of price from a dollar or more to fifty cents a
pound. A few days ago, says the
Fayetteville Observer, we were presented with a very creditable specimen of
turpentine bar soap, made by a lady of this town, under the direction of a. J.
O'Hanlon, esq. She can turn out 100
pounds a week.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, August 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Brown
Windsor
Soap.
One Case,
Just received by
Recent Arrival Direct from Europe,
A. A. Solomons & co.
Druggists.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, August 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
A correspondent sends us the following recipe for making soap without
grease, which is of importance to housekeepers at this time:
To four gallons of strong ley add ten pounds of distilled rosin, or eight
pounds of pine gum not distilled and free of trash is better; boil steadily
until there is no rosin to be seen, and if the quantity of ley is not
sufficient, add more and continue to add until the rosin is out, and boil until
it makes a brown jelly soap. I have
used this soap for a year, and it is equal to the best soap made with grease.
SOUTHERN
BANNER [ATHENS, GA], August 20, 1862, p. 3, c. 5
Just Received and for Sale,
. . . Toilet Soaps; . . . at R. M. Smith 8 Drug Store. No. 10 Broad street.
August 20.
SOUTHERN
BANNER [ATHENS, GA], August 27, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
Soap Without Grease.--To four gallons of strong lye add ten pounds of distilled
rosin, or eight pounds of pine gum, not distilled and free from trash is better;
boil steadily until there is no rosin to be seen, and if the quantity of lye is
not sufficient add more, and continue to add until the rosin is out, and boil
until it makes a brown jelly soap. I
have used this soap for a year, and it is equal to the best soap made with
grease.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, September 2, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Blockade Sales.—We are becoming more convinced day after day of the
injurious effects of the auction sales of cargoes which run the blockade.
The prices of the goods sold in Charleston are almost fabulous, and of
course are paid by speculators, who advance even these extravagant prices to the
consumer. Just think of it, candles
$3.35 cents per pound, soap $1,70 cents, tea $14 per pound, and other articles
in proportion!
Some of our merchants attended the sale, but bought nothing.
The principal buyers were merchants and dealers from Richmond and
Petersburg, who run up the goods to enormous prices.
The effect of all this is simply this:
our merchants return home, and finding that they had been retailing goods
cheaper than they were sold at a "cargo sale," and that there was no
probability of replenishing their stocks at fair buying prices.
These cargo sales benefit nobody but the petty jobbers and speculators at
a distance, and have become a serious injury to the legitimate merchant and
consumer.—Columbia Guardian.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, September 3, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Important Item for Housekeepers.—In view of the exceeding great
scarcity of "soap grease," and the necessity that exists among all
classes for keeping a supply of the article on hand for the promotion of
cleanliness, the following receipt for making soap without grease, from a valued
lady friend, will be found very valuable at this time.
It has been sufficiently tested to assure us of its great importance and
usefulness: To four gallons of
strong ley add ten pounds of distilled rosin, or eight pounds of pine gum not
distilled and free of trash is better; boil steadily until there is no rosin to
be seen, and if the quantity of ley is not sufficient, add more and continue to
add until the rosin is out, and boil until it makes a brown jelly soap.
I have used this soap a year, and it is equal to the best soap made with
grease.—[Exchange paper.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, September 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Cotton Seed Soap. Put cotton seed
into a large and strong iron pot, in small quantities at a time, mash them well
with a wooden pestle, and then pour in a certain quantity of common ley [lye],
and boil thoroughly; strain in an ordinary sieve, and proceed in the usual way,
in drying and cutting into cakes.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, September 24, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Just
Received from Charleston,
A fine lot of English Tooth Brushes and Windsor Soaps, and also the
following Handkerchief Extracts: Kiss
me Quick, Frangipanni, Verbena, Moss Rose, Violet, Patchuly, Rondelitia,
Carnation, Jockey Club, Piccolomini, West End, Spirit of Love,
At the Drug Store of
S. D. Brantley.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, October 3, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Soft
Soap!
We are now making a superior article of
Jelly Soap.
Price 12 ½ Cents per Pound,
By the Barrel.
Orders are respectfully solicited.
A. Dutenhofer & co.
Atlanta, Ga.
MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, October 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
[For the Evening
News]
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.
Messrs. Editors: It may be
of interest to your numerous readers to know that, with not a cent of additional
expense, tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of merit to the common
star candle.
To two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong ley from wood
ashes, and simmer over a slow fire—when a greasy scum will float on top; skim
this off for making soap, (it is very near soap already) as long as it continues
to rise. Then mould your candles as
usual, making the wicks a little smaller—and you have a pure, hard tallow
candle, worth knowing how to make—and one that burns as long and gives a light
equal to sperm. The chemistry
demonstrates itself. An ounce or
two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks in
spirits turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.
Yours, W.
West Point, Miss., Oct. 5th, 1862.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
October 13, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Richmond, Wednesday, October 8.
. . . Brown Windsor and honey soaps are now manufactured here by a Monsieur
Garcia. . . .
Hermes.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], October 16, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.
Messrs.
Editors Mobile Register & Advertiser:
It may be of interest to your numerous readers to know that, with not a
cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of
merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong 'ley' [lye] from
wood ashes, and simmer over a slow fire--when a greasy scum will float on top;
skim this off for making soap, (it is very near soap already) as long as it
continues to rise. Then mould your
candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller--and you have a pure, hard
tallow candle, worth knowing how to make--and one that burns as long and gives a
light equal to sperm. The chemistry
demonstrates itself.--An ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some
harder, and steeping the wicks in spirits turpentine will make it burn some
brighter. I write with one before me.
Yours,
W.
West Point, Miss., Oct. 5th, 1862.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, October 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Tallow
Candles Equal to Star.
West Point, Miss., Oct. 5, 1862.
Editors Mobile Register & Advertiser:
It may be of interest to your numerous readers to know that, with not a
cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of
merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong ley from wood
ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim
this off for making soap, (it is very near soap already), as long as it
continues to rise. Then mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little
smaller—and you have a pure, hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make,
and one that burns as long and gives a light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.
Yours,
W.
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], November 5, 1862, p. 4, c. 1
Tallow Candles Equal to Star
Messrs. Editors:--It may be of some interest to your
numerous readers to know that, with not a cent of additional expense, tallow
candles can be made fully equal in point of merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds tallow add one teacupful of good ley [lye] from wood ashes, and
simmer over a slow fire, when greasy scum will float on top; skim this off for
soap, (it is very soap already,) as long as it continues to rise.
Then mould your candles as usual making the wicks a little smaller, and
you have a pure hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that
burns as long, and gives a light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself.--An ounce or two of beeswax will make
the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks in spirits turpentine will make
it burn some brighter. I write with
one before me.--Mobile News.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, November 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Recipe for Making Soap.—Pour 12 quarts of soft boiling water upon 5
lbs. of unslaked lime; then dissolve 5 lbs. of washing soda in 12 quarts of
boiling water. Mix the above
together, and let the mixture remain together from 12 to 24 hours, for the
purpose of chemical action. Now
pour off all the clear liquid, being careful not to disturb the sediments.
Add to the above 3 ½ lbs. of clarified grease, and from 3 to 4 ounces of
rosin. Boil this compound together one hour, and pour off to cool.
Cut it up in bars for use, and you are in possession of a superior
chemical soap, costing about 3 ½ cents per pound.
DALLAS HERALD, November 15, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.—Messrs. Editors:--It may be of interest
to your numerous readers to know that, with not a cent of additional cost,
tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of merit to the common star
candle. To two pounds of tallow add
one tea-cup full of strong ley [lye], from wood ashes, and simmer over a slow
fire, when the greasy scum will float over the top; skim this off for making
soap, (it is very near soap already,) as long as it continues to rise.—Then
mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller, and you have a
pure, hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that burns as long
and gives a light equal to sperm. The
chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits turpentine will make it burn some brighter.--—write with one before
me.—Mobile News.
SAN
ANTONIO HERALD, November 15, 1862, p. 2, c.3
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.--Messrs. Editors: It may be of some interest to your readers to know that
without a cent of additional cost, tallow candles can be made fully equal in
point of merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds tallow add one teacupful of good strong ley from wood
ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on the top
skim this off for making soap (it is very near soap already,) as long as it
continues to rise. Then mould your
candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller, and you have a pure, hard
tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that burns as long and gives a
light equal to sperm. The chemistry
demonstrates itself. An ounce of
two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks in
spirits turpentine will make them burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.--Mobile News.
SOUTHERN
WATCHMAN [ATHENS, GA], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
We were
presented with a piece of soap by Mr. J. I. McAllister, of this place, the other
day, of his own manufacture. It is
perfumed with sassafras, and made--we don't know how; but is certainly a very
good article. There is but one thing to prevent the people of the South
from making every thing they need, and that is the long-continued habit of
depending upon somebody else to do it. They
have made their money so easily heretofore, and had so many China and mulberry
trees to shade them in the Summer time, that they have found it more comfortable
to *buy* than to *make* such articles as they needed. If the present revolution shall learn *everybody to go to
work,* it will accomplish something for us; if not, it will be a useless
expenditure of blood and treasure. Without
*labor* there can be no excellence.
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], December 3, 1862, p. 3, c. 4
Just Received.
100 lbs white bar soap;
100 lbs Castile Soap;
50 lbs Cocoa nut oil soap;
6 doz. brown Windsor Soap;
2 "
Honey Soap;
at R. M. Smith's,
Dec. 3.
No. 10 Main St.
BELLVILLE [TX] COUNTRYMAN, December 6, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Tallow Candles Equal to Star.—Messrs. Editors:
It may be of some interest to your numerous readers to know that with not
a cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made fully equal in point of
merit to the common star candle.
To two pounds of tallow add one teacupful of good strong ley [lye], from wood
ashes, and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim
this off for making soap, (it is very near soap already,) as long as it
continues to rise. Then mould your
candles as usual, making the wicks a
little smaller, and you have a pure, hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to
make, and one that burns as long and gives a light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.—Mobile News.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, December 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Recipe for Making Soap.—Pour 12 qts. of soft boiling water upon 5 lbs.
of unslacked lime. Then dissolve 5
lbs. of washing soda in 12 quarts of boiling water.
Mix the above together and let the mixture remain together from 12 to 24
hours, for the purpose of chemical action.
Now pour off all the clear liquid—being careful not to disturb the
sediment. Add to the above 3 ½
lbs. of clarified grease, and from three to four ounces of rosin. Boil this compound together one hour, and pour off to cool.
Cut it up in bars for use, and you are in possession of a superior
chemical soap costing about three and a half cents per square.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
How to Make Good Soap.—Take good strong lye from oak ashes and chop
fine a good parcel of corn shucks, put them in the lye, boil until the lye eats
up the shucks, add more shucks, taking the strings out, then you will have good
soap.—Char. Courier.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, January 20, 1863, p. 1. c. 7
A Cheap and Excellent Soap.—The following recipe, handed to us by a
South Carolina planter, will be most acceptable in these times of scarcity.
He assures us no better soap can be made.
[Sav. Rep.
To eight quarts of strong ley, add three pints of pine gum or three
pounds of rosin; boil for five or six hours, stirring well to keep the fluid
from burning at the bottom. A
little wheat flour added will make it hard, if desired.
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, January 28, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
How
to Make Good Soap.
Take good strong lye from oak ashes and chop fine a good parcel of corn
shucks, put them in the lye, boil until the lye eats up the shucks, add more
shucks, taking the strings out, then you will have good soap.
We copy the above from the Charleston Courier, and hope some of our
readers will give it a trial, and let us know the result.
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], January 31, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Package Sale. The
Cargoes of the British Steamers
Calypso and Douglas
by R. A. Pringle,
137 Meeting Street,
Charleston, South Carolina,
James H. Taylor, Auctioneer.
On Wednesday Morning, February 11th, 1863,
commencing at 10 o'clock, will be sold,. . .
21
gross Brown Windsor Soap . . .
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], January 31, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Cargo Sale of Imported Goods
By R. A. Pringle,
No. 137 Meeting Street,
Charleston, South Carolina,
James H. Taylor, Auctioneer
On Tuesday Morning, February 3, 1863, commencing
at 10 o'clock, will be sold,
. .
.
58 boxes Family Soap
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, February 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Fruit Trees, &c. I have left, a
few choice peach trees; also Hand Soap; Rouge Balls; Blank books; Fresh Cabbage
Seed; Paint and White-wash Brushes; and Knitting Needles.
For sale by Geo. W. Fox, Cotton Square Drug Store.
feb14
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], February 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Cargo Sale of Goods, Imported Ex British
Steamers.
By R. A. Pringle,
137 Meeting Street,
Charleston, South Carolina,
James H. Taylor, Auctioneer.
On Thursday, 26th February, 1863, commencing at 10 o'clock—
. .
. 140 dozen Brown Windsor Soap
119 dozen Fancy Soap . . .
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], February 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Goods by Recent Arrivals per Steamers from Europe
by John G. Milnor & Co.,
Charleston, S. C.
On Thursday, the 26th instant, at 1 o'clock, we will sell at our Store, a large and desirable assortment of Goods, just received, consisting in part:
Sundries.
. .
. 47 dozen Toilet Soap . . .
BELLVILLE [TX] COUNTRYMAN, February 28, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Washing Clothes.—It is said that in washing clothes, the addition of
three quarters of an ounce of borax to a pound of soap, melted in without
boiling makes a saving of one half cost of soap, and three-fourths the labor of
washing, besides the usual caustic effect is removed, and the hands are left
with a peculiar soft and silky feeling, leaving nothing more to be desired by
the ambitious washerwoman.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 17, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just received, cotton cards, quinine, toilet soap, spool cotton, shoe-thread,
and matches. J. M. Benbrook, at
Hewit & Coulson's old stand. mar17
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 24, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Just Received. 20,000 large
needles; 12 doz. toilet soap; . . . which will be sold for cash only, by E.
Lewis, Auctioneer, Commerce Street. mar24.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, March 31, 1863, p. 1,
c. 5
Just Received. Cotton cards; toilet
soap; spool cotton; . . . J. M.
Benbrook, at Hewit & Coulson's Old Stand.
mar31.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, April 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Blockade Goods!! Just Received:-- .
. . Will be in store shortly--. . . 250 lbs. Castile soap; . . . which will be
sold for cash only, at the sale room of E. Lewis.
apr9.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [JACKSON, MS], April 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 7
Soap! Soap! Soap for the Million. All
of you who want bar soap, put up in boxes, can obtain the same at as reasonable
prices as the times will permit by applying at the Soap Factory, near the
Confederate House, Jackson, Miss.
G. T. Lynch, Proprietor.
P.S.--I will sell Soft Soap at 15 cents per pound.
It will be of first rate quality. All
parties wishing the same must furnish barrels.
Brigade commissaries and others will do well to have all the Grease they
can spare shipped to me. I will pay a high price for the same. All orders accompanied with the cash, or grease shipped will
be punctually attended to.
G. T. Lynch.
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, May 1, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just Received. 300 pounds Spanish
Castile Soap; . . . which will be sold low at the Salon Room of E. Lewis.
may1.
Shaving soap, pipes, &c. . . .
For sale at Cotton Square Drug Store. may1.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, May 5, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
Tallow Candles.—It may be of some interest to our numerous readers to
know that, with not a cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made
fully equal in point of merit to the common star candle:
To two pounds of tallow add one teacup full of good ley from good ashes,
and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim this off
for soap, (it is almost soap already) as long as it continues to rise.
Then mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller, and
you have a pure hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that
burns as long, and gives a light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits of turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me—Mobile News.
BELLVILLE [TX] COUNTRYMAN, May 9, 1963, p. 1, c. 5
How to make good soap.—Take good strong ley [lye]from oak ashes and
chop fine a good parcel of cornshucks put them in ley, boil until the ley eats
up the shucks, add more shucks, taking the strings out they you will have good
soap.
G.
[A sample can bee seen at the Courier office.—Charleston Courier]
NATCHEZ
DAILY COURIER, May 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Just Received, and for sale by the undersigned, a lot of Calico's; linen check;
handkerchiefs; coarse Lowels; rock salt and soap. G. Lemle. Franklin
Street. my14.
SAVANNAH [GA]
REPUBLICAN, May 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Direct
Importation from Paris.
F. Gradot
Has just received from Paris the following
articles:
. . . Fancy Soap,
and many other goods too numerous to mention. . . .
All these goods are now ready for inspection.
118 Broughton Street.
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, May 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Lone Star Soap and Candle Factory,
}
Houston, May 21st, 1863.
}
From and after this date, Mr. John Collins is my Agent for the sale of my Soap,
Oil and Candles.
Fkank Fabj [sic?]
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, June 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 7
Mrs. Wm. N. Wyatt has sent us a sample of soft soap made without the use
of a particle of grease, which is equal to the best article of the kind we ever
saw; and as the process of making it is simple and the ingredients within the
reach of all, we take pleasure in making it known that the public may be
benefitted [sic] thereby.
Take corn shucks, remove the hard, or shank end, strip those up find, and
place them in a pot or kettle of strong boiling ley, stir until all the
particles of shuck are consumed; add a tea-cup full of pine gum or rosin, to an
ordinary pot full, and you will have as good soap as you could wish.
We presume that the soap could be hardened in the usual way, if
desirable.—Marion Commonwealth.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], June 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 8
Making Soap.
One of our lady subscribers sent us a specimen of soap
manufactured under her own direction. Some
of our female friends to whom we showed it were so much pleased with it, that
they asked us to write to her for full directions as to its manufacture.
The receipt we publish below. Our
friend says in a private letter to us "You may tell your lady friends that
much of the beauty of the soap depends on the personal attention to the cleaning
the utensils; as the least impurity will discolor soap.
I always have the iron pot in which I make soap well rubbed with dry corn
meal after it is washed and apparently clean; if the meal in rubbing becomes
dark, I throw it out and get more. If
your friends have no moulds, while the soap is hot it can be poured into a
shallow dish, previously made wet. This
will make it come out of the dish without sticking."
As our correspondent has taken five premiums for her soap in different
parts of Virginia, our readers may be assured that the recipe is a good one.
All of us may learn to do something; and everything that tends to make us
independent is good for the country--Southern Churchman.
Have
ready hickory lye strong enough to bear an egg, showing the size of a dime above
the surface of the lye. To three
pounds of clean fat, after being melted, add two gallons of lye and a bit of
lime the size of a walnut; boil fast, and stir frequently.
When it has boiled an h our, stir in two gallons of the lye; continue to
stir it often and always one way. After
it has boiled for several hours, take out a spoonful and cool it on a plate; if
it does not jelly add a little water; if this causes it to jelly, add water to
that in the kettle--stir it very quickly while the water is poured in, till you
perceive that it ropes on the stick, or becomes heavy.
When this is the case, you have what is called jelly soap, or soft soap
by some. To make it hard, stir in
one quart of salt into the kettle, and let it boil ten minutes longer; set it by
to cool. Next day cut the soap out
of the kettle, and clarify it by melting it over, adding water enough barely to
cover it; let it just come to a boil and set it away. When perfectly cool and firm, turn it out of the oven, scrape
off any of the residue that may adhere to the cake of soap, cut it in pieces,
and place it on boards to harden.
To make
this soap fit for toilet purposes it is only necessary to cut it into thin
shavings, place it in a very nice tin pan, add a little water, scarcely enough
to cover the shavings; set it on some embers and stir and beat it with a nice
spoon until it becomes a smooth jelly; while in this state, if you wish to color
it mix Chinese vermilion in a little water and stir it in till you get the
desired hue; take it off the fire and add oil of lavender, bergamot, sassafras,
or any other essential oil, the scent of which you like; and while it is
somewhat liquid pour it into moulds.
SOUTHERN
BANNER [ATHENS, GA], July 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
New Goods. Soda, Bluestone; Bengal
Indigo' Black Pepper; Coperas [sic]; Arrow Root; Maccaboy Snuff; Prices
Glycerine [sic]; English Mustard; English Table Salt; Lead Pencils; Toilet
Powders; Lily White; Dressing Combs; Toilet Soap; Brown Windsor Soap, &c.
For sale at
R. M. Smith's.
July 15.
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, July 22, 1863, p. 1, c, 3
Tallow Candles.—It may be of some interest to our numerous readers to
know that, with not a cent of additional expense, tallow candles can be made
fully equal in point of merit to the common star candle:
To two pounds of tallow add one tea-cup full of good ley from good ashes,
and simmer over a slow fire, when a greasy scum will float on top; skim this off
for soap, (it is almost soap already) as long as it continues to rise.
Then mould your candles as usual, making the wicks a little smaller, and
you have a pure hard tallow candle, worth knowing how to make, and one that
burns as long and gives light equal to sperm.
The chemistry demonstrates itself. An
ounce or two of beeswax will make the candle some harder, and steeping the wicks
in spirits of turpentine will make it burn some brighter.
I write with one before me.—Mobile News.
WEEKLY COLUMBUS
[GA] ENQUIRER, July 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 6
Making
Soap.
One of our lady subscribers sent us a specimen of soap manufactured under
her own directions. Some of our
female friends to whom we shoed it were so much pleased with it, that they asked
us to write to her for full directions as to its manufacture.
The receipt we publish below. Our
friend says in a private letter to us "You may tell your lady friends that
much of the beauty of the soap depends on personal attention to the cleaning of
the utensils, as the least impurity will discolor soap. I always have the iron pot in which I make soap well rubbed
with dry corn meal after it is washed and apparently clean; if the meal in
rubbing becomes dark, I throw it out and get more.
If your friends have no moulds, while the soap is hot it can be poured
into a shallow dish, previously made wet. This
will make it come out of the dish without sticking.
As our correspondent has taken five premiums for her soap in different
parts of Virginia, our readers may be assured that the receipt is a good one.
All of us may learn to do something, and everything that tends to make us
independent is good for the country.—Southern Churchman.
Have ready hickory lye strong enough to bear an egg, showing the size of
a dime above the surface of the lye. To
three pounds of clean fat, after being melted, add three gallons of lye to a bit
of lime the size of a walnut; boil fast, and stir frequently.
When it is boiled an hour, stir in two gallons of the lye; continue to
stir it often and always one way. After
it has boiled several hours, take out a spoonful and cool it on the plat; if it
does not jelly add a little water; if this causes it to jelly, add while the
water is poured in, till you perceive that it ropes on the stick, or becomes
heavy. When this is the case you
have jelly soap, called soft soap by some.
To make it hard stir in one quart of salt into the kettle, and let it
boil ten minutes longer, then set it by to cool. Next day cut the soap out of the kettle and clarify it by
melting it over, adding water enough barely to cover it; let it just come to a
boil and set it away. When
perfectly cool and firm, turn it out of
the oven, scrape off any of the residuum that may adhere to the cake of the
soap, cut it in pieces, and place it on boards to harden.
To make this soap fit for toilet purposes it is only necessary to cut it
into thin shavings place it in a nice tin pan, add a little water, scarcely
enough to cover the shavings; set it on some embers and stir and beat it with a
nice spoon until it becomes a smoothe [sic] jelly; while in this state, if you
wish to color it mix Chinese vermillion [sic] in a little water, and stir it in
till you get the desired hue, take it off the fire and add oil of lavender,
bergamot, sassafras, or other essential oil, the scent of which you like; and
while it is somewhat liquid pour it into moulds.
SAN
ANTONIO HERALD, August 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
To Make White, Clear, Hard, Tallow Candles.--For 40 pounds of unrendered
tallow take eight or ten prickley-pear leaves, of ordinary size, burn off the
prickles, slice up the leaves into small strips and cook them with the tallow.
After it is strained put in about two pints of strong ashes-lye, and boil
until the lye is all out, skimming off that which rises to the surface, which
may be used in making soap. The
tallow will then be very clear, and will make a very superior candle; which will
give a good light, and be in all respects equal to the star candle.
We have seen and used candles made by this process, and we know it will
work as stated above. For a less or
greater quantity of tallow the other ingredients should be used in proportion.
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], August 24, 1864, p. 3, c. 6
Goods--Goods!
. .
. Bar, Toilet and Castile soap; . . .
.
I. M. Kenney,
next door above Bank of Athens.
Aug. 24, 1864.
DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], August 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 5
Auction Sales.
A splendid Assortment
by a
Late Arrival.
Will
be sold AT AUCTION, at Galserville [?], on Wednesday, September [illegible],
1863, the following list of articles just received by Spanish Star Isabel 2nd:
. . .
1000 pounds Spanish castile soap . . .
12 do rose soap
12 do almond soap
. . .
The above will be a bona fide sale.
Y. A. Mason, Auct'r.
DALLAS HERALD, September 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
To Make White, Clear, Hard, Tallow Candles.—For 40 pounds of unrendered tallow
take eight or ten prickley-pear [sic] leaves, of ordinary size, burn off the
prickles, slice up the leaves into small strips and cook them with the tallow.
After it is strained put in about two pints of strong ashes-lye, and boil
until the lye is all out, skimming off that which rises to the surface, which
may be used in making soap. The
tallow will then be very clear, and will make a very superior candle, which will
give a good light, and be in all respects equal to the star-candle. We have seen and used candles made by this process, and we
know it will work as stated above. For
a less or greater quantity of tallow, the other ingredients should be used in
proportion.—Telegraph.
MOBILE REGISTER AND
ADVERTISER, January 16, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Recipe for Washing Clothes.—The night before washing day, put the
clothes to soak in cold water, and also place on the hot stove, in a suitable
vessel, two pounds of soap, cut small; one ounce borax and two quarts of water.
These may be left to simmer till the fire goes out; in the morning the
mixture will be solid. On washing day operations are commenced by setting on a stove
or furnace the wash-kettle nearly filled with cold water.
Into this put one-fourth of a pound of the compound, and then wring out
the clothes that have been soaking, and put them into the kettle.
By the time that the water is scalding hot, the clothes will be ready to
take out. Drain them well, and put
them into clean cold water, and then thoroughly rinse them twice, and they are
ready to be hung out. When more
water is added to the wash-kettle, more soap should also be added but the
quantity needed will be very small. This
process has many advantages over others. It
is suitable for washing every kind of fabric; it is especially good for
flannels, and seems to set colors rather than remove them from dresses or
shawls, while the white clothes are rendered exceedingly white.
It costs less for soap than the common mode of washing; it is only half
as laborious, the clothes are thoroughly cleansed in much less time, but not
least, the soap does not act like caustic upon the hands, but after a day's
washing they have a peculiarly soft, silky feeling, as far removed as is
possible from the sensations produced by washing with ordinary washing
compounds.—[Southern Cultivator.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, February 11, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
L. E. Welch, Druggist, Albany, Ga. On
hand and for sale the following articles: .
. . Castile Soap, Toilet Soap, . . . I make great effort to keep on hand every
Drug and Medicine the community needs, and that the present state of the country
affords. Prescriptions carefully
compounded.
feb 11.
L. E. Welch.
NASHVILLE DAILY UNION,
February 19, 1864
Soap
Chapter.
To Make Washing Soap.—One gallon soft water; 2 lbs. hard soap, made of
palm or olive oil and soda ash; 4 oz. sal. soda; 2 oz. borax.
Put all in a clean kettle, bring to a gentle boiling, and in ten minutes
put in three tablespoonfuls of burning fluid and two of hartshorn.
Simmer till well blended, then pour off.
How to Make Toilet or Shaving Soap.—One gallon water, 4 lbs. hard soap,
as above, 2 oz. borax, 2 oz. sal soda. Color
with a teaspoonful of Chinese vermillion [sic], dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of
warm water. Streak through the
mould, while warm, stirring in flavoring, also, at the same time.
To Make Transparent Soap.—Shave very fine the soap used.
Use the same soaps as above—Colgate & Co.'s Opodeldoc soap for the
white, and common bar and chemical soap for the fine transparent.
Put best alcohol in a vessel deep enough to be safe on a stove.
When it begins to simmer, put in the shavings; 1 lb. of soap to 1 pint of
alcohol, is all the soap the alcohol will cut; pour off as soon as dissolved.
Keep from fire. If it should
take fire, smother out.
To Make Honey Soap.—Shave and dissolve two pounds of yellow soap in a
vessel suspended in boiling water. Then add one-quarter pound of each of strained honey and palm
oil, and three cents worth of the oil of cinnamon. Useable when cold.
To Make One Barrel of Soft Soap into Two.—Put one barrel of soft water
to a barrel of soap, and five lbs. sal soda, a half-pint of hartshorn, and a
half-pint of burning fluid. Green soaps must be kept from freezing; if frozen, melt over.
NASHVILLE DAILY UNION,
March 1, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Daily Union Office,
Nashville, March 1st, 1864.
. . . Soap—German 12 1/2c per lb; Family 12½ c.
. . . Note.—The above are wholesale prices.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, March 3, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
. . . castile soap, toilet soap, . . . just received at the drugs store of L. E.
Welch. march 3.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [ATLANTA, GA], April 2, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
The retail variety store of Messrs. Fulcher & Co., on Whitehall street,
between Alabama and Hunter, west side, is kept regularly replenished with almost
every article demanded by the public wants, such as table ware, cutlery, pins
and needles, pocket combs, stationery, pens and pencils, pocket handkerchiefs,
socks, pipes, chewing tobacco, fine soaps, and in fact almost any article that
can be called for. Their
arrangements are such that their show cases and shelves are kept full, and the
wants of the public are particularly consulted.
Give them a call and examine their stock.
Their stand is opposite the store of D. Mayer.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
April 20, 1864, p. 1, c. 2
A Good Soap Recipe.--Pour 12 quarts of boiling water upon 5 pounds of
unslacked lime; then dissolve 5 pounds of washing soda in 12 quarts of boiling
water, mix the above together, and let the mixture remain together from 12 to 24
hours for the purpose of chemical action. Now
pour off all the clear liquid, being careful not to disturb the sediment, add to
the liquid 3 1/2 pounds of clarified grease and from 3 to 4 ounces of rosin. Boil the compound together one hour, pour off to cool, and
the next day cut in bars for use.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, April 21, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Refined Borax, Sal. Soda, Cooking Soda, Mustard, Toilet Soaps, Castile
Soap; Black Pepper; Nutmegs; Cloves, Mace, &c. Apr 21.
For sale at L. E. Welch's Drug Store.
CHARLESTON MERCURY,
June 21, 1864, p. 1, c. 6
Cheap Soap--A correspondent of the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer, says:
"A friend informs us that he obtained from he Observer a recipe for
making the article which is worth a dozen years' subscription.
It is simply strong ley and rosin, boiled together, till of the proper
consistency. Not a particle of
grease is necessary. His family was
thus supplied with an excellent soap all last year--excellent, as his own
faultless shirt bosom showed. If
salt were not so dear, an addition of a proper proportion of that would make
"bar turpentine soap."
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, June 29, 1864, p. 1, c. 5
Head Qrs., Bureau of Conscription,
Trans Mississippi Department,
Marshall, Texas, June 9th, 1864.
General Orders No. 13.
I. Manufacturers of iron, salt, wool or cotton cloth, soap or
candles, who have been or may be detailed as such manufacturers, or to manage
and superintend their factories, or who have had or may have conscripts or
soldiers detailed as operators or employees in such factories, will be required
to make affidavit that they will, during the continuance of their details, sell
the articles produced or manufactured at their establishments at prices not
exceeding those fixed by the Commissioners of the State under the Impressment
Act. . .
VII. Any evasion of this order or of the provisions of General
Order No. 11, either by refusal to perform work or to sell for Confederate
money, or by obtaining provisions in exchange for work articles manufactured, or
received by way of toll at prices below their customary market value in the
neighborhood, or by exchanging work or articles manufactured or received for
toll for provisions or supplies for re-sale, will be punished by prompt
revocation of the detail.
VIII. Upon proper application and satisfactory proof, one man will
be detailed as superintendent to every manufactory of Salt, in which not less
than 20 bushels are actually manufactured per day.
But such details will not be made to such manufactories as have
superintendents not subject to military duty.
By command of
Brig. Gen. Greer,
W. Stedman, A. A. General.
MOBILE REGISTER AND
ADVERTISER, July 2, 1864, p. 2, c. 5
It is no fanciful chimera of the brain, no wild mental hallucination, but
a plain and simple fact, that we at last have a toilet soap manufactory in
Mobile; a soap guaranteed in every sense of the word.
We have tried it, and unhesitatingly take great pleasure in giving it a
hearty recommendation as a well perfumed No. 1 toilet soap, and consider it a
duty of the people to extend to the firm of Cook & Dromgoole a liberal
patronage so long as their soaps give satisfaction. Their make of "Brown Windsor" is splendid, and if
the ladies ever use such an article, we advise them to try it.
It can be found at No. 8 Water street, where it can be had wholesale and
retail.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, July l7, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Albany Prices.-- . . . Sugar, syrup, salt and soap are steady at good prices,
with little evidences of decline. The
retail prices are, sugar $4.50 to $5.50, syrup $15 per gallon, salt 75 cents per
lb, soft soap 50 cents, hard lye soap $1.25, and rosin soap $3.50 to $4 per lb;
vinegar is worth from $3 to $5 per gallon. . . .
BELLVILLE [TX] COUNTRYMAN, August 16, 1864, p. 1, c. 1
If people will not keep their hands and faces clean after reading the
following, it is not our fault. We
therefore publish a receipt for making soap out of materials that can always be
obtained in spite of the blockaders, and thus wash our hands from further
responsibility:
First boil a ley [lye] from oak and hickory ashes, strong enough to eat a
feather; put the ley into tubs until it settles, and then strain through a
coarse towel.
Put about three gallons of this ley into a large wash kettle or pot, and
after boiling a few minutes add eight pounds of clear lard; boil briskly four or
five hours, adding frequently several gourds full of weak ley, until a good soap
is made entirely free from grease. Now
draw the fire away from the pot and stir into the soap salt until the soap
becomes thin and runs off of the paddle like buttermilk; it is then turned.
Put the fire under again, and after boiling the soap for fifteen minutes,
pour into it about two quarts of weak brine, and take the pot immediately from
the fire, the soap which will rise like foam to the top must be skimmed off
immediately into wash-bowls.
You may then perfume it with oil of burgamot, cinnamon, lemon, sassafras,
or any other perfume, as your taste directs.
It may be colored by stirring into it a small quantity of vermillion,
Spanish brown or Venetian red—I use vermillion.
If you desire to marble the soap, you must mix the coloring matter with
only a small portion of the soap and after pouring a thin layer of white soap
into the mould, stripe it over with the color, again pour on white, color again,
pour on white, color again, and so on until the pan is full. I use stove pans for moulding, and when hard, cut it by the
square into cakes of desirable size; let these dry for about a week, then smooth
them off with a plane. The
trimmings may all be melted and moulded over so that nothing will be
wasted.—Telegraph.
SOUTHERN
BANNER [ATHENS, GA], September 7, 1864, p. 3, c. 6
For the Ladies--Brown Windsor Soap, Chalk, Lily White, Tooth Brushes, Dressing
Combs, Scissors, Knitting Pins, Thimbles, etc. etc.
I. M. Kenney,
Next door above Bank of Athens.
Sept. 7
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, October 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Soaps of all kinds. Toilet soap,
Castile soap, shaving soap, bar soap, dressing combs, fine combs, tooth brushes,
toilet powder, tooth powder, knives, genuine Mason's blacking.
For sale at L. E. Welch's drug store.
Sept. 8th, 1864.
Spices, Pepper, &c. Black
pepper, spice, mace, cloves, starch, soda, cream tartar, sperm candles, soaps,
mustard, matches &c. L. E.
Welch. Sept. 8th, 1864.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, November 10, 1864, p. 2, c. 4
More New Goods at Welch's Drug Store, for Family Use. Fine green tea, black pepper, spice, cloves, mace, soda,
sperm candles, bar soap, Bro. Windsor soap, toilet soaps, starch, mustard,
&c., &c. L. E. Welch.
Albany, Nov. 10, 1864.
Sundries. Fine cologne, hair oils,
Bos. Rum, dressing combs, fine combs, tooth brushes, tooth powders, razors,
shaving soap, Mason's blacking, oil paste blacking, Spaulding's glue, wax
matches, pocket knives, Lilly [sic] white, &c, &c.
L. E. Welch. Albany, Nov.
10, 1864.
DALLAS HERALD, November 26, 1864, p. 2, c. 4
We were called upon Saturday to witness the operation of a very ingenious
machine for braiding or plaiting candle wick, invented and made by Ralph Hooker
and Baker Jamison, of this city. It
braids three strands with great rapidity and evenness, and is a curiosity worth
looking at. The ingenuity of these
mechanics is well known to our citizens. This
machine will prove one of the most useful of their inventions, furnishing a
self-consuming candle wick, hitherto a great disideratum [sic] in domestic
candle-making. We believe Frank
Fabj, of the Houston Soap and Candle Factory, has secured this
machine.—Houston Tel. 14th.
AUSTIN STATE GAZETTE,
December 21, 1864, p. 2, c. 5
New
Goods!
The subscribers have
just received the following assortment of Dry Goods and Groceries, which they
will sell for Confederate money, State Warrants, or specie--
White blankets, grey blankets, men's shoes, ladies' shoes, boys' shoes,
childrens' shoes, grey cloth, blue satinett, grey satinett, bleached domestic,
blue denims, brown domestic, cotton cards, gents drab hats, matches, gents blk
hats, calico, nutmegs, gum camphor, spice, white sugar, coffee, brown sugar,
candles, cream tartar, tea, white beans and toilette soap.
Sampson & Henricks.
Austin, December 21st,'64.
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, December 28, 1864, p. 2, c. 7
Holiday Gifts.—Books, for all ages.
Perfumery, Cologne, Fancy Soaps, Pictures, Gold Pens, Fine Cutlery, Fancy
Inkstands, &c., &c.
James Burke.
GALVESTON WEEKLY
NEWS, January 11, 1865, p. 1, c. 5
Soap—Soap—Government
Soap.
Bolivar Point, Jan. 8th, 1865.
Ed. News:--Knowing that it is not your habit to soft-soap government
officials, agents and contractors, and that you are always ready to expose
frauds on the government and the soldiery.
I would call your attention to one that is being perpetrated on both by
the contractor for supplying soap to this and other commands within the defences
of Galveston. Soap is a great institution, without it the world would soon
relapse into the unwashed barbarism of early times; the social status; the
intellectual and moral purity or every nation, community and family, may be
reckoned by the amount of its consumption.
Our present civilization to a great extent may be attributed to its
humanizing and elevating influence. It
has its evils too, particularly soft soap, and by its lavish expenditure
contracts are received by which the government is defrauded and the soldier
robbed of his rights. We have never
known a man who habitually wore a dirty shirt that was not proverbial for
cowardice. We fear its demoralizing
influence on the military. In the
article furnished by the contractor referred to so far as our experience and
tests extend, we have been unable to discover that it possesses any of the
qualities of soap. In appearance it
resembles a substance procured from boiling beef shanks.
With the necessary ingredients, sherry wine and loaf sugar, it might make
excellent jelly—without them it is perfectly worthless.
We presume the contractor is making quite a good thing out of his
contract. If he expects to come out
with clean hands we would advise him not to rely on his own soap.
We have tried it and the more we wash the fouler our hands become and in
the end it involves a considerable outlay of a better article to get rid of it.
We would suggest to the quartermaster, as an item of economy to the
government that he suspend the further issue of the article, until the sherry
and sugar can be procured. It can
then be issued as a ration of jelly in lieu of others he has been unable to
supply.
Sentinel.
SOUTHERN
BANNER [ATHENS, GA], January 25, 1865, p. 1, c. 2
To Make Toilet Soap.--Take the common country soap, cut it up in a plenty of
water, as soon as it boils, throw in a handful of salt, and then strain through
a cloth to free it from grit; do this two or there times, until the ley [lye]
which settles at the bottom has lost its strength, then melt it (without water)
and scent with some of the essential oil, or a cake or two of highly perfumed
soap. Pour into cups or any other
shaped mould to cool. When properly
made this is far better for the skin than most of the soap we buy.
SOUTHERN
WATCHMAN [ATHENS, GA], January 25, 1865, p. 1, c. 5
To Make Toilet Soap.--Take common country soap, cut it up in a plenty of
water; as soon as it boils, throw in a handful of salt, and then strain through
a cloth to free it from grit; do this two or three times, until the ley [lye]
which settles at the bottom has lost its strength, then melt it without water,
and scent it with some of the essential oils, or a cake or two of highly
perfumed soap. A little honey is a
great improvement to it. Pour it
into cups or any other shaped mould to cool.
When properly made, this is far better for the skin than most of the soap
we buy.
ALBANY
[GA] PATRIOT, March 2, 1865, p. 1, c. 2
To make Toilet Soap.--Take common country soap, cut it up in a plenty of water;
as soon as it boils throw in a handful of salt, and then strain through a cloth
to free it from grit; do this two or three times, until the ley [lye] which
settles at the bottom has lost its strength, then [illegible] it without water,
and scent it with some of the essential oils, or a cake or two of highly
perfumed soap. A little honey is a
great improvement to it. Pour it
into cups or any other shaped mould to cool.
When properly made this is far better for the skin than most of the soap
we buy.