18th Century Soap
Last updated: Jan 7, 2024
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- “At London, and in all other Parts of the Country where they do not burn Wood, they do not make Lye. All their Linnen, coarse and fine, is wash’d with Soap. When you are in a Place where the Linnen can be rinc’d in any large Water, the Stink of the black Soap is almost all clear’d away.” M. Misson’s Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England (1719)
- Soap in Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanum, & Botanicum, or, a Dictionary of Husbandry, Gardening, Trade, Commerce, and all Sorts of Country-Affairs (1726)
- Smegmatalogia, or the Art of Making Potashes and Soap, and Bleaching of Linen by which the Industrious Farmer is taught to Bleach and Wash his Cloath with the Produce of our Own Country (1736)
- Receipts for Perfumery, &c. in The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1784)
- Savonnerie in Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1771)
- The toilet of Flora; or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters by Pierre-Joseph Buchoz, 1779 (also on Google Books)
- White Soap
- Honey Soap
- A perfumed Soap
- Fine ſcented Waſh-ball
- A Waſh-ball, an excellent Coſmetic for the Face and Hands
- Bologna Waſh-balls
- An excellent Waſh-ball for the Complexion
- Seraglio Waſh-balls
- A Soap that takes out all manner of Spots and Stains (for laundry)
- A Soap to take out all Kinds of Stains (for laundry)
- Of Soap in Elements of the Art of Dyeing by M. Berthollet (1791)
- Specification of the Patent granted to Mr. John Crooks of Edinburgh, Chemist; for a new Method of making Soap, and Bleaching, by Means and Use of Mineral and Vegetable Alkalies in The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures (1798)
- A Collection of Receipts of Various Kinds in The Laboratory; or, School of Arts by G. Smith (1799):
- Of the Manufacture of Soap, from the Journal des Arts et Manufactures in The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures (1801)
- “Soap is made for family use at a very cheap rate, as, from the great quantity of wood burned, the ashes are in great plenty. For this purpose, they boil bones of any kind in a ley of wood-ashes; strain it off; boil it a second time; and thus make a very good sort of soft soap.” The Experienced Farmer’s Tour in America (1805)