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Soap-Making
Soap-Making was one of the first series of Unilever Educational Booklets. Written in the late 1950s, the booklet describes the principles of detergency and gives an account of both the batch and continuous methods of soap making.
Some of the content of this booklet was updated and represented as part of Detergents the first of the Unilever Ordinary Series in the late 1960s.
Contents
*Soap and civilization
*The secret of soap
*The soap-maker and his materials
*Making soap the old way
*Modern soap making
*Shaping the soap
*Hard soap
*Toilet soap
*Soap flakes
*Industrial soap
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