Doomsday Defense

Handbook · 1922

Soap-Making Manual

by E. G. Thomssen, Ph.D.

Historical text. Lye (sodium or potassium hydroxide) causes severe chemical burns and blindness. Wear eye protection and gloves, add lye to water (never water to lye), and keep it away from children.

Thomssen wrote for the commercial soap plant, so this is more chemistry than craft: the raw materials (tallow, oils, lye), saponification, the full-boiled, semi-boiled and cold processes, and the analysis of fats and finished soap. That depth is what makes it useful to anyone who needs to understand soap, rather than follow a recipe.

Soap is a frontline defense against disease after a disaster: see sanitation.

Author
E. G. Thomssen, Ph.D.
Published
1922, D. Van Nostrand Company
Topics
Traditional Crafts, Sanitation & Disease
Rights
Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
Transcription
Project Gutenberg eBook #34114

Contents

18 sections
  1. Prefatory Note
  2. Chapter I — Raw Materials Used in Soap Making
  3. Chapter II — Construction and Equipment of a Soap Plant
  4. Chapter III — Classification of Soap-Making Methods
  5. Chapter IV — Classification of Soaps (part 1 of 4)
  6. Chapter IV — Classification of Soaps (part 2 of 4)
  7. Chapter IV — Classification of Soaps (part 3 of 4)
  8. Chapter IV — Classification of Soaps (part 4 of 4)
  9. Chapter V — Glycerine Recovery
  10. Chapter VI — Analytical Methods (part 1 of 3)
  11. Chapter VI — Analytical Methods (part 2 of 3)
  12. Chapter VI — Analytical Methods (part 3 of 3)
  13. Chapter VII — Standard Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Commercial Fats and Oils (part 1 of 2)
  14. Chapter VII — Standard Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Commercial Fats and Oils (part 2 of 2)
  15. Plant and Machinery
  16. Appendix (part 1 of 2)
  17. Appendix (part 2 of 2)
  18. Literature of the Chemical Industries

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