sal soda
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A soap to clean clothes without rubbing: Take two pounds of sal soda, two pounds of common bar soap and ten quarts of water.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by F. L. (Fanny Lemira) Gillette
If bleaches of any kind are to be used—washing powders, sal soda, borax, and the like—it must be in either the soaking water or the boiler, and very sparingly.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
A weak solution of sal soda or wood ashes.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
For instance: Equal parts of soft soap and sal soda, with enough crude carbolic acid to give a strong odor.
From The Apple by Various
Put 25 gallons of water into a kettle or tank of from 40 to 50 gallons' capacity, heat to boiling, and add the sal soda.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
