Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap and Candles: Based Upon the Most Recent Experiences in the Science and the Practice, Comprising the Chemistry, the Raw Materials, the Machinery and Utensils, and Various Processes of Manufacture, Including a Great Variety of FormulasThere is scarcely another industry which can Show as many improvements, inventions, and novelties during the last ten vears as the manufacture of soap, and yet, though there is no lack of good literature, there is not a book in the English language which treats the subject so fully as to answer all the demands and require ments of modern times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.