Name: Almond Soap
Ingredients: ¼ pound otto of almonds; 25 pounds melted bar soap; a small quantity of water; vermilion dye (for pink); smalt (for blue)

Almond Soap

Ingredients

Directions

Melt the bar soap with a small amount of water until smooth.
Add the otto of almonds and stir well.
Perfume or color the mixture as desired.
Pour into molds, cut into squares, and stamp.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.