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Mac Nair-Dorland Company, Published 1949. Hardcover, 511 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs of soap plants and equipment, process diagrams, and chemical tables.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards, gold lettering on spine; mild shelf wear with light scuffing to two edges and at head and foot of spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.A practical technical reference for the commercial soap maker, issued in 1949 as a completely rewritten successor to the authors' 1937 Modern Soap Making. Covers raw materials (oils, fats, fatty acids, and alkalis), plant machinery and equipment, soap-making processes (full-boiled, semi-boiled, cold, continuous, and the Sharples process), the full range of soap products (toilet, shaving, laundry, industrial, medicated, and liquid soaps), perfuming and coloring, glycerine recovery, the then-new synthetic detergents, and analytical control methods, with an extensive appendix of formulas and conversion tables.Contents: Raw Materials, Definitions, General Considerations; Machinery and Equipment; Soap Making Methods; Soap Products; Perfuming and Coloring Soaps; Glycerine Recovery; Synthetic Detergents; Process and Analytical Control Methods; Appendix; Index.
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