It's interesting to me that no directions are given for determining the relative temperature of the ingredients. Saponification happens between approximately 85 and 93 degrees, so it's not a large temperature range and it leaves to me to wonder if they were not aware of the importance of the temperature in the saponification process.
I also wonder what properties the egg white was supposed to have brought to the soap. The other ingredients are also a mystery. I would imagine that the red lead would have colored the soap very interestingly.
The other recipe makes a bit more sense in that benzoin is a fixative that I'm assuming they felt would fix the rose water scent into the soap.
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I also wonder what properties the egg white was supposed to have brought to the soap. The other ingredients are also a mystery. I would imagine that the red lead would have colored the soap very interestingly.
The other recipe makes a bit more sense in that benzoin is a fixative that I'm assuming they felt would fix the rose water scent into the soap.
Fascinating stuff.