_Toilet Soaps--Cold Process Soaps--Settled Boiled Soaps--Remelted Soaps--Milled Soaps--Drying--Milling and Incorporating Colour, Perfume, or Medicament--Perfume--Colouring Matter--Neutralising and Superfatting Material--Compressing--Cutting--Stamping--Medicated Soaps--Ether Soap--Floating Soaps--Shaving Soaps--Textile Soaps--Soaps for Woollen, Cotton and Silk Industries--Patent Textile Soaps--Miscellaneous Soaps._ _Toilet Soaps._--By the term "toilet soap" is inferred a soap specially adapted for toilet use by reason not only of its good detergent and lathering qualities, but also on account of its freedom from caustic alkali and any other ingredient likely to cause irritation or injury to the skin. Toilet soaps may be simply classified according to their method of preparation into the following four classes:-- (1) Cold process soaps. (2) Settled boiled soaps. (3) Remelted soaps. (4) Milled soaps. Soaps of the first class are of comparatively trifling importance, having been superseded by the other qualities. Details of the "cold process" have already been given on page 46; it is only necessary to add the desired perfume and colouring matter to the soap. The second class consists of good quality settled soaps, direct from the copper, to which have been added, prior to framing, suitable perfume and colouring matter, also, if necessary, dealkalising materials. The third class is represented by soaps made by the old English method of remelting, which are often termed "perfumers'," or "little pan" soaps. The soap-base or mixture of various kinds of soap is remelted in a steam-jacketed pan, or pan provided with steam coils, and agitated. The agitation must not be too vigorous or lengthy, or the soap will become aerated. When all the soap is molten, additions of pearl ash solution are made to give it a finer and smoother texture, render it more transparent, and increase its lathering properties. The necessary colour, in a soluble form, is well incorporated, and lastly the perfume. Owing to volatilisation, much of the perfume is lost when added to hot soap, and it is necessary to add a large quantity to get the desired odour; hence the cheaper essential oils have to be used, so that the perfume of this class of soap is not so delicate as that of milled soaps, although it is quite possible to produce remelted soaps as free from uncombined alkali as a milled toilet soap. Palm-oil soap often forms the basis for yellow and brown toilet soaps of this class. The old-fashioned Brown Windsor soap was originally a curd soap that with age and frequent remelting had acquired a brown tint by oxidation of the fatty acids--the oftener remelted the better the resultant soap.