sal soda

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For instance: Equal parts of soft soap and sal soda, with enough crude carbolic acid to give a strong odor.

From The Apple by Various

Hard water may be softened and rendered suitable for washing, by adding to every twelve gallons of water, about a quarter of a pound of sal soda.

From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott)

Heat the sal soda in a vessel over the fire, add the water boiling.

From Cloud City Cook-Book by Nash, Mrs. William H.

Flush sink drain three times a week with boiling sal soda solution, one pint sal soda to three gallons of water.

From How Girls Can Help Their Country by Low, Juliette Gordon

This should consist of two parts sal soda; three parts borax; four parts castile or other hard soap: all to be melted together over a slow fire.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton